Not every change you did not choose is working against you. Sometimes the disruption you resisted the hardest turns out to be exactly what was required to move you forward. Here is what three weeks of unexpected change taught me about the habits we hold onto and the ones worth letting go.

Before the roles took over, there was a version of you who reached without asking permission. Who believed that if she decided to be good at something, she would be. That version did not disappear. She got shelved. And shelved things can be taken down.