Florence Welch says it’s hard to write about being happy, happiness is an extremely uneventful subject.

I had it all, the house, the husband, the corporate career. I sat on the 12th floor of the largest company in town. I lived by the ocean, had a solid group of friends and people who loved and supported me. But something was missing. Turns out it was a sense of agency. It was adventure, it was a place in the world that I could truly call mine. I’ve always wanted to lead by legacy, to leave a mark and I just didn’t feel I could do it from that beautiful white house, with that steady corporate job. I had to break away, from my marriage, from my foundation, from all of the things that society said I needed. To start from scratch and build something using only the pieces I wanted, the ones that fit MY puzzle.

The puzzle will never be finished. Sometimes I’ll decide the piece no longer fits and I’ll have to draw up a new big picture. But that’s where the beauty lies, in the creation NOT the destination.