“Life transitions are like trying to ride a bull at a rodeo. Everyone’s watching. You’re so scared you slightly pee yourself. If you can hold on for just eight seconds, it’s considered an outstanding accomplishment. And when you fall, it’s going to hurt like hell.” – Paul Angone, All Groan Up: Searching For Self, Faith, and a Freaking Job!
We talk about life transitions like they’re so simple. So light and breezy.
I’m just going through a bit of a transition.
No big deal, right?
Wrong.
Life transitions are a huge deal and sometimes the toughest seasons of life to go through.
You call your girlfriend and she says those four dreaded words — “We need to talk.”
A birth. A death. College graduation. Someone gets sick. Someone moves. You move. Your sanity moves.
Transitions can come like a punch in the gut when you’re looking the other way.
Or the transition is more gradual and less glaring. Every day “the way it’s always been” slowly begins to change and you are forced to change with it.
In every major transition you’re not only breaking up with a season of your life; you’re breaking up with a version of yourself.
Life in your 20s can especially feel like one perpetual transition. You have no idea where you’re going, yet you’re sure you can’t stay here…
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