10 Ways You’re Becoming the Woman You Once Admired from Afar

  • Publish date: Sunday، 02 November 2025 Reading time: 1 min read

1. You don't shrink anymore

2. No is a full sentence

3. Your own company is… nice

4. You let go of things that weren't for you

5. You see other women as allies, not rivals

6. Your style is finally yours

7. You stop explaining yourself

8. Small joys are the big joys

9. You handle the hard stuff differently

10. You forgive your younger self

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It's weird but— I was just thinking about this the other day.

You know how you used to have that one person— a woman you'd see, maybe at work or online, and she just seemed… so put together. So sure of herself. And you'd think, wow, I wish I could be like that. Honestly.

Not in a jealous way. More like… aspirational.

And then one day you kind of wake up and it kinda hits you that you're not looking at her from so far away anymore.

I mean, you're becoming her. It’s happening.

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