The Hardest Thing to Accept in Life

Sometimes you have to Start Over.

Holding on to a greater past does not help you in your current situation or in life at all.

While that makes sense to most of us, most of us also still struggle to let go.

We hold on to who we were at our prime, to the nicest we’ve been, kindest we’ve been, the strongest, smartest, most productive, most successful, etc. We hold on to the highlights and keep comparing to our best.

But when life is down, and when it’s been down for a while, we sometimes simply have to start over from scratch.

Not because we actually do start from nothing, but because in the attempt to regain what was lost we put so much pressure on ourselves that nothing gets done.

I’ve had a few moments like this in my life. Moments where I wanted to get back to where I was so badly that anything I did that did not at least match that was worthless.

I felt weak, unproductive, unsuccessful, dumb and horribly out of form in comparison; because I was!

Accepting that and beginning anew was hard.

Whether it was going back to Martial Arts after a 3 year break, going back into the dating scene after a long…