This Moment Is the Curriculum 📚

"Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness." — Eckhart Tolle

They left without slamming the door.
No drama. No goodbye speech.
Just silence where their voice used to live,
like someone moved out in the middle of the night
and left the lights on.

I kept checking the mirror
like it might tell me what I did wrong.
It didn’t.
It just showed me my own face,
unpacked, unhealed,
still holding the apology
I never owed.

I used to call this place stuck.
Now I just call it mine.
Some lessons arrive
only after everyone else leaves.

I used to ask why.
Why this? Why now? Why me?

When things fell apart.
When people left.
When the job ended, the friend ghosted, the door slammed.
My brain scrambled to turn chaos into clarity.

"I’m exactly where I need to be to learn what I must."

But it never answered in the moment.
The answers came later.
Usually quiet.
Rarely obvious.
Always earned.

And almost always this:
That wasn’t punishment. That was placement.
I wasn’t being punished.
I was being positioned.
Positioned to confront what I’d been avoiding.
Positioned to grow into what the old version of …