Changing

It's so easy to fall back into the rhythm of mundane life.  Wake up, work, exercise, eat dinner, go to bed.  Repeat.  It's easy to forget about the people around you, to make them as routine as each day.  To go months without seeing a good friend, or days without really having a good conversation.  But what is life without those friendships, without laughter, without spontaneity?  Do we live to work or work to live?  How do we break free of this repetitive cycle of sameness?  How do we really live life?  I have been so challenged by these questions these past few weeks, because for me, it's so much easier to live life on repeat.  But I have realized that life on repeat is meaningless.  That life with no challenges is boring.  That life without love, without deep relationships, is not life at all.  And so I will try to break free from this rhythm and start walking to another beat.  A beat that is off and strange, that is foreign to my normal.  A beat that makes me feel uncomfortable, a beat that challenges me to really live.