Phoenix Process

We have all heard the myths about the phoenix, if not its a legend of a bird: the phoenix who every 500 years or so bursts into flames and dies, only to rise again from the ashes.  The bird becomes a reflection on the bird it once was a the bird it will become.   I think from time to time we need to go through a similar process.  We need to renew ourselves from shattered pieces, from the ashes of a difficult time.  I think sometimes we need to struggle and when we are forced to look at things in our lives and realize we need to accept certain situations.

It is in the darkest moments that we see the light.  Sometimes its in the darkest hours when we think everything is lost that we begin to see things clearer and begin to change ourselves.  We gain a new perspective one things and see not just our situations, but also the world in a new point of view.  We will always find things we need through the process.  We get to the points of burning to ashes in order to see some of these things, to learn more not about the world around, but about ourselves.

We are like the phoenix, we go through moments of transformations, of almost as if we die and become a new person.  A lot of the time we don’t see it as a process of becoming something new WHILE we go through the process but afterwards, when we look back on things we may see how we have changed.  I know looking back on my past, I have seen changes, I have seen how I as a person have changed and my outlook on life has changed.  Almost everything we live through is part of the phoenix process.  Everything we decide and do is a part of the process of becoming something new, something stronger.