Without change, something
sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
Frank
Herbert
As we live through this world, we
often find ourselves merely existing. Sure, we continue comfortably, not
because things are going well, but because we have grown comfortable with our
discomforts. Like that nagging back pain that will never go away or those shoes
that are too tight, we have learned to adjust how we live to lessen the
discomfort to a point that’s tolerable. And then we dismiss it as part of what
it means to exist.
We see it in our everyday routine, repeated
time and time again enough to a point that you no longer need any actually
active brain cells to continue with your life. We see it in a dysfunctional
relationship where the only communication is either discussion on how to pay
bills or arguments over what pisses each other this time. We see it in a life
where you simply forgot to even give up on life as you dull your soul out with
poison; be it alcohol, drugs, or something as simple as lot of TV time.
But if you are lucky, if you are truly
blessed, you will receive a wakeup call, a moment when merely existing is no
longer acceptable. Maybe it was a medical crisis. Maybe it was a marital
crisis. Maybe it was a financial crisis. Or maybe it was simply realizing that you
could no longer look at yourself in the mirror as you lost who you were.
When I said that you are fortunate for
having woken up by hitting bottom, I wasn’t being sarcastic. Some people hit
bottom, and even then won’t wake up. You realized that you needed to change,
grow, and better yourself. You understood that you couldn’t take another day as
the man you were. That alone is commendable but don’t expect any celebratory
parade as too often men wake up simply to change position and go right back to
sleep.
Not this time. Not today.
Today you dust yourself off and you stretch
yourself out, because the road ahead isn’t an easy own. It will force you to become
accountable for every wrong choice you’ve done and to stop blaming yourself for
everything you have no control over. You will unburden yourself of what’s not
needed and carry a new load of all that you need in your new journey. Brothers,
awaken and walk down your path. At the end, what changes isn’t simply your
life, but the fact that now you are alive.
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