Its amazing the people you meet when you are traveling and the relationships that can very quickly develop. Its as though you just end up meeting all the right people when you are ment to and its as if, the choices you made to be where you were at that moment were partly becuase you were ment to meet that person or group of people. Thats pretty much how I feel about the people I met along my journey through Uganda, Kenya and England.. and in the months that have followed my return they continue to challenge my thinking and thoughts. This post is for you Louise :)
So with the beginning of a new year, there is always the momentum to get things going, to be optmistic, to rid the wrongs of the year before and to boldly change who you are so that you can finally begin to be the person you want to be. That momentum is always there for at least most of January, but ever wonder why as February hits most of that optimism begins to fade, and we all fall back into the usual mundaine patterns of the day to day??
Now i know most of us want to blame it on the cold weather, which is likely where my thoughts were headed. But based on an article that was referred to me its said that Hope and Optimism are two things that the human race is just not good at in general.
The article says that the reason we are not very good at the idea of hope and optimism is becuase we convince ourselves that if we do not show our hope and optimism for a certain situation then when or if it doesnt work out then we can tell ourselves "well at least I didnt get my hopes up". Interesting thought, that actually brings me back to many moments where i experienced failure of one kind or another. And it is true. Its as though secretly we have imagined all the good, but wont say it out loud becuase once its been said, and your feelings been shown the pressure of it not working out increases as you feel as though you have more to lose now.
So while this all makes sence, my question is at what point do we just brave it out? and decide screw the hurt that could happen and instead live and take chances? I mean isn't failing to show hope and optimism a way of settling? And don't we all go through life advising each other to never settle due to our amazingness (and yes i totally just made that word up!)??
The whole idea of being optimistic and showing how hopeful you are, I believe dies with age, which stems from something I once heard. It is said that as you get older, you are suppose to remember what it was like to be 18 and live life that way in some respects...becuase the older you get the more jaded you are and you have the weight of past failures, heartbreaks and roadblocks on your shoulders everyday of your life. So by remembering what it was like to be 18, its almost as if you face everything with a more naive mind that keeps you hopeful that this time things will be different...
I am definately no stranger to failing to show hope and optimism, but as I am beginning realize sometimes the bad things that happen, just happen for a reason and as you move through life all the bad suddenly begins to make sence, because you are just moving closer to where you are ment to end up and that end point is usually where you realize that all that bulshit was worth it :)
Soo in closing, sometimes we just gotta live like we're 18, just so we can all get closer to realizing WHY THE HELLLL WE HAD TO PUT UP WITH ALL THESE GROWING PAINS IN THE FIRST PLACE :)
thats it for now
-A
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