A Fresh Start

Beneath the skin.

There’s something there for sure. There is a reason you did that and not this. There is something causing that feeling of…expectation, or guilt, or pleasure, or sadness, or worry, or restlessness, or boredom.

It’s helpful to look closer, and more clearly, at what makes us who we are. Then maybe we can be kinder to ourselves. Because there is, whisper it, a sort of inevitability to where and who we are right now. A path that brought us here. One which we cannot change, and perhaps never could.

That thought might, but shouldn’t, lead to a sense of helplessness - “If ME is inevitable, why bother?”

But why not choose instead to have a wee bit of compassion for this person, YOU, who has developed into…well, THIS. Give them a bit of leeway and suggest, very simply, that whatever has happened, now there is an opportunity for a new beginning.

Nothing to stop them moving in a better direction. Nothing tying them down to the ticks, and triggers, and habits, that came before.

A Fresh Start isn’t just another nice idea. It’s a fact to be embraced, no matter how many times we “mess up”. Or “succeed”.