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rising stars.

one day, you will realize how you failed to consider, that perhaps, what came so easily to the others while they had the spotlight, was all they had. and you, with so much else to be grateful for, chose to expend precious energy on envy.

should have just let them have it. should have been humble enough then, as you are now, to believe they must have deserved for their star to rise, finally and for once. you were envious and now you wish you hadn’t been. wishing you would have let them have their blessings in that moment, now that you understand what it’s like to be extremely blessed, barely deserving, and unable to conceal your light. hoping the world doesn’t object too strongly and want it taken from you. we didn’t have to referee our own game. we didn’t have to wish upon another person’s rising star.

we do not need time to become wise. we can humble ourselves now. we can ask forgiveness for believing that envy alerts us to blessings unfairly withheld. we can find, hidden within loss and rejection, the gifts of better and more aligned. we are free to open our eyes, hearts and minds to a universe that continues to unfold, provides lessons in patience, and blesses each of us in divine timing.