Aug 06 2007
ReVised Living
What keeps you from changing things about the way you live?
- Is it money?
- Is it the old “what will other people think?”
- Is it that you can’t see yourself succeeding at a new way of life?
- Is it that you are afraid that if you don’t succeed it will define you for the rest of your life?
- Is it that you have just never dared to dream?
or is it that you are actually content with your life exactly as it is?
I love my current life, but there are other living situations I would either like equally or perhaps more if I had the chance to try them. One of them is RVing. One of them is living in a place like Sharingwood, with more community (neighborhood) involvement. Two different extremes, really, yet I think I could adjust to either. Actually, I think I would love to have both at once. I may never choose to try either, I may fall back on many of the excuses (or reasons in some cases, perhaps) I listed above.
But the last two reasons I would/could not ever claim. For I have dared to dream and I learned some time ago that one failure or seeming failure does not define a person. It may be a partial definition of a much larger one, but it only defines a person when that person allows it to. I chose to be defined by all of who I am. Do you? Or, do you need to revise how you see yourself?
