drwex | Journaling project, Day 6

Do not waste your energy fighting against where you are. Rather, invest your energy into getting to where you want to go. Let go of everything from the past that does not serve you in this moment, and just be grateful it brought you to where you are now—to this new beginning.

What’s something about the present moment that makes it the perfect time to begin (again)?

So this seems to be more or less where I started with responding to the last prompt. Thanks for the good discussion on that, by the way. I've always tried to live (and counseled others when asked): Begin from where you are.

That said, I feel (perhaps being contrarian) that even when starting from where you are, a healthy dose of reflection on the past and how you got here is worthwhile. The trick is to distinguish between "reflection" and "obsession" or "dwelling". If you don't understand history, you're doomed to repeat it, or something like that. Not knowing how or why you ended up in the current state is a good predictor for ending up there again.

I can't think of anything that makes right now a "perfect" (or even pretty good) time to begin anything again. I'm relatively close to the end of this phase of my life, in that I send one child to college this year and the other will be out of the house in a few years. Once that's done it'll be an opportune time to look around and make some life decisions. Partly I have been feeling like I want to live in a different part of the world, but I don't know as I want to get too far away from my aging parents. Which bring us back around to "there is no perfect time".

I don't even know what, if anything, I'd like to "begin again". I just know that making some things be different ripples to other things being different.

Yeah, I'm not doing so well with these prompts, am I?