The longer we leave it…
We all have these key moments, when we have to do what it is staring us in the face, or go stir crazy.
Like the time I decided, ‘Right, I have to write my memoir. I have to do this, or I’ll die. And, it might kill me in the process – from embarrassment, anxiety, exhaustion, sadness – but God dammit, I’d rather die trying, than die of boredom and depression and regret. If writing this – and going through hell – is what it takes, then fine! I’ll take that chance.
Life always gives us challenges. And the longer we ignore them, block them out, dodge them or make excuses, the harder will be the next tests we face. Similar challenges form a pattern that may be very familiar, and will tend to revisit and repeat, until we get the message that, yes, we do have to deal with this head on. The longer we prevaricate, the greater the challenge grows, just to test our resolve. We have to take our courage in both hands and clamber aboard. The longer we leave it….
But such challenges are offered for a reason: perhaps to allow us to recognise and rework a defeatist pattern, to teach self worth; even, sometimes, to resolve issues have haunted us forever, such as a pattern of failure or settling for painful compromises, never allowing our true colours to shine bright.
In my next non-fiction book, Making Miracles, which is set for release in 2018, I share my dream diary, in the writing and re-reading of which, I recognised repeating patterns that have persisted over lifetimes. These I had to take on board if I wanted to make progress in this life. Luckily, I did, in the nick of time.
So let’s follow our dreams, people! The world needs folks with courage and faith to do what they know they have to. Let’s live like today is our best day.
Please share:
September 1, 2017 @ 9:18 pm
Ouch! Excellent post, Fran, and I’m delighted to know you have another book on the way! 🙂 Walking right into and through our worst fears–my least favorite exercise.
September 2, 2017 @ 11:04 pm
I got the idea for this post from observing a lot of Hollywood movies, in which a person, having dodged their deeper responsibilities for too long, one day does something almost suicidally brave, like singing in front of ten thousand people or climbing that high mountain at last. Or finally telling someone how much they love them.
That being Hollywood, they get credit for being exceptionally brave (or finally saying what they might have said in the first five minutes, which would have meant there was no film) whereas in fact, they are probably only setting their record to rights by doing something extreme… Our personal challenges will continue to remind us they are waiting…. and the longer we ignore them, the louder they become.
This seems to be one of the Universal laws that is popping up for me at the moment. (Perhaps, like all this flooding…. We have known for years we should plant more trees, now maybe, with catastrophe looming, we might get round to planting a few gazzillion to make up for all the ones we have felled.)
It’s never meant to hurt, though, so please go easy on yourself, and have fun. (((xxxx)))
PS – what are fears, except nightmares we remind ourselves of?