"Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing
is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong."
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Holidays tend to provoke a self-assessment of how we will present to our families. Will we don an old costume, sliding back into out grown roles or will we wear attire that reflects creative movement forward. Perhaps we adjust our dialogues to slide back into safe conversations or try new genres to side step the past.
Change is inevitable, and we may no longer be who our family wants us to be. They may want the security of old roles with everyone in his or her designated place. Evaluate the audience determining how much to reveal. Remain confident in personal progress, but do not agree to sit in front of the firing squad.
Building pressure can be released by getting on the floor and playing with a child, petting the family pet, or gazing out the window in hopes of seeing a bird. Breathe and resist being frozen in place. If we discover the space to be intolerable, perhaps it is time, with grace, to leave where we no longer belong.
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