Stages of life: what cycles do we need to close?
Life isn’t a straight line - it’s made of chapters. Each phase comes with its routines, its familiar faces, and its rituals. It has its own rhythm, a certain kind of question that gets asked more often, a kind of silence we slowly learn to listen to. But sometimes, it’s hard to accept that one of those chapters has ended. Even when it no longer makes sense to keep flipping through it. And so, we stay stuck on old pages - like someone trying to go back to the beginning of a book that’s already been read. The phases of life can be many things: Childhood, marked by innocence. Adolescence, filled with discovery and growing pains. The start of adult life, where everything feels urgent. Then come the career choices, the relationships we think will last forever, the grief, the moves to new cities, the shedding of old skins, and the shift in purpose. Each phase demands a different version of us. But the truth is, internally, we don’t always keep up with that change. We grow biol...
