Let’s Start Over.

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Hello readers!!!

I am back with another post. Hope you all are doing well. I know it has been a while, and this break has given me a lot of time to think and freshen up. So, here I am, back with the blog.

Today's blog is about something that I relate a lot to, and I believe that you will feel great after reading it, because the topic of this blog will be relatable to many of you too. So, here you go:

I think most of us have wanted to start over at some point.

Maybe not all over again but a new momentum, a new direction, with all the past left behind. We want to pick up the pieces of ourselves lying on the floor and create something untouched out of them. We want a second chance, a third chance and a fourth chance to be someone new, someone different. But the very moment we’re about to step out of the door, we become uncertain about the timing of it all.

In our 20s, we feel like we’re not ready to leap.
In our 30s, we think it’s starting to get late.
In our 40s, we decide that it is already too late.
In our 50s, we hang our boots.

We keep assuming that ‘now’ is not the right time to start over because we’re too early or maybe, too late. We think that we’re out of sync with a world that seems to be running a marathon like a sprint; a world that makes us believe that there is no time to waste and if we’re not early in the game, we’ve already lost our way(?).
 
          But a business started at 45 is still a business,
          A changed physique at 39 is still fitness,
          And a Europe trip at 65 is still happiness.
 
Nobody cares how long it took us to get there. The moment we get there, everything else becomes insignificant, People start talking about our transformation from a chubby fella in our late 20s to a fit muscular idol in our late 30s. And they wish they had done the same because it’s already getting late for them. But between late and too late, there are 10 long years where one can start, quit and start over again multiple times!
 

People start talking about our transformation from a chubby fella in our late 20s to a fit muscular idol in our late 30s. And they wish they had done the same because it’s already getting late for them. But between late and too late, there are 10 long years where one can start, quit and start over again multiple times!

We can choose to slow down, to fasten our pace or to start over again. We’re allowed to decide when something is not meant for us and when something is. We keep our eyes in our own line, on what we need and what we deserve.

The beauty of starting over is that we can abandon all the expectations, beliefs and fears that have been eating away our happiness. We can sign our own damn letter of approval and begin. We are still going to age at the same rate regardless of what we do.
So why not make the most of it, right?

But then, we don’t entirely start over again.
No one can.
It’s not a fresh start. There’s history. Life can be pictured to be a river where once it starts flowing, it doesn’t stop. We can’t correct a single second that has already passed, but what we can do is change our direction and choose where we want to go.

When we choose to start over again, we continue with a fresh perspective on our past experiences; A mental reset. That's what I did when I decided to start fresh on my blog.

We tell ourselves, “I want this so bad and I’m going to keep trying over and over again”. It might take us longer than before to get to the same place we were, but who knows?
We might like our new story better now.

So with our hands on our chests, let's start(continue?) creating ourselves again.

To be a victor, we need to see the big picture.
It’s not about winning or losing the small battles, but staying alive till the end of the war.

Bye!!! 

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