Everyone talks about how the holidays are the busiest times of the year. They talk and talk about how everyone is always rushing around, not taking time to properly appreciate the holiday, et cetera, et cetera. But tell me, is this really so much different than what goes on every other time of the year?
I think not.
People are always rushing. People are endlessly fighting to be faster and more modern than the next person. People are forever looking for ways to distract themselves from having to face the truth about life, and the truth about themselves, because they all know that the truth will disappoint them.
They will find that the truth is, life is something so much bigger than what they have made it out to be for their entire lives. They will see how they wasted their lives prioritizing the wrong things, and they don’t like admitting that they are wrong. They would rather live in a world boiling over with distractions instead of facing the truth about their realities. It is easier that way.
But I am a person as well. The difference between them and I is that I admit that I have been living wrong, and I am moving to change. The difference lies in awareness. Awareness of which the sweet distractions of the world are brought to knowledge, bravely fought, and victoriously conquered.
Courageously slaying the lovely deceptions of life and thence living a life void of regret for what I could have done, should have done, but didn’t do; this is my resolution. It is a resolution for a new life, rather than merely a new year. It is a change of lifestyle, of mind, and of heart.
It is The Change of all changes. And the arrival of a new year is coincidentally, or even fatefully, the perfect time to begin.
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Speculations of an Artistic Mind: Jane's Thoughts
Non-FictionEveryone has thoughts. These ones are mine.
