There’s a lot of talk in the media about “starting anew”.
We get indoctrinated
with it from when we’re young and the grownups have their New Years
Resolutions. But from there, things just go down the driveway.
Before you
know it, people are giving you “clean starts” and “new beginnings”, even if you’ve
been shoved in jail all night for unsuitable touching.
There’s
nothing wrong with changing the way we act, it’s just the way we approach it.
There’s this thought that life has a reset button, like a game. That if we don’t
like what’s going on, we can get back to the last save point – an ok situation
where nothing’s great but nothing’s bad – and start all over again.
But life
doesn’t work like that.
That view
of life misses all the lost opportunities you’ve forgone, it doesn’t recognize
that just because you reset, most other people won’t accept your decision.
It doesn’t
even recognize the good you can learn from making mistakes.
Instead of
looking for the reset, the start over, look for the turn around. This is where
you say, “that does it! I’ve had enough. No more twinkies. I’m losing weight”.
Or when you
say, “I’m taking control of my life. I need to take more responsibility for my
actions if I want things to get better”.
When we
decide we want things to change, we CAN change them.
But we must
realize that we’ve got to create change out of the crumbs of our old life. Only
by navigating the struggles of the old can be find the wonders of the new.
Not by “resetting”.
Alex H.
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