Knowing better and doing better don't always go together — and that's okay too.

Life lessons come from doing. We try things on for ourselves, we learn in stages, we discover what hurts by issuing and encountering pain.

How can you learn how you don't want to be if you don't be it?

And once you've learned — how can you commit the lesson to memory without revisiting it?

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You can't avoid your path. Holding yourself hostage to shame and should-haves only serves oppression.

Forgive yourself the journey, and grow from a place of love.

❤️
- S