Making Yourself Over
How much of our healing is in knowing that we can re-fashion ourselves? Like the impetuosity of youth, once fully grown, we recklessly squander our potential with fruitless attempts to avoid looking at ourselves as beings fully capable of self transformation. Our mistakes haunt us so; we flee from them and thus ourselves through mindless activities or, occasionally more meaningful distractions. Yet, all we have is now and what we choose to make of it. Every day I think about what I want to do with my life because everyday I am faced with a new opportunity, a choice about who I will be. The words “I can’t” are not an admission of failure or even a statement of fear; it is perhaps the most brazen example of ego. I can’t, is more akin to, I choose not...
