Growth. It used to be an option. Now, it’s a mandate. Personal development gurus claim its unlocking is necessary to achieving bliss. Corporate overlords demand it for strategies and operations. Everyone in between has facts and figures ready to demonstrate its irrefutable existence. But what’s rarely discussed are the stages of growing. Because those hurt.
Remember growing pains? Not the show, elder millennials. I mean the actual throbbing in your prepubescent shins. The ones that came out of nowhere and could wrack your entire 12-year-old being. They were awful. Sometimes they were so bad that they would wake you up in the middle of the night. Interestingly, experts aren’t sure why they happen. However, the ache is undeniably uncomfortable and also clearly associated with the growth process. We know this because they vanish once we are physically grown.
After that point, change remains constant, but growth becomes a choice. At least in theory. There’s lots of chatter about wanting to grow and the excitement attached to expansion. Yet it seems there’s much less…
