Starting Over


There comes a time in everyone’s life when a page is turned and a new chapter begins. Some have many more chapters then others but it comes down to the fact that they still have chapters. It makes no difference if they’re long or short because they are inevitable. Life would become too complacent without them. Just think of how your life would be if it never changed. The good part of it is that things will never get worse. The bad part is that things will never get better then what they are now.

Much like a bookstore there are many different subjects with many different chapters. Most people have started over at least a few times in their lives before they reach adulthood. Changing schools, friends, moving and jobs seem to be the most common. With time comes ease of transition but with age comes more repercussions with every decision. When failure is not an option, pages are added to the same endless chapter. Along with becoming an adult, comes the burden of making the best decisions for one’s self.

A person needs change in their life in order to make it ignite into what they have always dreamed it would be. Fear of making one’s life worse is the main reason most don’t even attempt to begin new life chapters. People must learn to trust their inner voice and take chances to better their life when the right time to do so presents itself. Fear of letting the opportunity blow by and living with regret is what fuels most people to make a decision while they still can. Balancing between failure and regret is a hopeless feeling. Stifled by anxiety because they are forced to foresee their own future and make a life changing decision. Deep inside the answer is waiting to be decoded and sent to the next page which is waiting to be turned.

Starting new chapters is something everyone is faced with at one time or another. The decision to do so lies hidden within. The place that is only meant for you and nobody else, the one only you can call yours. Some try to share this place with others but it must be self discovered before it can ever be dispensed. Places buried so deep that you yourself have yet to explore them. Way behind ones inner voice lies an unexplored sense. Beyond any traditional sense, it waits to be set free and honed to the sharp confident tool we need it to be. A tool so powerful, it can erase all doubt about what’s on the next page. New life chapters will give starting over the feeling of belonging in the journey of life.

Persistent Inheritance

Will the world ever run out of ideals to force on others? It doesn’t look like it will ever end with all the free time some people have. It seems the only way to get a law passed is to spend countless hours lobbying or spending lots of money for campaign donations. Since most Americans don’t have the time or money for lobbying, we end up bound by laws that we don’t agree with. Even in our so called free society we are forced to conform to the will of leadership. Sure we have the right to vote for the people running for office but why don’t we have the power to vote on all the issues. It’s almost impossible to find a candidate that you can agree with on all the issues. Even when you vote for someone, there is no guarantee they will vote the way they said they would. Since the people you vote for make the laws, misleading voters will never be against the law. If you made the law would you make something you do illegal?

Changes need to be made, but seem very unlikely to ever surface. A lot has changed since our government was constructed, yet are government has barely shifted since it was formed. There wasn’t anything even close to the internet back then. Do you think our government would be anything close to what it is now, if the internet was around back then? The technology to put the vote on every issue into the people’s hands has been around for a while now but has never illuminated through the red tape produced by our system. Letting citizen’s vote on all the individual issues would free up the politicians time to do what they were meant to do. What’s that you ask? That would be to put the laws we have chosen on paper.

Voting on issues should be a daily or weekly right for every single American. Only then will our government truly be run by the people. My vote would really count. Some smaller forms of government do let their residents vote on certain issues. Are we destined to have someone do our voting for us forever? I would like to think that someday things will change but I don’t see a solution any time soon. Until then I guess we will conform to the system that was handed down to us.

Leaving it all behind

I think there has to be a need for everyone to try and see the humor in life. If not for finding the humor in stressful situations, I think there would be much more violence in the world. Today’s fast paced world leaves little time for relaxing and forgetting the stress of everyday life. It’s almost impossible to know when to plan a time for letting it all go. It seems like when you're busy all the time, planning a time to relax is the only way it will happen. When starved for relaxation, it seems like a no brainer to try something different. Seeing stressful situations as humorous can make a bad situation into something that could end up being one that you will remember as a high point in your life. It could have the potential to make you realize that anger just makes things even more stressful.

Anger can not only affect you in a non healthy way but can also affect the people around you. Have you ever noticed that laughter can be very contagious? It’s very hard to be mad at someone that makes you laugh. Do you believe that a person’s mood can have an effect on the people around them? Karma is defined by me as whatever vibe you put out in the world reflects off others and comes back to you. I believe this is true and have proven it to myself on many occasions. A perfect example would be when someone aggressively confronts you in an angry manor. The first instinct you have is to defend yourself. This situation can soon anger you, but if someone initiates a conversation, in a friendly joking manor, you tend to let your defenses down and relax. Putting humor out into the world will only benefit the world as long as it is done in a good way. Humiliating someone else may seem funny at times but only sends negative energy into the world.

Sending positive energy and good vibes into the world has an almost magnetic effect on positive energy. Every situation you encounter could potentially become a positive one, if dealt with in a positive way. This can be very hard to do. Many people are set in their ways and use negative energy to make themselves feel better. Yes, anger can be a good stress reliever but can also come back to haunt you when you are having a good day. So even if a person’s negative actions don’t have repercussions right away, they can still ruin your day at another time and place. To me there is nothing worse than re-living a bad day.

Letting anger and hostility control you is a sure way to secure the same stressful outcome every time. I think everyone has an image of who they want to be, echoing inside their mind. It’s just a matter of pointing this reflection of yourself in the right direction. A reflection only needs a small eyelet to glimmer through. Laughter is the counterpart to stress and anger. It needs only a small breach to seep out and induce you into leaving it all behind.