Warren Falkenstein

Be gentle with yourself. 🤍 We learn from old choices, old moments, and old versions of ourselves, wishing we had known then what we know now.

But life doesn’t work that way.

Some wisdom can only be earned by living through it.

Some lessons can only be understood after your heart has been broken, after you’ve made the mistake, after you’ve taken the long way home.

You were making the best decisions you could with the awareness you had at the time.

That version of you wasn’t foolish.

That version of you was learning.

So please, stop carrying guilt for knowledge you had not yet been given.

Forgive yourself for not knowing sooner what only time could teach you.

Then thank the person you used to be, because they carried you through the chapters that shaped the person reading these words today.

You are allowed to grow.

You are allowed to change.

You are allowed to give yourself the same grace you so freely give to everyone else.

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