"Growth is the art of becoming someone your past self would be proud of and your past circumstances could not have predicted." The circumstances said this is what is available. This is the ceiling. This is who people like you become. This is the story already written for someone starting where you started. She ignored the circumstances. Built past the ceiling. Became something the starting point had no language for. And her past self. The one who survived the circumstances. Who held on in the difficult seasons. Who kept going when stopping would have been so much easier. That version. Would look at this one. And feel something close to disbelief. And something even closer to extraordinary overwhelming completely earned pride.