What if the most important thing you build in your lifetime isn't your career, your house, your reputation, or your bank account?
What if it's you?
Every decision is building someone.
The conversations you have.
The promises you keep.
The way you treat people when you're tired.
The things you choose when no one is watching.
You're becoming someone.
I've started keeping a different kind of list.
Not goals.
Not accomplishments.
Just an honest reminder of the person I'm trying to become.
Because the truth is...
Some days I fall short.
Some days my words come too quickly.
Sometimes I react before I take a breath.
Sometimes I hold onto hurt longer than I should.
Sometimes I choose comfort over what I know is good for me.
I'm not writing this because I've become the person I want to be.
I'm writing it because I haven't.
Every morning, I get another chance to choose who I'm becoming.
Not perfectly.
Just intentionally.
Because becoming isn't about arriving.
It's about choosing your direction, again and again.
Who are you becoming?
— soul to salt