✨2022 vs 2012 ✨ Ten years older and ten years wiser My face has leaned out with age, my in between eyelids slowly grew a fold as buccal fat pads depleted, scars formed on my lip after a traumatic dog bite, lines grew faintly around my face, echoes of past feelings and expressions as I lived. In the moment. Lessons have been learned, sometimes painfully, messily, with tears and snot, sometimes with a heart seemingly about to burst with too much love and nowhere to go. I’ve lost fur babies, my sister, a partner, but more have come into my life when I opened my heart. The me ten years ago would be in awe of the me ten years later, still perfecting my self-actualizing, a work that should never end as long as you’re breathing. Always growing, learning, striving to be a better human than the day before. I’ve learned to leave what isn’t for me in the past, to make room for what is for me now. Still working on recognizing my own intrinsic value which was so damaged as a child. Now I know without a doubt my voice and existence matter. We all matter. If you’ve touched one life in a positive way you’ve made a difference and brought light to the world. The me today looks forward to telling more stories, to expanding my heart more, to making whatever difference I can and letting go of what I cannot change. What lessons have you learned in the last decade? #tenyearchallenge #griefjourney #dogbite #scartherapy #asianwoman #personalgrowth #livewithintention #selfactualization (at 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 𝙞𝙨 𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙚) https://www.instagram.com/p/CYuRASCvFPH/?utm_medium=tumblr