Room by room

At the start of every year (or the end, depending on when you make up your mind) we make resolutions--things we are going to change in the months ahead...Ellen Goodman writes,

"We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives … not looking for flaws, but for potential."

I prefer this way of looking at it.

If you had told me a year ago, this would be my life--I probably wouldn't have believed you. 2011 was a year of significant change, all of which has the potential to make me a stronger, wiser, person. Though, I am still reeling from some of it--2012, I am hopeful will be a year of even greater personal growth.

I am cleaning house. Going through and getting rid of the things I don't need and dusting off parts of myself that have been in storage for far too long.

As I go through the rooms, there are times where I stumble across a photograph or a object that triggers a memory. And like a going through that old box in the attic, there is an emotional response. I am working hard to manage these moments.
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