The Kind of Person I Want to Be

reflections
Written By Francesca Sciandra
Enjoying a sunny afternoon at the Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington, London

Enjoying a sunny afternoon at the Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington, London

When I moved to London over eight years ago, I underestimated the change I’d experience in this city.

Letting go of ideas of girlhood to become a woman, facing some of my greatest personal challenges, and allowing myself to reconnect with parts of myself I had abandoned. I’m who I always was and someone I never imagined I could be.

We arrive at adulthood when we look in the mirror and ask ourselves, ‘Is this the person I want to be?’ We stop looking for the answer to come from outside us and realise it’s been inside us the whole time.

Then we keep asking the question. When things are easy, when they’re not. When we feel pleasure, when we feel pain. When things go to plan and otherwise.

We ask again and again and make adjustments to realign with a life that takes us to places better than we ever imagined possible.

We walk a path that takes us higher. We transcend ideas of what life was supposed to be. We’re free.

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