So at a time like this, when we just turned the last month and last day of the calendar and ease slowly onto the new year ahead, do you ever stop and wonder what things you’d like to leave behind as you move forward?
Don’t ever forget to remember, that everything happens for a reason, especially on the things you cannot control. But in the smaller scale of things you can, indeed, control, we have to be able to decide which ones we’ll never let happen again. It is through the years, where we can show what we’ve learned from the past, so we don’t run our lives blindly ahead.
I’ve learned very well last year to suck it up and let the motions roll. But I’d like to leave behind my passive aggressive approach to things and I’m deciding to make more action instead of just rumination.
Decide which side you’re on. Some people don’t even want to choose sides altogether. Some aren’t even aware there were sides to begin with. For a time, I could say I was one of them. Being on the safe side, and impartial, was the best way to go. Or had I thought differently? For 2012, I’d like to take convictions by the horns and decide where I believe in. I know my values, and I will carry it over 2012. I will never compromise them again, as I have, in 2011.
The Thesaurus illustrates clearly - the antonym of Integrity is Dishonesty. There is no half and half. I had thought it was possible to strike a balance between keeping your integrity and at the same time getting your hands dirty, too. Turns out, there is no such thing. And I apologize for having believed in that notion in 2011. With all the lies I’ve been told last year, it makes me wonder why my sense of hearing had not been taken away from me by the higher power who gave it to me in the first place. Moving forward, I’d like my integrity intact, with no room for half and half.
2011 was a tough year. Ended with a bang, even. But there’s no better time to leave it all behind.
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