Sunday, October 26, 2014

Growing Pains

It’s funny, but sometimes it’s hard to see your own progress until you revert to who you once were. No fundamental change has occurred, no earth shattering realization of a new guiding ideal within me, nothing grand like that. Just one day of acting as I would have not even six months ago opened my eyes to the reality that even though I have a long way to go, I have come so far. Even some of the people I once looked up to seemed less than ideal. My view has altered and I see the world differently. 
But my view is not without its flaws. New problems and new solutions are all around me. Things I would have never considered are in my thoughts regularly. Yet, I make the same mistakes as I always have. If just a bit of excitement can make me back-pedal so much, am I really changed at all in any lasting way? So, how can I continue with the end in mind without becoming discouraged? I want to do so much, be so much more than I am now. I am not who I was but I am not much more than that either.
How can I stay motivated and hopeful? No matter how many inspiring people I meet or how many touching experiences I am blessed to have, the doubt always finds its way back into me. No matter how extraordinary my routine is, I get stuck in the drudgery of repetition. No matter how many people go out of their way to support me, I manage to fall on my face.

 Ok, for now. That’s the best you can really expect. But I want more than that. 

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