5 Jan 2012 – A New Year
It’s been a while since I’ve last updated this blog.
I’ve been devoting a lot of energy and time on other writing projects, with precious little left for personal stuff left over.
With the changeover to a new calendar, though, comes the psychological illusion of a chance to reevaluate things; in reality, change is nothing less than the result of willpower, commitment, and action coming together at any random time. In other words, you change (habits, clothes, whatever) when you want to.
At this point in time, though, I do feel like I need to change many things in my own life. There are some things I have now that I wish to unburden myself of, certain responsibilities and commitments that I want to jettison simply because any enjoyment and satisfaction I felt in doing them has been overcome by aggravation and stress. The way I want to live my life, I would strongly prefer for the balance to tip way more into the positive side of things. Once the balance tips over into a zone where the bad things outweigh the good, well…
Of course, all decisions require a period of soul-searching, a time for deep reflection, calculation, and honest appraisals of not just the good things in play, but the bad things as well. As human beings, we are all creatures stirred by emotions; negative emotions, in particular, exert a profound influence. Negative emotions are a lot like gravity, in fact, in that they are almost impossible to resist. Emotions, unfortunately, tend to discolor our logic, resulting in an imbalanced, distorted perspective on life.
Life is best lived when most things are in balance.
And so I enter a zone of introspection and thought, all in the pursuit of that balance I need.
Whatever decisions I make, I’ll likely spill the beans in this space.
Until then, may you live your own lives with as much peace, serenity, and balance as you desire.
