Resistance

I have resisted starting this blog. It seems that everybody is blogging, tweeting and facebooking. A blog sounded like one more thing in my life requiring a babysitter. Its not just the blog itself, but my resistance to writing. I've had a love/hate relationship with writing my whole life. Do you keep a journal? Sure! Do you know where it is? I think so. The thing is, I've been learning soooo much in such a short period of time that I've found it necessary to get it down in writing so it doesn't slip away.

It's funny how we get so stuck in our own paradigms. I was so sure I hated writing, and yet, a few years ago I took a writing class at BYU and discovered that I actually enjoyed it. Even with that, I kept resisting the impulse to write. This kind of stuck attitude reminds me of  meatloaf. A lot of people didn't care for their mother's meatloaf growing up. This is true in our family. Now that I'm in charge, I make meatloaf how I like it, and it so happens that the rest of my family also likes it. Yet, when they ask, "what's for dinner" and I say "Meatloaf", the response is an automatic eeewww!. I have to remind them that they actually like MY meatloaf, and of course they gobble it up as usual.

We resist all kinds of things - out of habit. New ideas are all around us, stuff that would make us more aware, happier, and more joyful, but we remain stuck in a box. How do we break out of the box? Many times it takes something dramatic, like a serious injury, or a life changing event. Just think how cool it would be to just start poking holes in the box. If you poke enough holes, pretty soon the light comes in and we start calling out to anyone out there with a hatchet! There is wisdom in doing this slowly, however. Like a bird hatching from it's egg, we need to experience the breaking out. We build our strength by our struggle, but we can peek out of the holes and receive wisdom, comfort and advice. There are lots of special souls already out of their boxes. They're all around us. However, they can't give us help until we ask for it, if they tried it would scare the crap out of us!