May 22, 2026- Capacity to fly

You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?

~Rumi

We come into this world with vast, untapped potential. For some, systems get in the way of that potential turning into reality. For most, we do it to ourselves.

We learn to become afraid of failure. We worry about what people will think or say when we mess up. Even worse, our internal dialogue steers us away from the vulnerability of taking on tasks that may be too big for us. We settle into our own little safe space, unwilling or unable to venture out into a brave space.

We can blame society for all of it. We can reflect on opportunities others got that we were never afforded. We can blame the elementary teacher who said we would never be able to _____. But we are our choices.

When opportunity knocks, it is on us to open the door. We can stay inside our comfortable, familiar space, or we can open up that door to growth, to evolution, to our limitless capacity.

We have so much more in us than we can even imagine at this moment, given the limits of our lived experience. Let’s spread our wings and find out where our limits truly are. Let’s open our minds and our hearts to the possibility that we can create the life we dream of, one choice at a time. Let’s believe that we have the capacity to fly.