Everyone makes them. I make them, you make them, well, you get the point. The important thing is that you make whatever you did wrong right. You say sorry, you acknowledge what you did, and you do your best to not do it again. Change isn't easy. It is a hard and lengthy process for most people and some people never really change. One thing this culture does, is make it ok for us to ignore reality, and facing reality is what helps us change. We ignore reality with our credit cards and spending beyond our means. We ignore reality when we make mistakes and don't say sorry, we ignore reality by watching TV. TV has been called the "opiate of the masses", it allows us to zone out, become passive, and it allows us to avoid. Our lives would be so much better without it, because if we absolutely had to face our realities, then we would be inclined to work our hardest to change whatever we aren't happy with. But because of our passive lives and the lives we see on TV the world seems so much harder than it is, and this is ridiculous because it is already pretty damn hard! Dealing with problems allows you to move on and change, and for the most part the way we live now stops this from being any easier. We would be happier, less fat, less depressed, less anxious about dealing with our lives if we were not so used to avoiding people. I am not saying stopping the patterns will be easy... for anyone, (yes, me too). As people say... Change is Hard.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Barack Obama
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