Real growth hurts because you have to kill off who you were. Like a snake shedding skin or a seed breaking apart to become a flower, you shed old habits, environments, and relationships. That discomfort isn't a breakdown. It's the breakthrough.
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Real growth feels like dying. The truth is that in order to grow you must kill off parts of you for new parts to be able to grow in that place. A snake sheds its skin not because it wants to but because it has to. If it doesn't, it will literally suffocate. And that's what personal growth feels like. You'll outgrow your environment, your habits. You'll outgrow probably some relationships. It's tight, it's uncomfortable, but you have to stop running from it. It's necessary because if you're trying to stay the same old you you will eventually destroy the new you that's trying to be born. So if it feels like it's a lot right now, like you're crawling out of your old skin and it's uncomfortable, that's a good thing. You're not breaking down, you're breaking through. So just remember this. For a seed to become a flower it must completely destroy itself first.