I Never Looked At It That Way Before

As I read from "Stitches" by Anne Lamott recently I got to musing about changing.  I thought of an imaginary friend who might be a blend of all my friends and loved ones and enemies and the strangers all around me.  I thought about this person getting older and being crippled.  He or she is crippled by convictions, by childhood beliefs, by a certain way of thinking.  Being crippled he or she cannot reach forward, cannot find new possibilities, and will not get happy or fulfilled or even hopeful.

I thought about this "friend", who might even be me, and someone saying:  "What's to stop you from letting that crap go and getting on with your life?"

In Terry Goodkind's way of putting it, "Why not focus on a solution and quit the focus on the problem?"

I would add, "Especially since the problem is decades old, and doesn't even exist anymore."

What keeps me, what keeps you, what keeps our friends so attached to the past that we cannot enter a different future?

I wonder about things like this.  Do you?  Leave a comment and let us know.