MOUNTAIN VILLAGE

Though, for the first time, you feel more like you are your mind and body, not being as stuck to just your mind. Your body changes too. You never overwork it, always respecting it's needs, but still make sure to work hard. It gets harder, like it's more solidly a part of this world, it changes shape, as if you are forging it into who you really are. It feels better, as if matching the love you've showed it. Not only that, but it feels more like yours. Other students join you sometimes, but they change in different ways than you do. After a while, you realize, though you thought your awakening would happen suddenly, this whole experience has been your awakening. Your hair is longer, your clothes feel tighter around your chest, and you can feel every seam of fabric there. Your legs are larger, and you feel like you have a lower center of gravity. Despite all this, you feel more like yourself, and happier to be yourself than you had ever dreamed possible. Then, you realize what your goal you couldn't grasp before had been. And then you realize. And it all makes sense.