The only thing you can change is yourself. Of course this is while change is happening around you. You either evolve or devolve. You may believe you're staying the same, but in truth your growth or breakdown might be just slow.

Yesterday I made two considerable strides personally. People might consider them small, but I considered them great.

1. I jogged for 40 minutes yesterday. I don't know the distance bcause I was focused more on time than distance, but just the fact that I was able to jog for 40 minutes, without stopping, made me very happy. In the process of I think 2 weeks I went from a walk/speedwalk/jog routine to a straight jog. It made me really happy. It meant that whatever I was doing was working and gave my work validity.

2. I was able to calm myself down from a really angry mindset to a joyous on within 10 minutes, without the use of substances. This took some talking to in my part with myself. I know the whole thing about "talking to yourself" isn't really deemed what normal people do, but most people don't have inner peace either, so let us not follow the norm. I was at a point last night where I wanted to scream my head off about something when I took myself in my room and talked to myself in the mirror, putting everything in perspective and calmed myself enough that I not only cracked a smile, but had a sense of balance and inner peace. I couldn't stop smiling. What did I tell myself?

"Everything that happens is just an experience. Our ego gives it the label of positive or negative. Our ego is also that which decides if it offends us or not. We cannot control the experiences we have, but we can control how we preceive them, react to them, and more importantly, use them in our favor."

The ego is superficial. If you don't allow it to get in the way, you will be quite surprised to find what happens.

Change is inevitable. We, as individuals, can choose to stand still...but life doesn't.
» little-b on 2006-08-22 02:08:06

Ahh...very true. That would be where aging comes in. :)
» little-b on 2006-08-22 02:20:36

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