fear not for the future, weep not for the past

Sometimes in life, if you're lucky, you will have the pleasure, or displeasure, of being able to pinpoint precise moments that change you. Looking upon my own experiences, I can recall only a handful or less of pivitol seconds where I knew instantly that I would never be the same person I was just seconds earlier. Each of these points of change happened to be the direct result of an actual event, rather than, say, an epiphany. Sometimes these moments are ones of joy, glory, accomplishment and satisfaction. And sometimes, these moments are ones of despair, loss, heartache, and sorrow. Regardless of how these moments make you feel inside, they are all growth inducing, character building, and perspective changing. If you let them, they can all push you to be more resilient, more beautiful, more aware, but you have to be careful. Easily they can destroy you, turn you into a monster, chew you up and then spit you right back out as a shred of nothingness . I have learned very recently that you have to draw what you can from each moment, let the rest go, and then breathe. You won't find wisdom until adversity finds you first.