What makes a person realize their potential?  What makes a person realize who they are?  What makes a person an adult…the person that they will become?  Are we ever fully developed?  I hope I always continue to grow and learn….but I started to think about all of the things that I went through and challenged myself with…all of the places I went and people I met in order to really feel like I know who I am as a person…It really makes me wonder about the teenagers who think that they have the rest of their live planned…or the adults that only have the reason for being where they are in life as that is what they have always planned for themselves…but how can you know where life is going to take you..if you don’t allow for the things that happen in life that you can’t account for…think about all of the opportunities that people miss out on..all of the growing experiences, all of the new people, all of the life experience stories…all of the things that build a person’s character.  I feel bad for these young kids moving in together…thinking that they have met their soul mate even though they have never been outside of their home town, have never had a chance to discover who they are as an individual, but will simply settle for what came easy to them….

Maybe that’s how midlife crisis breakdowns happen…all of these people who realize that they never lived for themselves, jumped right into living with someone and living in a relationship…maybe even a family.  I think that a relationship and a family are beautiful things, but I don’t know how you can continue to be happy in any relationship if you don’t know who you are first….

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