Our house is almost a bare shell of what it used to be now that practically anything that moves has been boxed up!
Not only that...my Broadband connection has been taken away so I am playing 'dial-up modem tag' all afternoon.
The house stays...but we take everything that defines us and our past...and walk away.
Wouldn't it be so much easier if we could leave our mental 'baggage' behind us as we make our way through the different phases of our lives.
It's so sad that we can be influenced by our past so much that it can have a terminal effect on our future.
We're leaving quite a few sad (but still a number of happy) memories behind in the walls of our house...yet all that they represent in regards to my future is coming with me.
The six years we have had at this house defined a period in my life that I feel sad about...yet still feel exhilarated about.
So...I'm going to leave this house an entirely DIFFERENT person to the one I was when I first set foot in it.
The rollercoaster ride over that time has defined me and my relationships so much that their mark (and Connor's smile) will remain etched deep within my memory until my last days.
Not only that...I feel that, even though you know me...yet I don't really know you...I know that, because of all this...we would meet each other as friends if we were to ever meet in person.
How powerful is that?
I've gone from worrying about what newspaper to read to focusing on how I can have even a minor impact on the lives of 25,000 people worldwide.
The journey may have taken me six years...but it only really began just under two years ago when I quit my job.
Everything that I previously 'stood' for in regards to my career or my 'position' in society means nothing now...a whole fifteen years of peer pressure 'wasted' before my very eyes.
Who knows what the NEXT couple of years may bring? New house, new life, new 'start'.
Why don't you join me...and start by writing down what YOU would leave behind in that old mental 'house' of yours when you finally make that decision to MOVE ON to a better lifestyle.
But don't wait too long. The 'if onlys' and 'what ifs' are always there to fool you that some OTHER time is the time.
They're wrong.
YOUR time is NOW. It's time to MOVE. What baggage are you going to leave behind?
Posted by vurnumg
