With today being National Kindness Day, I felt it only appropriate to pay homage to one of the best humans to ever grace this Earth. One who I, and possibly you, grew up watching. Someone who helped us find our dreams, morals, and passions through his words and adventures.
We have grown to become end-seeking entities. We strive to find the end of hard times, or to finally be successful, or to stop feeling sad. We struggle to see that all of these things may be beginnings – the first step to a better life, the realization you want more, a positive change. We see life as the fight to find an end, an outcome, rather than a constant series of new beginnings. We see sadness over a break-up as the end of something we found happiness in, rather than the beginning of something possibly even better. It presents an opportunity to find ourselves, to fix things that we need to fix. We realize our major isn’t what we had hoped for an contemplate changing, seeing it as a failure rather than the ability to start again in a program where we find our happiness.
It isn’t easy to see the cup half full when you feel like said cup is cracked and you’re riding a rollercoaster, but we have to try. The easiest way to see something in a better light is quite simple – see it in a better light. Find the silver-linings, take a page from the book written by the cardigan’d wonder. Be kind to your neighbors. Say hello to a stranger. Not only are we responsible for embracing our own beginnings, we must try to help others find theirs. A simple hello may be the factor that makes someone see today as a beginning rather than an end.
See the endings as the beginning of something even better.
Deconstructed Echos 