# @thesalty.club on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CiaetiLrPfo
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/34256133-thesaltyclub-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2022-09-12T16:41:29.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Salty Club: Surf Fitness (@thesalty.club) — https://gondola.cc/thesalty.club

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When I was 22, I was busting out of my skin trying to find a rhythm of life that made sense to me. My sentence I gave myself, my instruction, my guide, was; ‘burn it all down. Leap and see where you land. Eat the world whole.’
When I was 24, my sentence became; ‘leave and don’t look back.’
Now, at almost 30, my guide is; ‘Stay. Look around you. Look closer. Ground into your life, your people, your responsibilities. Don’t get swept up by the desires of everyone else ‘out there.’ The richness is already here.’
For some of us, leaving is easier than staying. 
For some of us, staying is easier than leaving. 
That can change in our different seasons of life. 
And that’s why we can’t look outward for hard and fast rules. That’s why we can’t really expect one mantra to last us our entire lives. That’s why we can’t really define ourselves so strongly and forever; ‘I’m a nomad. I’m a homebody.’ Maybe you’re both at different stages Where are you holding onto old self-instruction, old mantras? Old rules you’ve given yourself? Where do you need to accept that life has changed? Where you’ve changed? Allow yourself to call in the new. 

@caitlincreeper 

#igpoetrycommunity #poetsofig #womenwhotravel #writersofig 

What was your old mantra? What is it now? Comment below 🤍

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