progress

it’s good to feel scared, it means you have something to lose.

forgiveness

in life, only one thing is certain…apart from death and taxes.  no matter how hard you try, no matter how good your intentions, you are going to make mistakes.  you’re going to hurt people, you’re going to get hurt, and if you ever want to recover, there’s really only one thing you can say.  forgive and forget.  that’s what they say.  it’s good advice, but it’s not very practical.  when someone hurts us, we want to hurt them back.  when someone wrongs us, we want to be right.  without forgiveness old scores are never settled, old wounds never heal and the most we can hope for is that one day we can be lucky enough to forget.

addiction

it’s shocking how many kinds of addiction exist.  it would be too easy if it was just drugs and booze and cigarettes.  i think the hardest part of kicking a habit is wanting to kick it.  we get addicted for a reason, right?  often, too often, things that start out as just a normal part of your life at some point cross the line turn to obsessive, compulsive, out of control.  it’s the high we’re chasing, the high that makes everything else fade away.

the thing about addiction is that it never ends well because eventually whatever it is that was getting us high stops feeling good and starts to hurt.  still they say you don’t kick the habit until you hit rock bottom, but how do you know when you’re there?  no matter how badly it is hurting us, sometimes letting it go hurts even worse.

change

change…we don’t like it, we fear it, but we can’t stop it from coming.  we either adapt to change, or we get left behind.  it hurts to grow, anybody that tells you it doesn’t, is lying.  but here’s the truth.  the more things change, the more they stay the same….and sometimes change is good.  sometimes change is everything.