I found myself telling someone “you’re so in your head, you’re not even enjoying where you are.” And that’s when I realized how long I’ve been telling myself that once I got to the next phase of life, things would finally feel right. Once things slowed down, I figured myself out more, and became a better version of me, life would actually look the way I imagined it. But now I look back and realize how many phases and moments I was there for physically but was somewhere else mentally. I’ve always been thinking ahead, wondering “what’s next”, and trying to get something “better” so that my life could finally feel like mine. But I don’t want to live in the future just to look back at the past one day and realize I was never really present. #selfawareness #innerwork #growth #presence #emotionalpatterns