Quotes About Transition

Life is a series of natural changes. Resisting change only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

I'd had a less tumultuous transition from childhood to adulthood, but somewhere in my twenties I feel like I got stalled in the process and now I'm drifting, marking time without any great passion to move forward.

Everyone's childhood is strange. It prepares you for the strangeness of adulthood." Riley

You had a strange childhood." "Everyone's childhood is strange. It prepares you for the strangeness of adulthood.

Grandma moved in with my mom and dad when Grandpa went upstairs to live with Jesus.

It's like they had early aspirations that didn't turn out and eventually they settled into a comfortable undemanding existence.

You're thinking I wasn't in a hurry to get out into the real world? On the contrary. The real world is where you find it.

I watched her for a long time, memorizing her shoulders, her long-legged gait. This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and walked away in high heels. They pretended they weren't crying, that it wasn't the worst day of their lives. That they didn't want their mothers to come running after them, begging their forgiveness, that they wouldn't have gone down on their knees and thanked god if they could stay.

here, here is my dark world. you carry it for a change. im out

Dawn has a way of casting a pall on any night magic.

This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and walked away in high heels. They pretended they weren't crying, that it wasn't the worst day of their lives.

I had been moving too fast. I had been too hungry to become a woman.

In stages, that's how. First you let go of the things you loved.

I liked the shifting colors of groups on the courtyard, but could not distinguish one student from the next. They were too young and undamaged, sure of themselves. To them, pain was a country they had heard of, maybe watched on a show about on TV, but one whose stamp had not yet been made in their passports. Where could I find a place where my world connected to theirs?

The future was a white fog into which I would vanish, unmarked by the flourish of rustling taffeta blue and gold. No mother to guide me. I

It made me feel dizzy, like I wanted to grab hold of something heavy and hang on. This was the life I was going to be living, everyone separated from everyone else, hanging on for a moment, only to be washed away. I could grow up and drift away too. My mother might never know where I was, and in a few years, if someone asked her about me, she might shrug like this and say, "Haven't seen her in two, three years.

I was graduating in two months, but I wasn't to Pitzer, that was for sure. I was the old child, the past that had to burned away, so my mother, the phoenix, could emerge once again, a golden bird rising from the ash.

That was how you did it. You let go, you left all that behind, you refused to remember. You let the dark in.

if you can't adapt yourself to living in a mental hospital how do you expect to be able to live 'out in the world'? How indeed?

I didn't feel comfortable with this new world. My northern isolation had protected me from all this.

After my 12th, my parents moved to Bangalore while I moved to Mumbai to study Economics at Sophia College. Much unlike other girls who managed to evade the curfew and organised the slips to get out of college, we would attend college and were interested in academics.

In my situation, unlike some players who retire because they have no choice - either teams don't want them or injuries have caused them to retire, and they just can't do it - for me, I really had never thought I would give out mentally before I gave out physically, but I think that was the case.

Unlike the Soviet Communist party, the Chinese Communist party chose to introduce capitalism.

Unlike people, companies outlive their founders and their leaders.