I love this piece, Demi. It is timely in this time of change. :)

I especially love that you address how disconcerting, destabilizing or lonely it can feel to shed familiar relationships. Our comfort zone gets rocked and the world can feel so different to exist inside of- but only temporarily!

This process of growth and loss has always been easier to endure by picturing myself as a streamlining comet....travelling ahead on my trajectory through space and time while shedding what no longer serves a…