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A Place In-Between

A scary place full of endless opportunities.

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A Place In-Between

A place in between safe and independent, between love and recovery, a place between fear and hope. This is a place that many people find themselves in several times in their life. It is a place between stages in our life. A scary place that puts us in a state of confusion, hopelessness, and fear of the future.

We all find ourselves in this place; after finishing college before finding a job, after making a major life decision that may have ended a big opportunity for us, after a break up that knocks us off our feet. But it does not have to be a scary place, it can be a place full of open doors, endless opportunities and options for us to make a next step in our life.

It is this in between place, that we all fear, but we rarely see the beauty of it. It is a time to be able to change our life in one way or another. It is a place were we can truly evaluate our lives and what we want to do with it, a place that allows us to make decisions that will now benefit us.

Failing at one thing, means that you can succeed at another, something more fit for you, that will make your life worth something more. Changing your course may be the best change you could make for your life.

We fear this in-between phase so much that we avoid being in that place at all cost. We fear not knowing what our lives will become, what we will do next, or where we will end up. So we stick with what we know, what we have, even if it is not something we like, something we know we don't want our life to become, and we do it just to avoid the in between place.

Life is much to short to not be happy, life is too precious to live and do something that we do not enjoy, to stick with something that brings us down.

Deciding what is next in life is such a wonderful opportunity that many do no get. And yet, we fear making that decision. It is a scary thing, trying to plan what you want in your life, for the rest of your life. But then again, who says it has to be for the rest of your life?

The in-between place, the place with no certain end result, the place that we can change our lives in major ways, improve our lives in major ways. This is the place that we hate being but it is the best place to be when your life is not heading in the direction you imagined it to be. This is the place that can change everything, that can be the start of something new and exciting, that puts our lives in the path we want it to be going.

It is a scary thing, not knowing what is coming next, now knowing what your life will becoming, not knowing where you are headed, just not knowing. But that place where the decisions are made, that is the place where you can make your life what you want it to be, what you imagined it would be. The hardest part in figuring out exactly what it is you imagined your life would be.

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