Becoming

I watched my daughter and her friends graduate from high school last night. 

As I looked at their faces on the stage, I kept thinking of what they will become next. 

Most of them will be college students at first, but then they will become: a finance guy, an actress, a neuroscientist, a physician, a filmmaker, an attorney, an artist, an engineer, a parent, and so many other things. 

Their possibilities are endless. 

They will find their vocations, but also they will discover their inner strength, resilience, determination, commitment, and independence in deeper ways than they have ever known before. 

They will find their soulmates, they will experience accomplishments, they will have disappointments, they will face loss, they will create beautiful things, they will help people, and they will discover many new facets of being human. 

They are on the precipice of becoming who they are meant to become with a liberation from past labels, parent expectations, and the constraints of home. They are discovering new cities, new people, new ideas, and new versions of themselves. 

As I watched each of them enter into their next chapter by walking across that stage, I envied the freedom ahead of them, but I also remembered that we all have this same opportunity to dream and re-invent ourselves.

Every day we are becoming something. 

Every day we are experiencing something new. 

Every day we get to decide how we will live that day. 

These graduates offer us a reminder to step into our own potential no matter our age. The excitement they feel is available to us as well. We just have to remember to tap into our own possibilities each day. 

What is it you wish you could do? 

If you were headed into college for the first time, what would you choose to study?

If you could live anywhere, where would it be?

What do you want to be known and admired for?

Who would be the perfect partner for you?

If money, time, age, education, and practicality weren’t an issue, what would you love to go do or to become? 

Knowing what you know now, what would you tell your 18-year-old self?

Listen to that inner wisdom and start to apply it today. 

There are endless possibilities ahead for my daughter and her friends, as well as for each of us too. We can all explore and expand upon who we are becoming.

Let’s step into the possibilities together, 

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