Seasons, senses & self: Day 20
Life. You’re born. You learn stuff. Loving, crawling, walking, talking. Climbing, skipping, catching, counting, turn-taking. Reading, writing, adding and subtracting friends. Surviving testing times, success and failure; thriving. New school, new hormones, new height, new shape. Negotiating peer groups, private languages, taking risks; cognitive explosion. Learning to be an adult, experimenting, trying to become yourself. Grand vistas open up – you start climbing – sudden fall. The lone hero finds they need supportive networks. New beginnings, wider horizons, deeper friendships, disappointments. Am I going round in circles? I pause to take stock. I take a detour. Find new goals. Re-evaluate worth. Content?
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