Back in the Game

It's funny how you can get so wrapped up in your life and all its obligations that you lose track of other, arguably more important things. This has been my experience over the last couple of months. Rushing from one committment to another, running back and forth from one disaster to the next: putting out a fire here, cleaning up after a flood over there... and before you know it, a day has run on into a week, a week into a month and so on until you look up and realise, another year is almost over.


Yes. That has been the story of my life in recent days, and I know I've said it before- if not here then on my other blog Lyrical Essences- but, I am going to take charge of my life again. True, I have made a few mistakes- ok a lot of mistakes, but I feel like it's time to start putting them behind me: make amends where I can, ask for forgiveness and put down the guilt, fear and self chastisement I've been lugging around for like a load of damaged bricks which are in no condition to be used to build anything solid.


Someone once said you cannot start over...and to a certain extent, they may be right. But regardless of whether you look at it as a new beginning or simply moving forward, life is going to go on whether we like it or not... that's just it's nature. All we have to decide is how we are going to go with it: are we going to make active decisions or sit passively as the current carries us along? The way I see it, there's a time and place for both. However even allowing life to carry us on should be the object of an enlightened and conscious choice, a function of the circumstances in which we find ourselves and not simply the outflow of a battered and defeated spirit. 


So I'm going to strap up my boots, tie my waist, square my shoulders and continue my journey. What are you planning to do?