Who’s Driving This Thing?

July: On FamilyJuly 6As you grow, as seeds of independent thought and choice sprout in your mind, and as you are able to shelter and feed yourself, things inevitably change. Sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. Again—neither good nor bad, just life. And as you meet people who show you different perspectives and teach you different ways of life, your heart opens up to the fact that should you desire to, or for your own health and well-being, should you need to—you have the ability to create a new family of your own. This can be through friends, partners, lingering artifacts from the family you were born into—it can be a beautiful collage of existing relationships or it can be a painting on a blank canvas that you sat down to paint without even knowing how to hold a brush.And this family, whether you were born into it or created it—should and must give you hope.Though you were brought here helpless and at the whims of fate, just remember there comes a time when you will have the power to push fate aside and take the reins.Reflection title: Who’s Driving This Thing?Creative inspiration:  Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and RuinReflection Question: Am I helpless and at the whims of fate when it comes to my family? Or am I in control of my own life?