#285: One Different Choice

I thought I was too close to hitting rock bottom. But as I go down, I can’t see the end of it, or hear that crashing sound. I badly want to reach it, that last bottom, so that I can reach the other side and start climbing. It doesn’t come. It doesn’t make a sound. But, wait! Should it really make a sound?!
Maybe I have reached it, soundlessly, but I can’t yet see the other side I am supposed to climb. Maybe, I have reached it slowly, so I didn’t crash!
Or maybe.. Maybe I haven’t reached it yet, but it’s getting narrower that maybe if I focused and looked thoughtfully, I could see a way to the other side, take a leap of faith and jump to it. Is it?!

A dear friend and mentor once said that sometimes change is so simple that it goes by unnoticed. That sometimes to make that huge change you’re seeking, you may only need to make only one different choice. One choice. And that’s it. Boom.. Your whole life is different. One simple choice, like, taking the metro, and not a taxi. Or deciding not to buy that chocolate you got addicted to eating before you sleep. The simple things. The little things. The tiny details. Where all things that truly matter exist. But I have learned, and those are the things you don’t learn by book, that to really make that change, you need to consistently choose that same different choice everyday, until it becomes not different anymore.

I know this time that writing will save me. As it always did. May you enjoy it, as I will. And I hope you try it out. A 10 mins of writing your heart and mind.. every day.