Brick to Marble

0. Growth = loneliness before the breakthrough

1. Growth = conquering dread while resisting the urge to disappear

2. Growth = waiting with intention before carving certainty in stone

3. Growth = the courage to walk away from who you’re not

✦ Growth = choosing meaning over a manufactured utopia

4. Growth = rewriting your life over and over… without shame

5. Growth = control surrendered + self reclaimed

6. Growth = being present in intimacy without any ego

7. Growth = owning the difference between self-expression and self-erasure

✦ Growth = merging your intention and your expression

8. Growth = accepting fear as an ancient part of your DNA, and walking forward anyway

9. Growth = knowing the risk, and still offering your heart

10. Growth = embracing your unshaped self as the starting point of transformation

11. Growth = shaking hands with the shadow that lives in your darkness

12. Growth = accepting the guilt that teaches you something, and releasing the guilt that doesn’t

13. Growth = choosing community over algorithms

14. Growth = code + costume without forgetting the human underneath