It’s your birthday, you take a long look at your life and realize you’re nowhere near you wanted to be by this point. You might be in your 20’s, 30’s or 40’s and your love life, your career or your financial situation is in the shit and the time seems to be running out.
You might have been going down a path that’s not working out for you and you might be ready for a more radical shift than what you’ve been able to do so far. The most valuable things in life tend to be in the direction we’re most afraid to look in and there might be a shift in perspective that’s waiting for you if you only let it in.
The cool thing about shifts in perspective is that they occur in one instant and after that everything changes. I was a bachelor and lonely as hell for about 10 years when something shifted and I decided to sign up to an intensive how-to-talk-to-girls course. Never in my wildest dreams have I imagine that the shy, geeky, meek me would be able to come up to a random girl at a shopping mall and strike up a conversation and here I was, signing up for a two weekend course that promised to teach me to do just that. Signing up for that changed my perspective in a radical way – if I could learn to do this, something I thought to be unattainable magic until then, what else could I learn to do? Could I, <gasp>, sing?
Whether you’re 36, 56 or 96, a shift of perspective is always possible, and a new path can always open up, will open up, if we’re willing to listen. In Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl,(the guy who survived the holocaust to change the world of psychotherapy) has some profound things to say about dealing with impossible circumstances: “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
My perspective changes, sometimes radically, every time I use Wuju, and my world changes with it. I hope yours does too.