Turning A New Leaf Has Always Been An Enigma

 

WHEN I was a neophyte in the workforce, I envisioned myself getting into office early every day, spending several hours virtuously with my daily task list and then knocking off from work by 5pm, to drive home, weaving through the metro traffic gridlock [WHICH simply worsened beyond the seams till to date].  And I thought that I'll be Turning Over a New Leaf BUT that has always been an enigma📗📙📘

Instead, by the time I did hit the sack, I was lying awake all night, agonizing over everything I'd said that day, sleeping late and rolling into office come next day pretty much in bad shape.  And at that point, I was like drowning in self-recrimination.  Paradoxically, the office I dreamed off for the longest time now felt like the scene of a crime I had committed against myself.  And it seemed that I'd killed off my chance for a good day before I've ever gotten out of bed and by then, there was nothing I could do to resuscitate it.  So, I ended up occupying myself with some busywork💥💥💥

Surely, some of you would have had those similar mornings OR afternoons or weeks I went through.  True, there are good reasons WHY we wind up thinking about changes this way BUT the thing that turns this into a trap is that it is a problem that disguises itself as a solution.  Problem is, the more we try to do it right from the beginning, the more stuck we become😌😌😌

So, WHAT's our fix here?  I WON'T mince words here and I'll bluntly say that, WHERE possible, NEVER wait for you to end up like a dried, worn out leaf to egg you to TURN OVER A NEW LEAF.  In layman's terms, NEVER wait for the last alarm and final warning siren to push you into action.  YES, at times we may feel seemingly stuck BUT we DON'T have to stay stuck on the lame and 'inexcusable' excuse that we have been overtaken by events because that is just 'inexcusable'❌❌❌

Our takeaway:  The most apt parallelism we can draw here is in LEARNING itself because THAT DIDN'T stop WHEN we graduated and left our university's portals.  And THAT DIDN'T stop WHEN we started to receive our monthly pay cheque.  WHY?  Because everything in life has an EXPIRATION DATE.  Nothing is embedded in the cobbled stones and concrete.  We got to refresh ourselves, reinvent and reinforce our very own self even if TURNING A NEW LEAF has always been like an ENIGMA😊😊😊