Blog #737: Going to the Masquerade Party?

Below are some lousy realities.
I hope one doesn’t belong to you.

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Feeling any of these?

“I’m getting old…and in constant pain.”

“I’m in debt…and it’s getting worse.”

“I’m in a bad relationship…but can’t leave.”

“My job sucks the life out of me…but I need the check.”

“I’ve lived over half my life…and I’m discouraged with where I am.”

“I’m not selling much…and thinking of quitting this gig.”

“I’ve tried the online dating thing…and am depressed by it all.”

“I need to drink at night…just to balance the stress of my day.”

Or is one of these a better match?

“I ignore the truth.”

“I pretend it’s okay.”

“I hurt behind a fake smile.”

“I masquerade behind happy social media posts.”

Did I hit one?

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You ask…

“Why go there?”

I ask…

“Why live there?”

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Why waste life living the lousy or the fake?

Why pretend for others for five minutes a day…

When we have to live our “real” 24 hours a day?

We can continue to live in the pretty and fake pictures we’ve painted…

But is “pretty fake” how we want to have lived our one, precious life?

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Our choice?

If our reality sucks, it’s time we live something different.

If you’re old and bitter…do you want to keep living in misery?

If your debt keeps increasing…do you want to keep adding $100 bills to it?

If a person’s negativity continues to drown you…do you want to go deeper?

Just how much of your reality can you keep living?

Why continue to dwell on the history we cannot change?

Why wake up every Monday and dread the upcoming week?

Why stay in the relationship that steals joy and deflates self-esteem?

None of it makes sense.

Yet we choose to live it.

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Seventeen years of writing this blog has taught me…

60% of my subscribers won’t open this blog today.

The other 40%?

A couple will read it …and unsubscribe.

Thousands will skim my words…and hit delete.

A few will read it and say…”Oh shit! He’s writing to me!”

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For those few who I wrote this blog for today…

Here’s how to change your reality.

Choose to live different.

Make different decisions.

Choose different attitudes.

Take different actions.

Carry different commitments.

That’s how we start changing the reality we don’t like.

And if living something different is what we passionately desire…

Then let’s pin those four reality changers to our brains.

Or at least to a bathroom mirror.

S.