New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.

Lao Tzu

 

Everyone has heard the saying ‘when one door closes, another door opens’. Change can be hard though. What if you are used to that one door being open. You know the positioning of the handle and can reach and open it automatically. Perhaps the key for the new door is stiff and it takes longer and more effort to even prise it open. New doors can be a good thing though. Maybe what is behind is different.

Painful endings are still a challenge we will undoubtedly all come up against at one time or another. And what lies further ahead may be better, worse, harder, smoother, different, the same, challenging, rewarding…any number of things.

New beginnings can be wonderful though. A chance to change. A chance to BE different. An opportunity to explore new things or new ways of being. We evolve. We are designed to.

If something hurts and is painful none of this takes that away or diminishes the importance of the pain we feel. Maybe once the pain is worked though something new awaits though. Wouldn’t that be wonderful.

 

 

 

 

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