Instead the last few weeks and months I have been trying to think of something that was remotely interesting to write about but still nothing....my mind has been blank. No enlightening moments, no thunderbolt meetings, no inspirational eureka moments.
And there it was. Here was my subject.
In the first couple of months as a newly single person my days, nights and weekends were fun filled and packed. I've been on 2 holidays, booked one major holiday, moved out, been back at the gym, given, up smoking and attempted to eat healthier.
This was my effort, everybody telling you to get out there, keep busy, and get on with it, put in the hard graft they said and before you know it you'll be onto bigger and better things. But despite all these promises and doing exactly what had been recommended the awaited prize was yet to materialise.
My awaited prize was yet to materialise errrrr.....wtf? But that is exactly what I had been thinking. For the past couple of weeks I have been waiting for some sort of miracle, the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow and actually believed that I was owed it!
Reality check - I am not owed anything. What I get out is equal to exactly what I put in, it’s a simple equation. Effort is required 100% of the time and nothing less. This isn’t "The Secret" or even a secret, it’s just life. You can’t just believe something will happen; you have to make it happen - we are our own vehicles for change.
You want to quit smoking - just stop smoking. You want to lose weight - eat less. Earn more money - get a new job, study more. The list is endless but at the end of the day it is all down to one person. You. Or in this case me. And results are not instantaneous, there is no such thing as instant gratification. Modern society perpetuates a quick fix attitude.
In fact, I’m not going to beat myself up about this - I have been putting in the effort, I am doing so every day, it is becoming second nature. Big changes have been made, and big changes are on the brink of happening - so what if nothing extraordinary has happened, life is full of ups and downs yes, but its also full of just normal regular days.
And normal days are good too, without normal days you don’t really understand the highs and lows. So I’m not going to panic anymore about "nothing happening" - things happen as long as I make them happen and as long as I continue to try then who knows what's around the corner. But what I am really trying to say ( in a very long winded way) is don’t just expect things to happen and if they don’t, it’s ok, normal days are just as important, and they are most definitely worth writing about.
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