37. #Growth
#Growth is inevitable. #Growth is natural. #Growth is True.

I’ve recently met with 2 friends. One sort of famous. Nationally. The other had fled the country 7 years ago and built a life in London. Both of them had confessed to having noticed some sort of self #growth, looking back. But felt as if the rest of us had settled. For who-knows-what.
So, I started thinking.
I’m not in the same place I was 10 years ago. I’ve been through endless self-development processes. More or less consciously. We all do. But there is one tiny-tiny difference…
Intensive vs. Extensive #Growth
Yes, from economical perspective to the very least, we experience different kinds of #growths. So, why wouldn’t that work in terms of personal development, too?
What both my friends did was to discover a passion or a path and commit to it. Inevitably, in 10 years, you #grow. Intensively. On that vertical axis. From level to level. You have this main skeleton a.k.a. skill set and develop on that. And you get to see results more clearly.
On the other side, the rest of us who keep trying out stuff, we #grow in several directions. Extensively. On a horizontal axis. From experience to experience. We have a main idea and we add to that. Results are not necessarily clear and everything seems as if it’s a whole mess. Don’t know about you, but I still hope, at some point, it’ll all make sense.
Now, obviously, I won’t discredit any of them.
Growing up. What kind of #growth is that?
Did you know that, sociologically, there’s such a thing called The BirthDay Effect? It’s that phenomenon according to which, parents and kids, too, (usually after puberty) start narrowing the people invited to their children’s birthday party by race and gender.
Apparently, #growth comes with race and gender consciousness and biases. Unconsciously. I’d dare say that’s when TV catches up with us. TV and the conservation instinct. Fear of life kicks in. Fear of #growth. There’s nothing more terrible than that. But when you get to face it, it looses strength and disappears.
So, have a chat with your #growth.
Look it in the eye and ask where’s it heading? Is it healthy or unsustainable? And is it sure it wants to do that — expand? Intensively? Extensively?
#Growth is inevitable. Indifferent of its horizons and directions and determinants. #Growth, unlike many things, just happens. Whether we’re attentive enough to notice it or not.
And… Whether we give it credit it or not.
Thanks tons for reading this,
~ D.
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Other #100NakedWords I’ve written so far:
#Again|#Thoughts|#Breeze|#All|#Happy|#Island|#Still|#Like|#Tired|#Anchor|#Stand|#About|#Meaning|#Relationships|#Boys|#Purpose|#Forgiveness|#Inspiration|#Allow|#Listen|#Break I|#Dream|#Break II|#Time|#People|#Places|#Loosing|#Calling|#Grit|#Rain|#Experiment|#Motivation|#Wait|#Courage|#Heart|#Determination
Past #100NakedWords attempts:
#Loop|#Rhythm|#If someone took writing away from me

