I’m okay, are you?
What if I don’t want a new beginning? What’s wrong with things as they are? Why are we so easily lured into the idea that something about us is broken and needs fixing?
Don’t get me wrong…I’m all for personal growth and even transformation. But so many messages in January seem to point to us needing wholesale changes.
I’m too tired to change my whole life. Or maybe I’m not tired.
Maybe I’m just content. I have enough to eat, a home to live in, and interesting things to occupy my days. That’s quite a lot of blessings.
So I choose not to buy into our culture of dissatisfaction.
All is well as it is.
That doesn’t mean that the world couldn’t be more peaceful and have less pain and suffering. That would be wonderful, but it just means that it isn’t my responsibility to “fix” things for anyone.
- Let me be content.
- Let me get that I am already enough.
- That there is enough.
I want to ease into this year 2025 with a grateful heart. To give what I can. To love where I can. And to be kind to myself.
And I’ve decided the best gift I can give myself is…time!
If it took me 5 years to gain this extra weight, it will take longer than 5 days to lose it. And that’s okay.
If it took me 10 years to fill all these files with clutter, it will take longer than 10 minutes to clean them up. And that’s okay.
Slow results are still results.
Slow progress is still progress.
Slow change is still change.
Great things do take time.
Important things do take time.
You too could decide what’s the best gift to give yourself. And then you can give it!
(maybe a gift of time or forgiveness or love or..?)
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Pat, I love the way you look at remembering to be content. We do often think we need to change something when we really are content with what is going on in our lives. So let’s stay alive in 2025!