Always have the courage
To change, welcoming those voices
That call you beyond your self.*
John O’Donohue

Living things must change on order to stay the same. Or more precisely, living things must change to remain themselves. … Life is the ongoing process of self-making. It is that which continuously changes itself in order to continue being itself.**
David Rome

We change to remain ourselves because
within each of us lie many possibilities,
Many futures:
In a word:
one ought to turn the most extreme
possibility inside oneself into
the measure for one’s life,
for our life is vast and
can accommodate as much
future as we are
able to carry.^

Where to begin?

How about identifying that
most extreme possibility
within you,
And imagining its smallest iteration so that you can
do it.

*John O’Donohue’s Benedictus: At the Threshold of Manhood;
**David Rome’s Your Body Knows the Answer;
^Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters on Life.