The Four Moments of Growth Series: eBook Edition

The Four Moments of Growth is a 4-part eBook series created in response to the 2021 Medium Writer’s Challenge. Using the prompts Work, Death, Space, and Reentry, I wrote four interconnected pieces that explore growth through different lenses.

Inside, you’ll find reflections on the meaning of work, the weight of loss, the vastness of space, and the challenge of reentering life after change—all tied together by a search for what it means to grow.

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Preview the first part below:

"It’s difficult to see things clearly when your eyes are closed.

We say we waste a third of our lives sleeping, but our eyes aren’t really closed when we dream. In fact, in many ways, they are wide open.

It’s ironic that we work to find purpose, to find freedom, or to survive because work already is purpose, freedom, and survival.

We live in a means to an end, but the end never comes. Not in the way that we think it will anyway. So we may sleep for a third of our lives, but we live with our eyes closed for much longer than that."