#thelitbit // Becoming

Becoming  by Michelle Obama

I had a feeling I’d love this book because I mean, Michelle Obama. But I loved it more and in different ways than I originally expected from a memoir.

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

It’s almost crazy how timely certain books come into your life. “She’s speaking to me,” I thought. As someone who got achiever as her number one strength in strengthsfinder 2.0, this doesn’t come as a surprise.

Anecdotes expertly flow and weave through each timeline and story, all playing its part in the entire circle. With each section of Becoming (me, us, more), it is enlightening and empowering to learn of Michelle’s story, struggles, triumphs, resilience, hope, and optimism. An optimism that resonated then and continues to resonate in the potential within all of us. That continuous, forward motion of progress and becoming.

Michelle Obama, you are a model for us all and living proof that despite circumstances, we all have the potential to rise above and meet our unique potential.

Noteworthy excerpts:

"Now I think it’s one of the most useless questions an adult can ask a child—What do you want to be when you grow up? As if growing up is finite. As if at some point you become something and that’s the end."

"I look back on the discomfort of that moment now and recognize the more universal challenge of squaring who you are with where you come from and where you want to go."

"I understand now that even a happy marriage can be a vexation, that it’s a contract best renewed and renewed again, even quietly and privately—even alone."

"Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?"

"Life was teaching me that progress and change happen slowly...We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient."

“For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end.”

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