When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower. - Alexander Den Heijer

Most people fear change because change brings challenges and challenges bring discomfort. People don't like discomfort, because they are attached to the way things are. Comfort is addictive. It leads to laziness and inaction. It slowly dulls the spirit. It makes us stop growing. Change may bring challenges, but with every challenge comes an opportunity to grow and evolve.

Too many of us believe happiness is a future event. And before we arrive, we need more money first, have a successful career, find a partner, settle down. And only then we will arrive at the destination of happiness. But when we arrive, we will realise happiness isn't there. Happiness is not found at the finish line. There isn't even a finish line. Life is not a race to be finished; it's a dance to be danced.

Sometimes, when we become a friend to ourselves, we become a stranger to others.