Listen.

I’m ready.

There’s no experience you can have that won’t teach you something. You can learn from anything as long as you’re willing to listen. If you listen, there is a lesson just screaming to be noticed. It’s screaming louder than the person you want to be that’s trapped inside of you. It’s screaming louder than your heart as you watch him walk away. It’s screaming to be noticed, like we’re all screaming to be loved.

What have you learned recently? Or what have you been afraid to listen to? What is it that you are humming so loudly for? What is it you are so desperate to tune out? Is it the sound of the lesson that’s chasing you? Or is it the sound of your heartbeat, begging you to hear the name it’s calling. Is it the lesson that you’re running from? Or is it them?

Them. That person that you fought so hard against. The person who made you run to this new experience that you have to learn from now. What about them made you run away? Were you afraid of what they could do to you? Didn’t you trust yourself to stay strong?

If you listen to your lesson, what is it saying? Is it tapping its foot impatiently, checking its watch and thinking about all the time you’re wasting dragging your feet through the dirt? Or is it waiting quietly, sitting with its legs crossed, glancing around casually like it has nothing better to do than wait for you to listen? It all depends on how you approach it. But its answer will be the same, only the manner in which you hear it will change. Edgy or patient, the lesson will be there.

I’m ready to listen to what it’s saying.

 Are you?