Glow by Lady E

I was always rushing. Always moving from one thing to the next, as if there was something waiting for me just ahead— something I didn’t want to miss. And maybe that was true. But what I didn’t realize then— was how much I was already missing. They say stop and smell the roses. But they also say life is too short. So I chose movement. I filled my days. Tried to see more. Do more. Experience more. To do as much as I can.  I thought that was what it meant to live fully. But rushing has a cost. Not loud. Not obvious. just enough that beauty passes through your day without ever landing in it. I’ve walked past places I now stop for. Sat in spaces I never really saw. Lived entire days without a single moment fully arriving. Because I was already thinking of the next thing. The next place. The next task. The next version of “better.” And in doing that— I trained myself not to receive what was already here. Looking back, perhaps I had missed s...