BOXES OF LIFE

Recently, a friend and I were discussing some boxes we still have over our parent’s houses.  Well she took one home over the Christmas holiday.   She told me as she was browsing through it she couldn’t believe some of the stuff she saved.  It got me thinking about how cool this was that as she went through this box.  Also that she is not the same person that she was back then.  Transformation has happened!  I’m wondering if you went through some of the boxes that you have saved what would you find?   Would you find that you are different?  I hope so!

I’m continually going through some of the boxes in my life.  I’m glad that the cover is on the past boxes and I am in a new box now.  The box I’m creating now is my own personal box.  Things that I’m starting to gather are books and journals and ideas.  The receipts are calculated and recorded.   The things that are not there are my pains and failures from the past, because that’s the old story.   My life is so dramatically changing every day.   Mostly my new box is about the new me.  What about you what new box are you creating?

More importantly why I mention this whole box thing.  I would venture to say that most of us, including myself have come a long way in our lives.  I’m in the midst of my biggest adventure ever.  I’m of belief that on January 12, 2013 that I will be so much different than my box of January 12, 2012.  I am excited about what is unwritten and not in the box right now gathering dust.  I’m excited that new things that I will be packing into my box.  I know it will be vibrant and it will have great impact on life and encourage more change for the year to follow. 

Some thoughts I am pondering as I begin to transform and evolve as a person with a new box.  Why am I holding on to the old boxes?  What really needs to be saved from the past?  What will I continue to add to the new box?  What will I look like after the box is closed and tucked away in some attic?  What is one thing that won’t be in your box this year?  What is one thing you will be putting in your new box?