New end

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending”.
Maria Robinson

I always wished that I could just go somewhere and make a new beginning. After a failed marriage, leaving the job I thought was made just for me and a string of failed relationships, I always desired to go away and start over. Often times I find myself thinking if only there was a way to reverse all of the wrong decisions I have made thus far it would be a clean slate.

One day I woke up and realized what my mom had been saying all these years was just the honest-to-God-truth. The decisions you make today will affect the rest of your life. It is impossible for me to go back and try to change what has been done. What’s even worse is that I can’t go back and start a new beginning. The day we were born and started making decisions we had already begun.

I know we face just about the same things in our lives, just at different times and stages. The outcomes are different by our reactions to these situations, but mostly the experience gained is the same.

We can’t change the past. Mistakes we’ve made are now ingrained in our being. However, no one is too bad to start today and write a new ending to a stereotype. We are the authors of our own lives. We can allow people to give their opinion of us, but in the end, it is what we have written on our slates. That is what we are characterized by, our ending. A lot of people have done what they did, but when these people decide on change, all we can almost remember is how bad they were and how much they have changed.

My challenge to you is to change your end by making a start today. No, it won’t erase mistakes, errors or even the remote stupidity that we have acted out of, but it will definitely bring about the desired result of a new end.