All that we can be

Stress makes us believe that sorrow will never end but to the wonder of all and seemingly by a law divine, things change, nothing not even the deepest melancholy lasts forever, and that is when you realise that times of trouble can be like a rain storm, on an otherwise summers day everything seems brighter and more colourful once it has passed.  Ostler wrote “Everywhere the old order changes, and happy those who change with it”.

We are constantly making decisions and choices based on experience, and that leads us to dwell on how it is, instead of focussing on how it can be. Changing anything is characteristically uncertain; it generates conflict and divides opinion, changing things requires energy, motivation and support. Therefore resistance to change is natural and inevitable.

Even if you haven’t the will to change things, change will happen, even in the coldest winter of your deepest despair, the snow will melt and spring will appear, and whenever we overcome adversity learning takes place, we grow a little. Life becomes bearable again, we have learnt how to cope and we will be able to move forward.

 “The illiterates of the 21^st century will not be those who cannot read and write but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn”. Toffler 2001

STAND IN THE COMPANY OF DREAMERS

There is nothing holds back happiness like a life lived with regret. T.S. Eliot wrote ‘Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened’.

Have you lived the life you imagined, have you realised your dreams? Did you try, even if you failed, or between the idea and the reality did the shadow of uncertainty fall and your courage fail?

Darwin believed that ‘A fool is a man who has never tried an experiment in his life’. It is not inevitable that we lose sight of the life we wanted in living. So whatever stage of your life you are at don’t let it be marked by a dream that is dying but by one that is being born.

It is never too late to begin again, to reinvent yourself, think of every venture as a new beginning, something you try may change your life for the better. After all, if you are at the bottom you have nowhere to fall but off, and that is just one flick of the switch to being back on again.

    "We are the music makers; we are the dreamers of dreams. We are the movers and shakers of the world forever it seems."Arthur O'Shaughnessy