The Girl in the Red Sweater

Have you ever noticed it’s easier to live with your mundane life, struggling as you may sometimes to make it to that five-o’clock cutoff, than it is to actually sit back and reevaluate your priorities? It’s like we get stuck in that comfort zone of knowing what discomforts we must endure to stay where we are, rather than enduring unknown discomforts in order to reach a new level of comfort.

Many times I feel swept up in the rush of the ordinary. Groceries must be bought, clothes must be washed, and sometimes I just have to sit back and curl up under the warm covers with a fascinating book for an evening. Although I find plenty of time to watch an hour or two of TV every day, I always put off setting goals because it’s just easier to do something else.

So goal setting is — well, my new goal. It’s hard to work toward something when you don’t know what you’re working toward. I’m usually going in about five different directions, and it sure would be a lot faster if I had one specific destination to push on toward.

Anyway, I’d rather struggle a little with some critical thinking, come up with some real dreams, and start pursuing them — have the hope of actually getting somewhere with my life — than end up not doing anything with my life because I felt like I never had time to figure out what I wanted. Maybe I’ll feel tired sometimes because I stayed up writing about what I could do with my life, but I’d rather be tired but trying than rested but helpless.

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