What do you do, where do you go, when everything that you've based your life on doesn't make you happy anymore?
That is a question most of us have to answer at some point in our lives. It may be that we simply need to shift the focus a bit, move a little closer to some friends and away from others, or re-adjust our eating habits, or change jobs. It may mean taking a long hard look at what we have been clinging to for security.
The idea of any port in a storm is good, but when life becomes one long storm, maybe I need to head out towards some specific port where the values are a little more stable.
That old joke about what happens if you keep doing the same things and expecting different results? It's no joke. Something has to change if I'm not happy. The hubris of stubbornly doing things one way because I always have, or because Mom did it that way, or because I am afraid to change, will eventually kill me -- in spirit if not physically.
I have honestly found it necessary to start almost completely over at least twice in my life, but there have always been little changes here and there. I'm not the woman I was at eighteen, or thirty, or even fifty and I'm not the woman I will be at seventy, or eighty, or ninety!
I can be content and even happy if I allow myself the luxury of being honest with myself.
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