Life is like the ocean—always moving, always changing.
Waves come and go, currents shift, and before we realize it, we find ourselves in a different place than where we started.
I felt it after a simple moment at the pool.
That moment…
The realization that I am no longer the center of my daughter’s world.
I am still her support system, her home, her refuge, her safe place, and her unconditional love.
But I am no longer her center.
At first, it felt like a heavy wave, then something unexpected happened.
Instead of feeling empty, I felt space.
Not emptiness.
Space.
Space that had been waiting for me all along.
Almost overnight, life started opening little windows.
A Pilates class, yoga at the beach, a group of women gathering to walk, move, meditate, laugh, and grow.
Nothing extraordinary.
Yet everything felt different. Not because the opportunities were new.
Because I was.
Life has a strange way of moving us when it’s time.
Sometimes it’s a soft wave that whispers.
Sometimes it’s a strong one that pushes.
And sometimes it’s an internal current—quiet and unseen—pulling us inward or carrying us somewhere we didn’t yet know we needed to go.
I’ve felt that push before.
Years ago, when I moved to this country, I had to learn how to stand on my own two feet.
What felt uncomfortable at the time became one of the greatest gifts of my life.
Now life is speaking again.
Through my daughter.
“You don’t have to do everything with me.”
Uff.
That one stayed with me.
Not because it hurt.
Because it was true.
When they grow, they start becoming who they are meant to be.
And as they grow, we begin to remember who we were meant to be too—slowly redirecting our boat toward that dream port we once set aside.
Growth is not becoming someone new.
It is remembering who we were before the world asked us to be everything for everyone else.
None of this was here two weeks ago.
Or perhaps it was.
The opportunities were already outside my window—quiet, patient—waiting for me to open it and let them in.
A soft current I hadn’t noticed before.
Now carrying me toward places I was always meant to arrive.
Maybe Wave 38 isn’t about no longer being the center of someone else’s world.
Maybe it’s about realizing we can finally become the center of our own.
-TodayWaves
Have you ever spent so much time caring for others that you forgot to make room for yourself, only to realize that what felt like an ending was actually life opening a window to a new beginning?
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