Life is always about becoming

​Yesterday was Dr. Seuss day and I found myself digging through Dr. Seuss quotes. This one spoke to me:

"It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become."

How often do we look at the circumstances in life and feel weighted down by what they are?

How often do we look in the mirror and feel weighted down by who WE are?

The thing we often forget about life is that as long as we are breathing, life is changing. What something is in this moment is not what that something will be a moment from now.

So life isn't - it never has been and never will be - about what life is right now. Life is not about who you are right now. Life is always about becoming.

Here's the power in that truth. It's up to us to breathe either hope or despair into it. It's up to us to decide whether we will feel possibility or defeat in that truth.

Becoming is a reality. As long as we are breathing becoming is not an option.

WHAT we become IS an option.

The hope and energy and vision we bring to what something is today has an awful lot of influence on what that something becomes tomorrow.

Or, I suppose, we simply decide it is what it is....

And in that case, life often decides what we'll become for us.

Which often isn't very becoming.

So breathe hope and possibility into what life is, and rejoice in the magic of watching what it becomes.