.....Excitement

You know what makes the world so exciting? The fact that every day you have an opportunity to do anything you desire.

Now I don’t mean that if you wake up one morning and decide you want to be a runway model you will be working the catwalk by sundown. Clearly unrealistic. What you can do though is move your life in that direction.

I have a friend that for the first time in their life they have no idea which direction to head. To them, it was such an unsettling place to be, they felt so lost. To me it’s the most exciting place to be. You have the chance to go anywhere, do anything, and try everything.

Don’t like the job you have? Look for another one. Don’t like where you live? Move. Don’t like the relationship you’re in? Get out. The reality is you and only you have the ability to change anything and everything about your life. The problem comes in with our built in need for instant gratification and wanting everything to come easy. That is NOT reality.

True change, worthwhile change, takes time and work, but that shouldn’t take away from the excitement of it. Really sit and think about it for a minute, the amazingness of the ability to change direction at any moment. Life is too precious and too short to continuing a direction because it’s familiar and comfortable. I’m not saying you should keep your life in perpetual motion and never settle down, absolutely not, nor am I saying that if something gets too difficult you give up and walk away. If you are truly unhappy with your current circumstance, not just momentarily annoyed, change direction.

I learned a life lesson from a car’s navigation system the other day. There was an address programmed into the navigation system and every time I drove somewhere the system came up with a route to that address. When I would miss a turn it would pause for a few seconds and come up with a new route; always finding a way to the original destination, no matter how many detours along the way. It became a game between me and the navigation system to see if I could stump it. I never did, it always found a way back to the original destination. I realized that this is a lesson for us with our lives. We all have a destination, an end goal, whatever that may be and some days you may not even know yourself what that destination is. The game, the exciting part, the thing that makes life so incredibly amazing is the detours along the way.

For a lot of people change is a scary thing, and yes there something frightening about the unknown. Don’t let that fear prevent you from the excitement of the life you deserve. Try everything, experience all possibilities, fall flat on your face when required, make a fool of yourself on a daily basis, and savor the deliciousness of every morsel of your life.