When you are growing as a person

"When you are growing as a person, you will realize how easy it is to fall back into your old ways. You will realize that no matter how much effort you put in, there's no guarantee that you won't find your old patterns coming back. You will find yourself making the same mistakes again and again and again and feel absolutely shattered. There will only be hopelessness in your heart and the hesitation to accept yourself as you are, even your bad habits and the parts you loathe. You will feel that maybe you aren't capable of growth and you will want to give up. Hang in there, especially in those moments. You don't realize it but the way you are aware of yourself and your old patterns again shows that you are growing in the right direction. Sometimes, we fall back easily to our old habits because there is a familiarity to it. But we all have learnt it the hard way that just because it's familiar doesn't mean it's good. When such days happen, remind yourself why you wanted to be different in the first place. Force yourself to live according to your intentions not habits. It's okay if you fall sometimes as long as you can stand back up again. There are going to be days when it will be a little too heavy, but you have to let yourself drown in that sadness and then swim back to the shore and understand that no matter how comfortable standing still feels, you will have to move on."