'What Will Be' by Ana Hagins

Finally the day has come when we have to make a change.

We stand at the door that leads to

alien principals such as autonomy and self-reliance,

slowly stepping out of the realm of dependency

into the world where self-sufficiency is required in order to maintain.

But do we look back to what is familiar because we are scared of what is unknown?

No. For living in the past only pauses the present and stops the future.

One of the biggest mistakes we can make in life

is looking to the past as a source of comfort

for the hardships that lie ahead.

Don’t rest on old things

even though that’s all we know.

We are merely human, and subject to imperfection,

but errors lead to discoveries,

and mistakes make experiences.

So stumbling isn’t the sin,

it’s refusing to get back up after you’ve fallen,

and justifying your faults,

that makes you a failure.

It has been said that

“we are scribes of our own stories,”

so let’s not dwell on what was,

but rather, what will be.