The days,
weeks and months leading up to this post have been slow, somewhat treacherous and
equally as frustrating. I’ve spent copious amounts of days with ‘clipped wings’- Death of motivation for a busy be like myself. Unfortunately, instead of
practicing what I have preached in the past, I’ve found it easier to feel like
a victim.
Yesterday,
today, last week, a month ago, January the 31st, those were all
borrowed time that I realize to my self-detriment, I have wasted. I’ve wasted
them because I have single-handedly chosen not to apply myself. What do I say
to that? Sies! (Yuck) No more!
As the journey continues, it’s clear that it
is so easy to hit a bump in this road and another, and then another and another
and another until it eventually feels like there’s no smooth patch in sight, relentlessly throwing you into the deep end of doubt, disbelief and sometimes neglect-A
deep vortex that some people don’t ever find their way out of. As I gather the
courage to walk on, I need to realize that these tough days will come, and they
will come fierce. And you know what ‘victim’, it happens. Furthermore,
the victim attitude gets you nowhere.
Dear
Stranger, nobody said yesterday would be easy and tomorrow would be easier but
once you apply yourself and think, there are things you can do today to take
the load off tomorrow.
Dear Modiegi,
it’s a normal course of life that the sun won't shine everyday but in everyday
there’s an opportunity to shine- you’d be a fool not to seize those
opportunities.
Dear life,
sometimes it’s so hard to say thank you, but really thank you for today,
yesterday and the possibility that there will be tomorrow.
The shutdown
of procrastination, leads to wrapping my head around the fact that tomorrow isn’t
guaranteed but today is. The opportunity to carpe diem exists and should be
respected. Every day that I get to breathe, automatically makes that a day to
win. Let the fact that we live in a world where so many people don’t get the
opportunity to see a new day, a new month, a new year or even celebrate the next
birthday sink in… That should be enough motivation to get going and use today
to do better!
Of course, I don’t
have all the solutions on hand, but I would think the first chapter of the
manual is titled ‘Start Somewhere’.
Remember, it can
rain everyday but even in the toughest storms, there will come a calm. Dance in
the rain and push through the storm. It is a self-service to strive to be a
victor not victim of this thing called, life.
