CHASING OLD RABBITS (SONG LYRICS)

THE GRIEF OF BECOMING SOMETHING MORE

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There is a quiet split necessary for changing your life — something you must admit — and almost nobody tells the truth about it.

Self-improvement is all about the guilt of abandoning something you’d already built.

Shifting your career, outgrowing old habits, and even altering boundaries can create the most profound changes — rearranging countless interpersonal exchanges.

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Change provides an immediate sense of liberation… yet restructures your entire inner foundation.

It can’t be understated how complicated personal daily reality has been created.

[CHORUS] When you actually begin to evolve, the dominant emotion is rarely relief. It is more often grief.

It’s not uncommon to feel a hollow sadness right in the middle of a massive shift in your worldview — while abandoning that specific older version of you.

We all build psychological scaffolding — a social operating structure based upon stability and predictability.

When finally ready to let go, you start saying no and stop performing your historically assigned role.

You’re also removing a load-bearing pillar from everyone you know and their connected comfort zones.

[CHORUS] When you actually begin to evolve, the dominant emotion is rarely relief. It is more often grief.

It’s not just changing your own destiny, where everything ripples forward unpredictably and endlessly.

Others respond because you’re forcibly altering your mutually shared history.

It’s an intentional act not rooted in malice, yet to friends, family, and colleagues, it’s like burning down the palace.

They may seem to sabotage your success, but some are simply mourning the loss of that predictable version you formerly expressed.

[CHORUS] When you actually begin to evolve, the dominant emotion is rarely relief. It is more often grief.

True growth requires a brutal but necessary rupture — a temporary fracture — misunderstood by those you love because you had become part of their identity and foundational structure.

Try surviving this without retreating into your previous patterns and habits.

…or chasing old rabbits.

Chasing old rabbits.

© 2026 Peter W. Collier