Watching The Rot Set In

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I see it in myself, I see it in others. I've experienced it in my relationships, and I see it everyday around me. People getting stuck in patterns, settling for the familiar, and ignoring the fact that what used to work isn't working anymore but unable to adapt due to perceived loyalties and entrenched commitments to times long passed.

So we go through the motions and create a communal lie that things are exactly as they once were. We know that this is a lie, but we tell ourselves another lie, that gets layered underneath in order to support the original untruth. "Things can once again be as they were".

But they can't and they won't. Life moves forward, and the puzzle gets increasingly complex as we go, the answer as elusive as it always was.

The rot is like a deadly beetle gnawing gleefully away at a beautiful forest, its food is routine and habit.

The best way to fight the rot is to have new experiences.They need not be giant, they need not be profound. Its not complicated, just go out there and do something you haven't done before.

At least switch donut shops for a day, go to a different MacDonalds, or join an expidition to Everest. The relativity does not override the context. We are all capable of new experiences, no matter our station.

My little goal for tomorrow is to find some Cambodian food in this town. Its modest, achievable, but most importantly it will be a new experience.

Perhaps you may not live in Toronto and your opportunities for a new experience may be different, but the opportunities that surround are the same in number, no matter where or who we are.

Infinite.

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