Skips Beats Races • I need to stop thinking of "growing up" as something that results in a final destination.

I need to stop thinking of “growing up” as something that results in a final destination.

Every day we have a chance to be who we want to be, live how we want to live, and do what we want to do.

Not everything we must do is going to be fun or part of where we want to end up, but if we are doing it then it is necessary for some reason.

For the last few years I have had the joy of realizing, when down time came along, that I have done a lot of “growing up” over the preceding however-long period of time. But, it’s not that I’ve done any growing up, it’s just that I’ve been living: making mistakes, contributing to successes, enjoying happiness and sadness, and learning from the highs and lows of everything that happens to me, for me, about me, or around me.

We don’t wake up one day and realize we are “grown up”. We keep on living, learning, changing, adapting, and becoming who we want to be. Or, we stop, and we become what we never wanted to end up.

Here’s to living.