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This Week's Journal
Is your Life In the In-Between?
I was on a plane back from New York to San Francisco looking out the window and suddenly I realized...
I don't know which one is home anymore.
I love New York. The energy. The people. The feeling that anything is possible.
It feels like my new life. The woman I was always meant to be.
And then I land in San Francisco.
My kids. My family. My home. The people who mean everything to me.
But SF is also where life broke me.
The streets that know my story. The memories. The ghosts of heartbreak that still find you, even when you're happy. Even when you've moved on.
You can love where you're going and still feel the weight of where you've been.
That's the life in between.
You're building something beautiful while quietly grieving something that no longer exists.
You're excited about the future, but certain places and memories still take you back.
And I think so many of us are living here.
The founder starting over after failure.
The mom rediscovering herself.
The person rebuilding after a relationship they thought would last forever.
You can miss something without wanting it back.
Maybe happiness isn't about completely leaving your old life behind.
Maybe it's learning to love the person you're becoming while making peace with the person you used to be.
Maybe that's what the in-between is really about.
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