It’s that time when many of us get together with loved ones, eat too much chocolate and hunt Easter eggs with the little ones.
But with all the festivities, there’s so much more to it than the surface fun and regalia.
It’s a time of rebirth, healing and change.
We begin to embrace warmer weather, changing seasons and more sunlight.
Sometimes, the biggest change we can ever undergo is our own.
However we got there, whatever the reason and journey..
Pain, struggle or strife.
We have a choice.
To fully embrace the change and growth to uncover the person we are meant to become.
Truly, we don’t have to do anything if we are content with the place we are at.
But I realized not so long ago that I didn’t like the person staring back at me in the mirror.
I had tried to rationalize, escape and avoid the realIty of who I’d become..
And it was an ugly truth.
One that I didn’t even recognize for all the wrong reasons.
I know that I can’t be that person if I ever want to be truly happy.
I owe it to myself more than anything to grow and evolve.
Instead of anger, bitterness and negativity, I have to shift my mindset.
Love, honesty and positivity-
Things I had been ignoring for far too long.
The hardest part isn’t the realization, but starting the journey.
I won’t say it isn’t scary, hard or painful, because it’s all of those things and more.
But what hurts even more is staying in a place where you never should have ended up.
So I’m turning the page and starting a new chapter.
I might even start a new book, who knows?
That’s the beauty and the challenge of it all:
It’s up to me.
I decide where I’m going, what I’m doing and the person I’m becoming.
It’s going to be full of painful steps and hard lessons, but I know that’s the direction I need to go.
I don’t know where I’ll end up, but I’m going to take each day one at a time.
I’ll stumble and fall, crash and get hurt, but I know that I’m doing what I need to do.
I’m writing my story the way I should have, all along.
Beautiful, changed and one day soon, happy.
After all, we all deserve happiness in our lives.
My journey starts today.
See you on the other side of the horizon.
We got this.

© Ken Thuranira