After trying to come up with all the reasons why I should stay, I didn't come up with much. The answer I kept coming back to was: leave.
"And my prayer is that your story will have involved some leaving and some coming home, some summer and some winter, some roses blooming out like children in a play. My hope is your story will be about changing, about getting something beautiful born inside of you, about learning to love a woman or a man, about learning to love a child, about moving yourself around water, around mountains, around dear friends, about learning to love others more than we love ourselves, about learning oneness as a way of understanding God. We get one story, you and I, and one story alone. God has established the elements, the setting and the climax and the resolution. It would be a crime not to venture out, wouldn’t it?
It might be time for you to go. It might be time to change, to shine out. I want to repeat one word for you: Leave.
Roll the word around on your tongue for a bit. It is a beautiful word, isn’t it? So strong and forceful, the way you have always wanted to be. And you will not be alone. You have never been alone. Don’t worry. Everything will still be here when you get back. It is you who will have changed.”
Donald Miller,
Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road
I asked myself if leaving was a form of running away, perhaps from a
job, an apartment, a life of responsibilities. But exploring is not
running away. It is looking for a reason to keep going.
"One fine day, it will be your turn. You will leave homes, cities and
countries to pursue grander ambitions. You will leave friends, lovers
and possibilities for the chance to roam the world and make deeper
connections. You will defy your fear of change, hold your head high and
do what you once thought was unthinkable: walk away. And it will be
scary. At first. But what I hope you’ll find in the end is that in
leaving, you don’t just find love, adventure or freedom. More than
anything, you find you."
The Staying Philosophy
My hope is that in going, I will find a reason to come back.
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Sometimes, the only thing left to do is leave. But whenever you leave one place, you come to another place - so it is leaving, or coming?
ReplyDeleteMaybe, it's not that the only thing left to do is leave, but that the only best thing to do is come - to another place.