THIS IS YOUR NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION

January 8.

Have you ever been content with doing nothing? Not changing, not even attempting to morph into something better? A life where everything seems to be doing ‘OK’ and you’re content with having it keep on, keeping on as being just ‘OK’?

The funny thing about life is that nothing is picture perfect. Not only is it not picture perfect, it shouldn’t be; that’s the raw beauty of everything.

I don’t write because I’m an excellent writer, flawless in everything I pen. Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare and C.S. Lewis weren’t perfect writers. Simply recognizing those imperfections makes them all the better.

They were imperfect.

They messed up.

They had off-days.

They came to a point when they themselves realized that they were human.

Even in writing this I’ve messed up and had to go back and retype.

As you may know from reading some of my previous entries; I am the King of ‘sappiness’, the Duke of Romanticisms, and the Baron of Sentimentalities.

However, this isn’t sappy. This is true.

In life, you’re looking over a very steep cliff. You have been given three options: You either jump, hoping someone will catch you, not jump at all and live a life contemplating what could have happened, or you stick one leg over, complacently riding the high of both Everything and Nothing. Eventually, you would grow insane and depressed thinking about what you could have done if only you had jumped. Or, living on the edge, you would’ve grown tired of a life of ‘sitting there’.

But what if you jumped? What if you took that leap and did something?

Every social media platform tells you,

“Go out and do it.”

“Take the plunge…”

“Go.”

For some people, that means making headlining news and growing famous. For others, it means just making a difference. It doesn’t have to be something that you Pin on Pinterest or like on Instagram. Just something that matters.

So, listen to the social media platforms and don’t sit idly and complacently.

(Writing this is doing something. I’m exposing myself to the criticisms of the internet. If I can do it, you can. Today you can still start your New Year’s resolution.)

“You will never be entirely comfortable. This is the truth behind the champion - he is always fighting something. To do otherwise is to settle.” 

                                                                         ― Julien Smith, The Flinch