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Embarrassed About Starting Over?
A by-product of walking for me is the clarity that comes to mind once you get past the physical discomfort of the exercise. Today I began thinking about an inspirational story I heard about the light from a star. Briefly, it says that it takes the light from a star millions of years to reach us here on Earth. Imagine if one day the star decided that the journey took long or it was too far-our to complete. The sky we see at night would never be the same.
I compare this to the journey of changing one's lifestyle from that which has a proven history of causing high-blood pressure, diabetes, pain, suffering and death to one that involves living a long and healthy life. It's not easy. Let's establish that. However, so many of us who start and quit because we hit roadblocks or we get eaten up by that mental monster we all keep in the center of our chest-or we have bad days or weeks (or more) simply chose to ignore the responsibility we have to keep at it. Without you in it, the world we live in would never be the same.
Starting over is fine-quitting is the real crime-besides, it took Thomas Edison 10,000 "start-overs" before he figured out the light bulb!
Dreams mean work,
LR