I seem to get a lot of inspiration for blog posts by cruising through my Facebook feed. Sometimes I'd rather be without inspiration, honestly, but this time it was good. I follow the Power of Positivity page and they recently posted the following quote which I felt was so true:
Sometimes our lives have to be completely shaken up, changed, & rearranged to relocate us to the place we're meant to be.
Ugh.
Oh, how I wish this statement wasn’t true but gosh darn it we’re a bunch of thick-headed folks who can’t see the rocky and barren path we’re walking on for what it is—a path to nowhere fruitful. Thankfully, we have the opportunity to get off those paths and find the ones that will bring us goodness and abundance. Let’s all pray to see those paths in advance BEFORE something catastrophic and devastating like a "life-earthquake” has to change our direction for us.
I’m personally working hard mentally to course correct on some thoughts I've been carrying around with me for about 40 years now, but I feel like I have one foot on each path and the paths are diverging. And there’s a big chasm between the two up ahead. My feet just keep getting farther and farther apart as the two paths go in different directions (this is my first attempt at using symbols to illustrate a mental picture - applaud my efforts, please. Those are feet and legs where each foot is on a different path. Really, someone should give me an art award. This is spectacular. Ha!) _/ \_ _/ \_ _/ \_
I know which path and which decisions lead to a fruitful life but it’s going to require more strength to traverse. The path that leads to nowhere, or in a loop that plays back the same events in my life, is very familiar and my body and mind know what to expect out of that path. You can say I've been through that pain and survived many times before so it's comfortable. The path leading to abundance is almost completely foreign to me. I've never encountered or fully embraced that journey.
Will I take the difficult path that leads to a better life? Or will I repeat the same nonsense that has led me right back to the issues of the day?
It’s my choice. I get to choose. My fear or my gumption. My tears or my sass.
It’s not a difficult choice, logically. Of course we all want a better life!
But who of us REALLY makes the effort to push out of our comfort zones to get on that path for good? I'm not talking about trying out the tough path for a day to see if we’re strong enough for the long haul - I am fairly confident that has worked for zero of us in the past. I’m talking about really jumping on it with both feet, wearing blinders to keep us from glancing over at the comfortable path, and even building a dang blockade where the two paths meet to prevent ourselves from blindly crawling backwards to get back to the comfortable path. And you better know I’m inventive so it’s gonna take more than blinders and a blockade to keep from reverting to my old habits.
It’s gonna take commitment. Dang it.
I like my options so commitment is tough. But this is going to take real commitment to the difficult work ahead that will lead to a more abundant life.
THIS is the choice. I get to choose. Do I keep straddling or do I fully commit?
Even as I type that my brain is trying to justify why straddling both paths is really a safe option even though I logically want to commit to having a better life.
The good news is that I know I have this choice every day. I can choose commitment tomorrow morning, even tonight. And if I find myself starting to invent a crazy catapult system to launch myself wildly back to my comfortable path in a few days (or in an hour), I can recognize that and make the choice again to recommit. Or maybe I just stumble a little on the new path. I can make that choice to commit again. And again. And again. And again until I reach my destination. Even AFTER I reach my destination because our brains are crazy and those old patterns sneak in outta nowhere sometimes.
It’s my choice. It’s all my choice. The power to choose is mine.
Let’s all choose that fruitful path. Let’s choose to get stronger. Let’s choose abundance.
I can do it.
You can, too.
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