A second chance in life. Starting over. Being reborn. A new beginning … We hear this so often, it’s become a cliché. But there’s a reason we hear it often. And whatever it might be called, it is our choice to make.
At any stage of life, there is the potential to become something different. Be something new. Someone new. This is my story … becoming someone ‘new’. Or as a dear friend would say to me, ‘No, it’s still you, it’s just another version of you’.
In my life, I’ve had a career, family and friends, love and loss. As we all do. There have also been points of … what’s the word? Crossroads, I guess. Points at which there was a chance to take a new direction or a different path. I didn’t always take that chance. This is also true, I feel, for many.
What I also observe is that these points are points of opportunity. They are a chance to learn from past experience. I almost said ‘mistakes’ but that’s a judgement. However, if we don’t learn a lesson in life, the same challenge will appear, and appear again until we learn the lesson intended. Sometimes, it takes a while …
But no matter how long it takes, or at what stage of the life journey our directions change, what is important is that we pay attention. We need to pay attention to where we are. We need to pay attention to where – and who – we want to be.
To get to that place, an inner change of direction is called for. From the head, yes, to the heart. Because these decisions are not made with the mind but come from the heart.
Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.
Rumi
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