Every moment represents the choice to be different, to stand up to what you are afraid of, to go in a different direction no matter how set, how stuck. Every breath can represent something new.

This breath can represent a change.

This breath a new direction.

This breath the reclaiming of some dream.

This breath redeeming hope.

Resigned can be a thing of the past. Heartache doesn’t disappear but is replaced slowly, quickly, hard to say. Change travels its own course. Allow yourself to enjoy the process even though it feels different. It is scary; it is tough; notice it and do it anyway.

-- Excerpt from Melanie Lutz's The Bare Melcessities