BECOMING BY KATE WINZELER

At some point, I lost myself along the way. I stopped doing things that made me happy and started doing things that made me fit in. I acted like I thought I should. I spoke like I thought I should. I dressed like I thought I should. Somewhere along the way, I forfeited parts of who I truly was to fit into the mold of who I thought I should be. But this is the year that I broke the mold; the year that I stopped comparing myself to everyone else in order to fit in; the year that I’m slowly becoming who I was made to be.

The truth is that I’m not doing anyone a favor by being anyone but myself. So, here’s to dusting off the parts of me that I buried deep down. Here’s to embracing my own unique flair that I have to offer the world. Here’s to taking risks, to stepping outside my comfort zone, to learning and to growing. Here’s to becoming.