APX-IV-0011
“I feel guilty for outgrowing the people around me.”
Growth is not betrayal. You did not leave people behind by improving, you moved. You can love someone and still move. Guilt that keeps you small serves neither you nor them.
Your Practice
Write down the names of the people you feel you've outgrown. For each, ask: am I actually abandoning them, or am I just different now? Identify one way you can maintain a real connection without shrinking yourself. Do that. Keep moving.
The Architects
“I am a citizen of the world.”
Diogenes, Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers VI.63 (Hicks translation); asked where he came from