"Changes and Growth!"

It is so important to acknowledge the changes in your life. It is so important to know that the acknowledgement of changes in your life is the crossroad to progress or regress. My brother asked me the other day "At what point do we grow up?" I thought for a moment and realized i was at my crossroad. This simple and unassuming question held so much weight to my life and for it to present itself at this point, stood as a deciding factor to which road i will decide to continue my journey on. I replied "no one knows exactly the exact point in time when you grow up because it changes... its a matter of personal experiences... When you gain a certain level of awareness from life lessons or obstacles, that is when you can claim a certain level of growth, but from that experience alone, because before you know it, you're facing another obstacle or lesson... As long as you are living life and learning, you're growing."
"Great answer, but when do you choose to grow up... Experience does not mean you're grown."
I replied, "You choose to grow up when you acknowledge what it is that you've learned and move on from it. No, experiences does not necessarily constitute growth... it's what you do with the acknowledgement that dictates your growth." And i pondered on my own response for quite some time... The road ahead is lonely and hard... but no one ever said that growing up was going to be easy...

...Life presents itself in its most ominous hours. When one chooses the road less traveled or the road that meanders into hidden corners, stay focused because at the end there will be so many inner journeys to share with the self and with those looking for guidance...Aaza