On Risks and Beginnings

Take the step to become better. Daily. (Google image)

Some say the hardest part of all is to begin. Whether in starting a work of literature—a poem, or a story perhaps—or starting a new phase in life. It is difficult to begin especially when you are not sure where things might end up later: you may end up regretting a decision or end up overhauling an entire composition just because the beginning doesn't sit well with the rest of the story, especially with the ending.

But it is the beauty of uncertainty that makes beginnings wonderful and rather exciting. It is the risk that comes with starting again that makes beginning a worthwhile journey of discovery, and well, awakening. I like the part that says beginnings are wonderful because of possibilities. And it’s true. Possibilities are there for the taking, but the question is, will you have the courage to begin again? Will you take that one, necessary little step that will let you embark at another journey? 

For all my life I've been taught to take careful thoughts about the steps I will take, to make sure I will not step on the wrong direction thus wasting away precious time and effort. But I've learned also that the only way you can go from point A to point B is to TAKE A STEP. That the beginning step is essential to all that is to come. That beginnings are a kind of risk we can't avoid if we want to grow and mature personally.

To begin is hard, but only if it is not clear to us why we should. And only when we become intimately acquainted with our deepest desires and aspirations, and realign them into a higher purpose, that beginnings turn into great opportunities. Beginnings can be liberating when we know that at the end of the day, a wonderful destination awaits us. So take the step. And have the courage to begin anew.

Happy first of December! Cheers to all the wonderful things ahead!