Before you transition, stop existing and start living. Tell the people you love that you love them. Watch a sunrise without rushing. Forgive yourself for being human. Fall deeply in love with something. Learn how to let go. Be still. Leave people better than you found them. One day none of us will care about the numbers. We will only care whether we truly lived while we had the chance.
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The Author’s Perspective: When the Mirror Stops Reflecting the Familiar
Looking at unexpected snapshots of myself, I did not recognize the person looking back. After years of caregiving, loss, and feeling like an orphan on earth, the face in the photos simultaneously said “this is who you are now” and “who are you now?” This is the quiet, tear filled space of delayed grief and spiritual becoming, where the outer form no longer matches the inner knowing, yet I remain a child of God, fully known even when I do not yet fully know myself.