"How are you doing, sis?" "I'm great, sis." For a very long time I've been lying to myself and anyone who cared enough to ask me how I'm doing. The truth is, no, I'm not doing great, I'm barely living. But, I'm great health-wise. In a matter of 9 months, I went from a cholesterol level of 302 down to 162, my blood pressure used to be at 150/90, now it's at 126/78, all my blood work from March of this year was at dangerous levels. My doctor commended me and said she was very impressed with the improvement I'd made with my health. I improved my health through hard work. I jogged for one hour every morning, gave up junk food, stopped eating fried foods, and stopped eating red meat, I never weighed myself, because I wasn't doing it to lose weight, I was doing it to save my life. I used to weigh 150 lbs, now I weigh 139 lbs. Most days I only ate once a day because I was overwhelmed and anxiety ridden, oh yeah, a...
We spend a great deal of time thinking about the changes we want to make in our lives, however, we fail to make those changes for one reason or another. To us, we have logically valid reasons why we don't make those changes. Most of the time we fear the unknown; we don't know what the outcome of our change; we're afraid of letting go of the known for the unknown. So, what do we do instead? We settle for the known, we watch our souls wither, until we don't recognize ourselves.