I had an opportunity (or should I say urgency) to speak to the artists in our next project on February (The Voyage of the Lass), it gave me an idea, that coincides with the date, December 1. I coined it beginning of the end. I told them figuratively, it’s the start of the end, start of the last month of the year.
And while saying so, many ideas sprung out of my mind.
One notion was that for people to have a better life, we should make a conscious effort to start saying goodbye to our old “bad” selves. What I mean is that to have that commitment to objectively look at ourselves to find out the “bad” in us and say goodbye to them, one by one.
For these old bad habits or thoughts or behavior hinders us and will definitely hamper our chances of getting the best things that we ask for in life.
The same principle is used by once overweight people. They achieved their dream weight after they consciously committed to begin ending their old bad eating habits and start renewing their mindset.
Even, the Bible tells one of this principle, (actually there is more to this, but I will just point one).
Isaiah 43:18 “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past.” (niv) or “Do not remember the former things, Nor consider the things of the old.” (NKJV).
This is when God rebuked Israel of their “old” sinful selves were doing. Thus, the Israelites were not seeing the best things that God can do for them.
Same thing goes to us. The moment we continue doing our old bad habits, we wouldn’t be able to move forward to what lies ahead of us. Not to mention, the lost of focus to what can be in store for our future is sidelined due to our rekindling of the past (that’s another matter to discuss).
What’s worse to think of is that these old bad things in us are just little “monsters” that grew stronger and stronger due to our lack of conscious effort to end them.
In short, I believe that the moment we begin ending these bad thoughts, habits and behavior in us, we will be closer to the better life in store for us. And no one can hinder us in moving towards a better life, except for us – especially the bad part of us.
Thus, as a good starting point as it may appear, December 1 may be a good starting point for us all, the beginning of the ending month of the year. And as we do that, we are declaring to ourselves coincidentally that we are leaving our old selves to the old year – and start renewing our minds to start the new year.
Rey Belen