23 days to a Fresh Start-Again

It’s hard to resist: the chance for a new beginning. The NEW YEAR, the day of chance! Like the CHANCE card on a Monopoly Board. The chance to put the problems of last year to bed. The chance to make amends. Oh yes: A FRESH START! 

 

But there is a small, yet significant difference between the word and its meaning. I mean Think about it: IT'S NOT FRESH! It's staleness at its peak. Like day old bread, only a day, and the old stench, the old, musty stench, puts the FRESH START to rest, where it will lay dormant. Neither pushing forward nor holding back. Letting its o-c-d roommate: "rhetoric bullshit" rule the roost...that is until next year. And you convince yourself that the day is coming..the day of Chance! The New Year...

So here we are, December 9, 2010 and the conundrum is this: My life has had an abundance of fresh starts. In fact you might say years of them.  Wait for it... Not one fresh start ever stuck around long enough to stay fresh.  In 24 hours the NEW is already OLD.

23 Days to change the magnetic field of negative and create a new and formidable Fresh Start that will stay fresh! Can I do it, I ask the ones who know me best...can my day of chance cocoon into a day of grounded change? Well, that is what we will find out....A Series of Unfortunate Events has led me here and so I dedicate this blog to one of my childhood literary favorites: Lemony Snicket.

Each blog will end with a passage of wisdom taken from a random volume. Oh and how appropriate that today's quote comes from:Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid.  Karma can be a mother of a bitch! 

 

 

"Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world, and that nobody loves them now and that nobody will ever love them, and that they will never have a decent night's sleep again and will spend their lives wandering blearily around a loveless landscape, hoping desperately that their circumstances will improve, but suspecting, in their heart of hearts, that they will remain unloved forever. The best thing to do in these circumstances is to wake somebody else up, so that they can feel this way, too."