There's a well known saying that states that people don't like change. And, for many this is true. We get comfortable in the day to day. We enjoy our morning cup of coffee and proceed with our day just as we had the day before. It's comfortable, it feels good, and great productivity often comes out of routine.
My life is full of routine and I often find comfort in the norm. However, lately I have been careful to pay more attention to the little things outside and within those routines and have found that even in the day to day happenings, things are constantly changing.
I made resolutions with myself this year that I had hoped would put me on some sort of track to an end goal. I promised myself that I would work harder and push my creativity when it came to my work but to also take time to myself to rest, read, and write--three things that I love. I, also, have become very stubborn about working out, eating more wisely, and growing out my hair. Upon reflection, what I found was that I promised myself that I would form good habits and good routines not really realizing that all these norms were going to spawn change.
Work has been more tiring but more rewarding, as of late. I have thrown myself into making things better than they were before and by constantly trying to stay focused, there have been greater/better outcomes. Curriculum has been enjoyable to write and relationships with people have grown.
My writing has picked back up and so has my reading. I picked up an old journal a few months ago that I had kept in high school and read through some of the entries. I was excited to read about the transformation that my life has taken as well as see the growth in my writing. So, I picked up where I left off and have written an entry almost daily for the past few months. I'm eager to see what I'll think of myself ten years down the road.
Thanks to Shaun T kicking my rear almost daily, my frame has gotten smaller and seemingly more fit. This fitness routine coupled with better eating habits seems to have caused my clothes to be worn a bit more loosely which is a very welcomed change. I've been excited to try on clothes from years ago to find that they are even fitting a bit larger.
And, the vow to be patient and let my hair grow out is beginning to pay off. It has grown past that awkward "I can't do anything with it" phase and has regained some natural curl and wave that was nonexistent when I had it chopped off last summer.
Small changes have been occurring as I was fighting to form habits and routine--changes that have been healthy and good for me. Our lives are full of comforts but it's also full of change that so often goes unembraced because we so desperately want the norm. Change has been good for me and it can very well be good for each of us. I look forward to the hope in the future--in the things that are constant and in the things that often seem at the time to turn our world upside down.
