"While my oldest friends know who I've been,
my new friends help me understand
who I'm becoming."
(author unknown)
There is great comfort found in the familiar. The ease of returning to complacent surroundings offers us relief and protection from the unknown. Convenience is welcomed over the challenge of experiencing risk. Our intimate supporters encourage us, but they are not necessarily inviting any sense of change in the established routine.
Then a yearning surfaces. Non-descriptive at first, we scan new horizons for just a peak. The longing for change increases even when we try to avoid it. We find ourselves nudged to innocently dabble and before long we are experiencing passion for expansion and change.
Our old friends don't really understand why we would want to alter what we have already established; while people we meet upon the new path are excited and luring us forward. It is in this place with one foot still grounded in the old and the other stretched out into the unknown that individual choice enables us to leap.
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