{"id":31175,"date":"2015-08-20T14:19:56","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T18:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wanderlust.com\/?p=31175"},"modified":"2015-10-02T18:00:39","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T22:00:39","slug":"dance-never-grown-up-growing-tasha-blank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wanderlust.com\/ja\/journal\/dance-never-grown-up-growing-tasha-blank\/","title":{"rendered":"Dance It Out: \u201cYou\u2019re Never Grown Up, Only Growing\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember when you were a kid and everyone wanted to know what you wanted to be when you grew up?<\/p>\n

And you’d be all,\u00a0Astronaut!<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>
\n(Actually, I wanted to be\u00a0Jem<\/a>.\u00a0I’d line up my stuffed animals, turn up my boombox and point it at them. Clearly not much has changed.)<\/p>\n

We’re not kids anymore, but most of us don’t consider ourselves astronauts, and a lot of us still think we have to figure out what we’re supposed to be.<\/p>\n

First of all:\u00a0<\/strong>
\nThere is no “supposed to.”
\nK?<\/p>\n

Second:<\/strong>
\nHow much energy would you free up if you stopped trying to figure it out?
\nHow much more available would you be to what’s actually in front of you?
\nThe only opportunities in the entire universe exist right here, right now.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Third:<\/strong>
\nNo one ever figures it out.
\nYou will never “arrive.”
\nThat’s not how time + space work.\u00a0The second you think you\u2019ve got it handled is the moment you stop exploring an existence that is, by nature, ephemeral. Keep asking the questions. Don’t fixate on the answers. Anyone who tells you they have them is lying. Don’t believe me.\u00a0S<\/strong>tay fascinated.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fourth:<\/strong>
\nLife is an adventure and then you die.
\nYou’re never grown up, only growing.
\nLive to the point of tears, dance your ass off daily,
\nand be unrelentingly\u00a0generous along the way.<\/p>\n