13/10/2025
Sometimes you have to lose it… to finally receive the gifts that were right in front of you all along.⠀
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When we’re in it… the love, the health, the peace, the relationship, the freedom… we rarely recognise or appreciate their magnitude.⠀
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We move through life assuming they’ll always be there. We get comfortable. Distracted. Entitled. Always reaching for more.⠀
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And then life, in its undeniable intelligence, rearranges everything.⠀
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It takes away what we had… not as punishment, but as an awakening.⠀
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It cracks us open… to feel, to sense, to truly see what was there all along.⠀
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At first, it can bring pain. Discomfort. Feelings of worthlessness, powerlessness, or abandonment… a death of the ego.⠀
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But when you surrender and allow yourself to feel it all… when you move through the pain… what waits on the other side is presence, grace, gratitude, and a quiet knowing that can’t be named.⠀
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You begin to receive the gifts, the lessons, the insights within it all.⠀
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Sometimes losing the thing is what finally makes you capable of receiving. To open your heart fully to what life has to offer. To truly receive and appreciate what’s been right in front of you the whole time.⠀
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And then you realise… you never really lost anything. ⠀
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We only gained access to life’s most precious gifts.⠀
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Big love, ⠀
Hayles x