The Impact of My Growth

Every day I learn new lessons on what it means to be here, now. For a lifetime, I’ve moved under the auspices of “knowing everything”. From young, I’ve been too smart for my own good - too aware to enjoy most things, too overburdened by what I see to take a deep breath. Life, more often than not has been a pressure cooker of volatile emotions, a sense of feeling othered for my curiosity, of feeling unseen for this reason or that. Today - through trial, error and heartbreak, I have been forced to unlearn more than I would have expected, and while it hasn’t been easy, it has been good. As I grow through this lifetime, I am grateful to see that there are still seeds sprouting. To be reminded that as long as I have breath in my lungs and as long as my hands keep moving, I have a chance to grow. To learn. To be open to both. Even when it’s difficult to put language to, even in my art; I can feel myself growing into the person that I’ve always ached to be. The impact of my growth is the knowledge that even through hardship, and maybe especially through hardship; you can still change for the better. c. Sean Williams, 2025-3033. digital, procreate 2480 X 3508 px, ART ONLY.