From the day we are born growth is what is expected of us. Physical growth, mental growth and emotional growth. Growth is something that everyone in our lives have and it is something they encourage from each and every person around them in many many different ways. Our parents watch over our overall growth. They care for us physically by feeding us, clothing us and housing us for the majority of our lives. They also watch out for our emotional growth and well being. Teaching us manners, appropriate behaviours and how to express feelings. Teachers play a big part in our growth mentally (knowledge wise) and emotionally. We spend hours a day with teachers for at least 14 years of our lives which can shape our growth in many ways.
Do you remember being a child and wondering about what it would be like when you were 13 or 20? Did you ever think you were never going to get out of school? Did it surprise you when all of a sudden you were at your Prom or you just turned 21? I just recently was in touch with an old friend. We were very close when we were 16,17 and 18 but lives and situations moved us far apart and we lost contact. Now our children are closing in on the same ages we were when we became friends. Nineteen years has gone by in a blink of an eye. Have we changed? I am sure we have. I would hope we have. We have grown! Those growing years have made such a difference in my life. I may look a little different and act different from many years ago because I needed to have growth to proceed with my life. For me proceeding with my life brought phyical growth, emotional growth and spiritual growth. I have a personality that makes me push myself to progress. I push myself to excel, learn more, understand more. This has been a good quality and a bad quality at times. That same emotion that pushes me to learn more pushes me to set goals and achieve goals. I think having this surgery is another goal I have set. Achieving that goal is quickly approaching but it cannot end there. I must continue to strive for achievement. Another goal must be set.....I don't believe in unrealistic goals so my first goal is 40 lbs. This goal is just part of another stage of my growing years. I am still growing...hopefully not physically....but emotionally and spirtually. When growth stops things become stagnent. We need growth to continue to succeed, to continue to encourage others to succeed. Do you remember the first person you ever really loved as a teenager? Did the rejection or parting feel like it was breaking your heart in two? When you think about that person now how do you feel? I feel priviledged to have known him, to have spent time with him and have grown with him during that stage of my growing years. Now my point is when that heartbreak was happening it was terrible! You thought you were never going to love anyone or anything again. Now years later it can be a happy or even laughable memory. I think that this surgery may be like that first love of your life. You never wanted anything so bad, you were so excited and happy to be with them but when it ended it was so hard, maybe the most difficult thing in your life. This surgery journey is fast coming to an end and it may just be the hardest thing I have ever done in my life but when it is said and done and time has past, the reflection of my growth through that stage of my growing years will be all that counts. I will have succeeded in my goal and moved on to the next goal, the next stage of a whole new journey. I am going to continue to blog so I hope you can all join me and see the growth that is happening in my life. Thank you for reading and encouraging more growth in my life.
Steph
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