A lot of people go along with something because it’s what everyone else is doing.
Or so the story goes.
Why not do something because it involves going along with something that you feel is best?
Best for you, to be clear.
After all, all you have to consider after you’ve considered everyone else is, after all, just yourself.
How long do we live our lives for others?
Doing what others feel is best for the team?
Doing what others feel is best for them?
When do we choose ourselves in the face of appearing selfish?
There is no finite answer here.
I suppose if you’re like many of the others who have been going along with the rest of the common thinkers, you reach at various times points whereby you can actually do something that instead of being for the greater good, is merely good for yourself and your wellbeing.
Do you think you’d feel guilty if you ever actually went through with it?
Sure, it’s a change in direction, but sometimes we get a calling from somewhere else that indicates or nudges us along a certain path contrary to the one we’ve been on.
Sometimes we decide against the new journey because we don’t have enough of what I call “sure things” in regards to the outcome.
The old coffee pot that no longer delivers
Another old saying that you’ve probably never heard before is the one that goes something like this:
That old coffee pot isn’t brewing good coffee so you better get a new one.
There are pickers who take perfectly functioning technology like toasters and coffee makers from the sides of roads.
The modern-day versions of these appliances don’t necessarily do a better job. They just have more buttons and controls to be cognizant of.
The new will become familiar soon enough.
And this is how we eventually come to deciding what’s best in our own lives right now or at any given moment.
You can line some things up so that it approximates the feel of something that will turn out in your favor.
Or you can just dive right into a change only because you believe it is needed far and above the desire to not disturb the status quo.
Sometimes the need to preserve the status quo is outweighed by change you can bring yourself.
More often than not, however, change happens without you trying to make or induce the particular change that ends up happening to you.
That’s life.
And so is deciding for yourself that something has to give.
You may not be able to put your finger on it exactly.
Sometimes it’s as innocent as trying something new.
Whatever it is.
However you may bring yourself to enact it.
Whatever it sets you back.
We end up purging and replacing.
Replacing and purging.
As we go through life.
To remain static is to get passed by.
We’re all afraid.
Afraid of the changes we make.
And fearful of those for which we can’t quite pull the trigger.
We both had a choice when we stared at the screen to read this.
I chose to (hopefully) at least convincingly allude to the greater value that is making the necessary changes in life to enhance its quality.
And you (hopefully) have chosen to now consider the prospects that are being the change (instead of being run over by it).
Happy New Year.
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