Momentum
(Sara Bareilles - Gravity)
So I've been travelling the last few weeks with a coworker of mine. She's a 27 year old girl who's lived her entire life as mommy and daddy's only child. As you know I have a penchant for being completely filterless (aka tactless), I told her that she lived a sheltered life and called her bubble girl. Now most of you would probably call me mean and I wouldn't blame you. Some of you though, might actually think that I'm trying to be helpful (would like to buy you guys a drink). In actuality it's probably a little of both.
It frustrates me to see people who can't see outside of their own little world. These are the people in arguments who can't see the value of another person's point of view. The people who are convinced that the way they live is the only way to live. These are also the same people who miss out on all the great opportunities life provides us.
If you are not running with your opportunities, then you are not running. Those who don't run quickly find themselves left behind.
It's hard to change, no one disputes that. Working towards change is something everyone struggles with. The attempt to change one's own momentum so that inertia acts in your favour is something I think everyone should be doing. To not even make the attempt is disheartening to me.
Inertia can be your friend or your foe, it really is up to you. If you are in a shitty place and you let inertia weigh you down, then you're giving into your own dispositions. If your relationship is broken, make changes, work on the relationship. If it ultimately does not work, be brave enough to walk away.
If you're in a great place and you're travelling a 100 miles an hour, lose yourself in the moment. Don't let life's worries and stress take it away from you.
As you get older inertia plays a bigger part in holding you back. When you've got a routine going it's really hard to change with all the intertwined responsibilities you've got. At work, at home -- it becomes something so hard to disturb and so difficult to break free of. So when you get the opportunity to change the everyday norm - suit up and gather some speed. Because you'll love the wind in your hair.
Take the opportunity to do something outside your normal routine/comfort zone. Get out. Have fun. Spring is in the air.
2 comments:
Been awhile since I've been here - didn't know you were still writing. How ironic is it that the night of all nights that I decide to check in, you write a post that is not only timely but poignant. Perhaps it's not irony, but is, in fact, providence.
I've been travelling at 100 miles an hour and lost myself in the moment. But perhaps I've been too consumed in trying to get to that final destination that I lost all sight of the reason I was trying to get there in the first place.
And sometimes, life with throw you a hook, something you never saw coming. I guess that's when you have to take that leap of faith. Faith, that everything will work itself out somehow.
I always thought I would be brave enough to walk away from something that wasn't working. But now that that something has walked away from me, I know now that I was never really as brave as I thought I was.
Seeing as I have no idea who wrote this and that it's as ambiguous as I am tactless, I'll keep this as generic as possible. Generic but still personal. Tactless robots can be personal, I think.
A long time ago, when I lost something that meant a lot to me at the time, I decided to remove myself from the whole process of grieving. How do you remove yourself from something like that? I simply detached myself from the very object I grieve about.
Sure it takes some practice but I find when things end, I grieve for about a week and then the next week I'm ready to move on and start the process of being normal again. Keep in mind I remain bitter til the very end but removing myself from the situation lessens my bitterness over the years to a dull roar.
Until the next big moment in my life can outshine that bitterness.
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