Never Too Late To Begin Again

But regardless of her reputation, Hope can be fickle. As can Faith, and Charity is sometimes nowhere to be found.

Many people spend too much of their lives trying to fight to get back what they had, once. Whether it's youth, that moment of fleeting fame, or a love that they remember as being rosier than what it ended as, they spin cycles trying to go home.

Because home is supposed to be where the heart is, or where you hang your hat, or where your family lives.

But your life isn't just about your family, or where you fell in love with the decor, or the place with the easiest accessible hatrack. If that were the case, some of us would never move out of our parents' place.

Hm. There's truth in that supposition, isn't there.

We're supposed to be realistic, but we're also permitted to dream. Some of us can't help it - because we're looking for something better than what we have.

There's nothing wrong with that, even if you can't get to your dreams today. Or tomorrow. Or the next day, for that matter.

But all good plans can't take into account every twist in the road of life; rockslides wash out roads out here on a semi-regular basis. Sometimes when we fall, we fall into a place where it seems we cannot recover our dreams.

Sometimes our dreams no longer make sense, but the stubborn folk cling to them anyway.

Sometimes people just quit trying to find their dreams, because they're too old, or don't have the money, or lost something vital to achieving their dreams.

But I say this: In the Coyote philosophy, it's never too late to begin again.

Because wherever you go, there you are - and when you take a step in any direction, you're no longer in that place. It's okay to realize you're far from where you want to be, as long as your next step takes you closer to it.

It's okay to change where you want to go - much like running errands, not every dream has to be realized in the order they were inspired.

Some goals are simple, yet cost way too much.

Some goals are hard, but you can reach them with a lot of perseverance.

We can't snap our fingers and make miracles happen. We can't all be first - or second - or third. Someone has to make 'last place' possible - but isn't 'last place' still better than not trying at all?

Some folks set their bar too high - not because they dream too big, but because they aren't willing to do the work to get somewhere.

Even me - I'm set in my career, at this point, because I'd hate to get busted back down to a junior-level anything, simply because suddenly earning half of what I'm making now would be horrific in terms of day-to-day living.

But the TheSocietyInc in me quietly says; "If you had to, you would. But only if you had to."

And this truth rings true, to me. I've never minded starting from the beginning. It's how I learned everything I know. Remembering that I once knew nothing is the key. Having faith and stubborn perseverance to get good at something is more important.

Faith is only a belief away. If you trust your steps - get rid of the crutch of low-self esteem - if you begin to count your smallest achievements as victories instead of luck, you will begin to believe in yourself.

Hope comes home when Faith has tidied up the place. With enough of Faith, you start to think you can achieve more than you did the day before. You start to look forward to the challenge.

And Charity - well, contrary to popular belief, it takes some measure of dignity to ask for help in the way that will get it for you. There are people who refuse charity because they believe that they are responsible for their own downfall, and do not feel worth the help. No matter where they came from, it doesn't matter -- all that matters is that they failed, and are just waiting to die.

I have faith in myself. I have accepted help from others, though lately I've been trying to wean myself off of it. I need to be able to stand on my own and shoulder my share of the problems in my life - because I need to believe I can make it to tomorrow. It's a long and hard and somewhat lonely road ahead, and that's my choice - not because I don't care about the people who matter in my life, but because I've hit the stretch where I feel that my friends need to be chasing their own dreams instead of helping me figure out what mine are.

And my Hope is that they'll still be there when I figure out where I'm going.

I know it's never too late to begin again. Because Mom didn't raise me to be a failure, and TheSocietyInc never invests in lost causes.

But today, I am fixing fences blown down by the wind, and seeking answers in the ghost town of my past.

Tomorrow, I'm going to the library, and looking up the history of the changes that I've made in my life - to learn from what I've done before.

Next week? Who can say? I don't have a dream right now. Perhaps one will come to me in my sleep -even if I have miles to go before I get there.

But the most important thing is that I keep walking.

I've been curled up in my hole in the ground for far too long.

So here's the TheSocietyInc lesson for today.

Adventure is where you find it; wonder is where you discover the unknown to be beautiful. "All right-ness" is a state of mind just as much as a state of body and spirit. Healing comes at the cost of resting; resting comes at the risk of not getting up again when you really need to.

Life is an adventure - don't hide from it forever.

Because it's never too late to start on a journey.

 -Bitriz, TheSocietyInc Walking Words-

Dalam dunia ini, kita tidak punya sesiapa kecuali diri sendiri.. tetapi dalam kita bersendiri, kita beruntung kerana mempunyai seorang sahabat yang memahami kita.

Sebagaimana kita mengharapkan keikhlasan dan kejujuran seorang sahabat,begitu juga dia.

Tetapi kita sering terlupa akan hal itu. Kita cuma mengambil kira tentang harapan dan perasaan kita.

Kita rasa dikhianati bila dia tidak menepati janjinya. Kita tidak memberi dia peluang untuk menerang keadaannya.

Bagi kita, itu alasannya untuk menutup kesilapan dan membela diri.Kita terlupa,kita juga pernah membiarkan dia ternanti-nanti.... kerana kita juga ada janji yang tidak ditepati. Kita beri beribu alasan, 'memaksa'dia menerima alasan kita.

Waktu itu, terfikirkah kita tentang perasaannya???Seperti kita, dia juga tahu rasa kecewa....tetapi kita sering terlupa.

Untungnya mempunyai seorang kawan yang sentiasa di sisi kita pada waktu kita memerlukan dia.

Dia mendengar luahan perasaan kita, segala rasa kecewa dan ketakutan, harapan dan impian kita luahkan, dia memberi jalan sebagai laluan penyelesaian masalah.

Selalunya kita terlalu asyik bercerita tentang diri kita hingga kadang-kadang terlupa kawan kita juga ada cerita yang ingin dikongsi bersama kita.

Pernahkah kita memberi dia peluang untuk menceritakan tentang rasa bimbangnya, rasa takutnya

Pernahkah kita menenangkan dia sebagaimana dia pernah menyabarkan kita?

Ikhlaskah kita mendengar tentang kejayaan dan berita gembiranya?

Mampukah kita menjadi sumber kekuatannya seperti mana dia meniup semangat setiap kali kita merasa kecewa dan menyerah kalah?

Dapatkah kita yakinkan dia bahawa kita boleh dipercayai, kita boleh dijadikan tempat untuk bersandar bila terasa lemah, agar tidak rebah?

Bolehkah kita menjadi bahu untuk dia sandarkan harapan?

Sesekali jadilah kawan yang mendengar dari yang hanya bercerita.Ambillah masa untuk memahami hati dan perasaan kawan, kerana dia juga seorang manusia; dia juga ada rasa takut, ada rasa...bimbang,sedih dan kecewa.

Dia juga ada kelemahan dan dia juga perlukan kawan sebagai kekuatan. Jadilah kita kawannya itu. Kita selalu melihat dia ketawa, tetapi mungkin sebenarnya dia tidak setabah yang kita sangka. Disebalik senyumannya itu, mungkin banyak cerita sedih yang ingin diluahkan,disebalik kesenangannya,mungkin tersimpan seribu kekalutan,kita tidak tahu....... tetapi jika kita cuba jadi sahabat seperti dia,mungkin kita akan tahu...

Mungkinkah kita...?

sumber dari mailbox... the real author unknown....

p/s: insyaAllah the first entry will coming soon... =)