What would your future look like if you stopped rushing to get there

Always rushing. In my mind. In my body.

That’s been me, more times than I care to admit.

And then, in the rare stillness, the exhaustion hits.

Of course it does.

But strangely, there’s also this quiet eagerness.

To breathe. To be. To start dreaming again.

Not in the far-off, someday kind of way.

I’ve never been one to map out a 10-year plan.

Honestly, the distant future feels like trying to read tea leaves in a cracked glass bowl — blurry, breakable, not all that helpful.

Wishful thinking dressed up as certainty.

But have you ever asked yourself:

‘What would my future look like if I stopped rushing to get there?’

Let that question land.

Because most of us aren’t rushing toward a goal — we’re rushing against time.

Fighting it.

Gripping it too tightly, like if we just move fast enough, we might outrun the fear.

But what if you didn’t?

What if you paused long enough to feel your own pace.

The one that’s true to your body, your energy, your season?

What would your life look like then?

What would (inner)freedom feel like?

I imagine it would feel like a full, grounded exhale.

Like stretching your limbs without guilt.

Like lying down at night without running through your mental to-do list.

Like letting your past stop whispering in your ear every time you try to choose differently.

And here’s the hard truth I’ve had to face lately, sometimes it’s not the rushing that drains us.

It’s the scripts we’re still living from.

The voices we internalized.

The roles we inherited.

The belief that we’re only safe, only good, only worthy… if we do it like they did.

I catch myself echoing my mother’s words, her fears, her patterns — the ones she didn’t know how to name, but lived from anyway.

And I love(d) her. (She passed away) Fiercely.

But I don’t want to carry those patterns forward.

For instance (and especially) not into how I raise and guide my son and daughters.

The world is different now.

They are different.
I am different.

And it’s my job to show up from today.

Not from a playbook written decades ago by women who had fewer choices and heavier expectations.

It’s not easy.

But enabling someone in the name of love isn’t love.

It’s fear.

And I’m choosing clarity over fear.

Boundaries over guilt.

Freedom over legacy.

Because freedom — real freedom — isn’t just about time or rest or space to dream.

It’s about permission.

To do it differently.

To stop performing.

To finally stop defending the version of you that people liked more than the real one.

So ask yourself:

• What would your future feel like if you slowed your pace and started listening in?

• What would your present feel like if you stopped letting the past steer the wheel?

• What would your dreams look like if you gave yourself full permission to imagine more?

When do you actually feel free?

Not surface-level free.

But deep-in-your-bones, unshackled, truth-telling free.

It’s worth asking.

Because the answers won’t come from pushing harder.

They’ll rise up in the stillness you’ve been avoiding.

Let them.
Let them surprise you.
Let them change you.

And maybe, just maybe — let them set you free.

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