Sonya Matejko

I’ve collected roses and unread text messages. I’ve gathered first-date stories and last-date comedies. I’ve assembled big hopes and crumbled big dreams.

Today, I am inspired to slow down differently. Because in the frequency of calm, I am learning that there’s more than one way to steady your pace.

Social distancing isn’t something to ignore, but it’s also not an excuse to ignore your support system. ⁣⁣

We’re the ones who get to enjoy every angle, gradient, tilt, and perspective life has to offer. We may have coffee stains and hair that never stays in place, but we’re the lucky ones in the end.

In this life, we fall and we rise, we twist and we turn, and throughout all of it, we love and we learn.

Of course it’s still nice to get validation and affirmation from people you trust, but it’s transformation to be able to offer yourself that affirmation and let it be enough.

⁣Why is it that we are scared to say our dreams out loud, to stand in our power, and to tell the world that we are worthy of every little bit of it?⁣⁣

It’s okay to doubt your ideas, your choices, or your actions, but none of that should ever lead to you doubting yourself.

How I love these mornings when it feels like the rest of the world is waiting for you to decide who you want to be today.

I search for my muse in the eyes of strangers and in the corners of cities, wondering which way my story will go.⁣

If you’re still afraid, that’s good. It means you know you can do it.

Look for the love that carries your heart and cradles to your soul. Look for the love that guides you and holds you and heals you. ⁣

⁣Too often—way too often—we fear letting ourselves shine because that means letting ourselves be seen.

Maybe today is the you that you needed to chase your dreams. Maybe today is the you that you needed to remind yourself to rest. Maybe today is the you that you needed to meet to find love for the changes in your heart. 

The only reason you have these questions is because the universe has always supplied you with the answers. You’ve had it in you all along. 

Maybe you needed change to find your purpose. Perhaps you needed change to find your person. Or maybe you needed that change to find yourself.⁣

Look up and remember your potential. Remember your worth. Remember that if you can make falling an art, rising will become your masterpiece.⁣

When no one or nothing is distracting you from that doorbell ringing, that’s when you can invite in the things that really resonate with your higher self.