change your habits, change your ways

i think the one thing that we should try our best never to give up on is enthusiasm. to forever be enthusiastic of whatever ventures we find ourselves on is a blessing as there is always hope for the future and a driving force for us to continue pursuing whatever it is that we want to call our own.

in growing up i consciously find myself losing the willpower or choosing deliberately to be reluctant in whatever situation i find myself to be because of that assumption that we know the outcome and that we might very well be disappointed. the enthusiasm of young hopeful eyes of children are long gone and slowly we allow ourselves to be eaten up by the mundane.

another thing is ease. nothing comes easy in life and nothing that is ever worth anything will come by without will and hard work. call it the old soul in me but i believe things come too easy to us nowadays. everything is handed onto a silver platter and everything is so accessible that we lose touch of the value behind things and the thought that should be given towards the actions that we take. information is vast, materials are plenty and suddenly we face an abundance of everything and slowly we are sucked into a world of just plain too much.

I find myself this way often, spending hours in front of the computer doing nothing really, but feeling as if I have so much to do. I believe we have to choose between what is necessary for ourselves and what we have unconsciously allowed ourselves to believe is necessity.

all in all, we allow the ourselves to be dictated by what is around us instead of choosing for ourselves what we wish to accomplish and strive for in life. and that is where enthusiasm is lost, because there is no will and there is no passion.

although I am a few weeks late i have found that resolution which i wish to strive for this year, to remain enthusiastic and willful in everything i choose to do. and to slow down and take each day as it comes to become a better version of myself that i was the day before, because these simple things are what accounts for in the bigger picture and the simple everyday action is what drives you towards what you aim to achieve.

what do you want to strive for?