WHEN GROWTH HURTS .. The hardest part of growing isn't the change - it's watching what once felt like home slowly fade into memory. It's realizing you're drifting from people you thought would stay forever. The conversations feel heavier now, the silence between you louder. You start to see how time stretches people apart. The ones who once felt like your world now feel like old versions of you-and it hurts in ways you can't explain. It's a quiet grief - losing people who are still here, just not here with you anymore. Not aligned with who you're becoming. And without noticing, you start choosing peace over chaos, solitude over noise, truth over comfort. Growth is messy. It breaks you first. But somewhere in that breaking - you rebuild. You soften. You bloom again. Not like before, but with roots deeper, and love truer.