A Spark by Innocent Mwatsikesimbe from The Vision, chapter 56
“You know that you're better than you were when you see the flaws of the old you. An inability to recognize your own flaws reveals that you are not yet above them; that you are still caught up in your own wrong ways.”
by Innocent Mwatsikesimbe — from The Vision, chapter 56
The walk-through
Growth is hard to measure from the inside, so here is a marker you can check: noticing the faults of who you used to be. Seeing them is the evidence — you only recognise what you have climbed above.
The reverse holds too, and it stings a little. “An inability to recognize your own flaws reveals that you are not yet above them” — still caught up in the old ways, so still unable to see them.
Innocent reads this the way you read weather. A season in a life leaves signs, and when you see them “you know what season you are leaving and what season you are entering.” Letting someone hurt your feelings and learning self-love from it is one sign. Waking up with something you love to do is another. Noticing your old flaws is not self-reproach, then. It is a season changing.
AI-composed from Innocent's text, reviewed and refined by Innocent.
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