The Cycle that Binds

 It is easy if you are like me, to turn your nose up in pride at all those posturing into the new year with affirmations that many of us have heard a million times. Very little if anything changes, apart from the year and the body that continues to waste away, with each one of us tittering on the brink of expiration as it were. 

                                                     The Fwexie

Will it be the latest super virus, a truck or some lengthy illness that will finally put out the lights? Its a question for those who are left behind... thankfully.

The question though is whether really these affirmations achieve anything beyond the warm feeling one gets in the pit of their stomach. Does it all blow away as soon as the sound of the fireworks recedes into the background, as soon as the fiery explosive smoke clears? Perhaps that is the whole point, the warm feeling accompanying a so called new beginning, even when deep down one knows that its the continuation of a long tradition of habits, shoehorned and hardened over years and years of moving within the same circles.

Someone told me about a vision board. Which is basically a more visual way of saying the same things. A colorful collection of images, only recently released from memewood (with some soon to  make it back into memewood). What is the point you ask, what is the point of it all. There is no point, that is the point. Do you, be happy, be sad, be anything. That is the point. Nothing. Stale, insipid, lukewarm, having neither acidity no brine, nothing at all.

If it feels like nothing has changed, most likely you are right. Thirteen days in, is just the same as a month or 180 days, till the next cycle comes and once again its time to dig and dust off old expectations that have haunted you for the past 15 years. I guess all I am saying is " Just do it!!!!"