You'll be pleased to know this post is not about resolutions or losing the christmas chub - there's more than enough being written about them, and I find they often spout the same old stuff and are never that helpful. If you want to set resolutions then do it, if you don't then don't. If you want to go on a health kick then go for it, if you're not bothered then that's ok too. Do what makes you happy and do it for yourself - that's all I'll say on the matter!
Instead, I want to talk about a couple of quotes I have been thinking about since I saw them posted by a number people over the past few weeks.
I don't know about you, but I am a sucker for saving things 'for a special occasion'. No matter the time of year, I'll always have a stash of things which I'm saving for 'another time'. The thing is, these 'special occasions' and 'other times' never really come around. Once I had a perfume that I was saving and I ended up getting about half-way through it when it went off. Just this past christmas I had a some festive themed clothes that I kept putting off wearing, and before I knew it christmas was over and they were never worn. While it is nice to have special things that we don't use daily, if they just sit there getting old then we're not getting the most of their value - I'd rather something lost its 'value' through being used and appreciated, than because it sat on a shelf becoming old and obsolete.
The same notion applies to waiting for the perfect or 'right' moment. It's so easy to procrastinate and put off doing or starting something because it's 'not the right moment'. I find myself sometimes thinking 'I can't do that because of x y z. Once those things are sorted then I'll be ready and I'll start'. It's a bit like that saying 'a diet starts on Monday', but when Monday comes around we realise nothing has changed and so the diet never starts. I think it's easy to romanticise a perfect future where everything comes together at the 'right' moment, and we are fully prepared and will just know what to do - but let's be real, life doesn't work like that. We can never be fully ready because it's not through preparation, but through trial and error, that we really learn and grow. And what is a right, or perfect, or special moment?
So, if there's something I'll be reminding myself of throughout 2016 it's to appreciate and use the things I have, realise there are no perfect, special or right moments, and to accept life is full of uncertainty and chaos. Life is happening right now, this is the moment, so stop putting it off and jump in!
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