Just something to spark your 2012 - Happy New Year !!!
Sometimes it feels like you’re stuck. Corralled by your past, your job, your family, or simply by your nature. Enclosed by your own personal strings. The possibilities that light childhood and set adolescence aflame have dimmed. The horizon, once so vast and inviting, has narrowed. The path is now treacherous, with steep, ragged cliffs and perilous, dark forests. You have become the person who you will always be. You are carrying too much baggage now to change course or – god forbid – turn back. And so, with a sense of duty, or of powerlessness, you continue, the path ever more narrow.
The confidence to conquer all filled your heart with fire, the realities of unrealized dreams, broken hearts, and the weight of life’s responsibilities conspire to douse the flames of your soul.
But this blackening is not inevitable. The flames of our souls should never go out. Though they may flicker, and life can bring hardship or even just the somberness of routine, that is not the end of the story. The truth is, this world, and each of our lives, is whatever we make it.
Old habits are hard to break, it’s true. Egos are fragile things. And fulfillment is not something attained with ease. Like most things worth having – or feeling – self actualization takes work.
You can be who you want to be!
It doesn’t matter who you’ve been up until now. If you once were tough bitter, but you want to be open; lazy, but you want to be diligent; afraid but you want to be brave – it doesn’t matter! It may take work, it will be a challenge, it might seem impossible. But there is no doubt, that the potential inside each of us is so grand, so astronomical that it often takes only a small – but consistent! – change to set us on a path towards soul-searching, self-knowing.
Life still won’t be a piece of cake, but it will be (at least as I can see) live-worthy.
You will have problems, but the secret is how you deal with it. You may choose whine about how unfair life has been with you, but what is the real use of whine? For me ... I choose to be this incurable optimist.
So, take a moment today, think of just one single thing that you once wished or dreamed of being or doing in your life, great or small. Something that maybe you had set aside as just a dream, but that still resonates in your heart. And when you think of it, remember this truth – you can be that person, you can achieve that goal. It will take a personal realization deep inside, and an unfailing commitment, but it is absolutely yours if you choose. It will take work, focus, discipline, and sacrifice. But if it is truly worth it.
You can be whoever you want to be.
Happy 2012 for all
