You are not chasing a dream.
You are remembering a truth.
The life you want isn’t somewhere out there on hold, arms crossed, watching to see if you’re worthy.
It’s not a reward for how much you suffer or how long you wait.
It’s not keeping score.
It’s calling.
Softly. Boldly. Repeatedly.
And not because you’re broken or lacking or behind,
but because you’ve always been the one it chose.
Even before you believed in yourself.
The relationships you long for—the ones where you don’t have to shrink to be loved?
They’re not figments of fantasy.
They are reflections of the love you’re learning to give yourself.
The abundance that keeps tugging at your spirit isn’t a tease—it’s a truth.
It’s not waiting on your perfection. It’s waiting on your permission.
Let that sink in.
The life you want is not somewhere down the road.
It’s knocking now.
And it doesn’t want you half-healed or always “on.”
It wants the real you.
The messy, brilliant, work-in-progress you.
The you who finally said:
“I don’t have to wait to be chosen.
I choose me now.”
Because alignment isn’t found in forcing things into place.
It’s found in trusting that your desires aren’t random.
They’re instructions.
Reminders of who you’ve always been beneath the conditioning, the silence, the survival.
And I know—
some days, the gap between here and there feels like too much.
But maybe the gap is not a punishment.
Maybe it’s a runway.
Maybe you’ve been getting ready to rise.
So take one bold step today.
Say yes to the next chapter.
Not because you’ve figured everything out,
but because deep down, you know the life you want
has been waiting for you to want it back.
The Soft Power Journal 