5/31/16

Today's Horoscope

All signs:

Today is the first day of the rest of your life. An old, clichéd saying for sure, but it's true. The thing is, that probably doesn't mean it's going to be any different from any other day so far.

You will have the opportunity to change your life, to make it better, to achieve more, to get it back on the right course. You should take that opportunity.

Just understand it will most likely be a small (or very big!) step in the right direction, but it will be the first day of a long, hard road back to the light in many cases.

You will find many reasons to quit, and go back to your old habits. You will slip up and fail from time to time.  That’s what happens, no one is perfect.  Don’t expect yourself to be.  Don’t get down on yourself, or disappointed or feel ashamed because you didn’t live up to some ridiculous standard you have for yourself.

Pick yourself up, admonish yourself for a moment if you must, then resolve to do better.  Don’t let a momentary setback become an excuse to sink into misery and self loathing and give up.  You have lived that day before.

Today is the day you can try something different.  Today is the day you can be someone you always wanted to be.  Today is the day you can change even a tiny behavior that steals some of your self esteem.  Today you can decide that you want to grow as a person, and maybe jettison someone that is holding you back.   Today you take that first step towards making your whole life better.  Today you can take that first difficult step towards making your dreams come true.  

Or you can just keep going on the way you were, which is what our brains want us to do.  We become accustomed to what we see and do everyday.  We quickly accept the loneliness, the tedium, the abuse, the pain of everyday living when we know we aren’t satisfied but too frozen to move ahead.  Our brains tell us that while they know we aren’t fulfilled, the alternative could be worse.  Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t.  

If you find your life has arrived at the point where you need to pick between devils, maybe you need to change your life.  

So you can continue to live a half life, tolerable but with the mild irritation that goes with denial.  You can keep walking the path you’re on, afraid to look up to see where you’re going, because you know and you can’t bear to look.  You can keep facing the day, knowing that you are letting yourself and the people around you down in so many ways, and feeling anger and resentment to mask the fact that you know what you should be doing.  You can awake every morning, and set out on the same course, the one that brings you vague dissatisfaction or pain and misery or self hatred.  But why in the world would you do that?  If you find you have no answer to that question, that is your answer right there.

You have lived that day before.