Happy Birthday to Me!
Another year has passed, and another birthday arrives. As time passes, it's interesting that my birthday and the end of the year coincide, a time to think about the end of both, and the start of new things. It's been a year of ups and downs, the second year of the pandemic, and in many cases, so little has changed. In other ways, so much has changed.
A friend asked me to think about writing down how change happens from the inside, versus what's visible from the outside, and I mentioned that I thought it would be a very short story:
- Don't let yesterday ruin your today
- Don't hold today hostage for the promise of tomorrow
- Focus on just this moment, it's all we have, and it is more than enough.
- Do your best, all the time, and whatever happens - you know you couldn't have done more
This is what I've distilled my recovery down to... it's not a lot of big changes, in fact, it's not any really big changes at all. It's the almost imperceptible layering of millions of little things, that when viewed, occasionally, from the outside - appear as changes, but at the time they happen, it's really just sticking to one of the four tenets.
Every day is exactly the same... and I am blessed. 🙂