Growth

People constantly use this word, but i always find it hard to know when to use it. We hear 'this year i want to grow spiritually' or my 'business to grow' or 'my art to grow'. It always seems to concentrate itself as we approach every new year when people make resolutions to better themselves and their lives. But do we ever question ourselves what 'growth' is to us personally? beyond its meaning that we have been taught it is? Do we ever sit down, with all the cluster in our mind of past hurts, disappointments and regrets, pain, and also the best moments, examine what all this has taught us, or led us, before we wish for this growth? Isn't this process of evaluation in its capsules, embedding this sense of growth? Its like we want to grow yet we don't want to see where we are growing from. This also makes it possible for you to see if the events in your life have become a pattern, just so you break it or you do not repeat the same mistakes. This desire for growth, must mean that the more you wish for elevation, more experience, more money, with all this comes even more challenging obstacles and do we ever say 'Am i ready' to give my life this seed of growth, and watch it, nurture it, accept it however it manifests itself with no sense of expectation that it should be in some imagined form we would like it to be. Does growth mean 'what we want' or simply the lessons we get from whatever happens in our life, be it materialistic or not and use it to the best of our ability.  I guess its a personalized definition. But what the elapsed year taught me is to be grateful for every single situation, because in every single one of them, I can possibly grow. Remember the present moment is all we have to make a path of fulfilled dreams and aspirations.