When we see that something is a problem or can be bad for you or observe poor outcomes for certain behaviors, you may share that with your friends and family. You may encourage, admonish or maybe even nag them to encourage them to make good choices.
When you have experienced a crisis or trauma, you don’t even just have strong feelings about helping people avoid that. You become passionate. Intensely passionate.
You want to explain to others what is happening when they get in to that crisis situation. You want them to recognize they are in danger, before it becomes worse. You want to wave the red flags, sound the sirens and bring down the warning gates in order to get them to change direction before they experience the kind of pain and sorrow you have/are walking through.
And sometimes you get downright obnoxious about it. Sometimes you are figuratively jumping up and down, shouting “look at what is going on” or “you deserve better than this”. Or even “you are valuable, you are enough – not perfect – but enough.”
If I saw you standing on a train track and a train was coming, I would call out to you. No response. I would yell at you. No response. I would be screaming, waving, and doing everything I could to get you to move off those tracks.
So if this doesn’t apply to you, if you’re not on the tracks: first, take a look at your life and make sure you didn’t wander onto the tracks and haven’t yet noticed it.
Second, if you start to recognize you may be on the tracks, please start paying attention and move if you need to.
And third, if you are on the tracks – don’t wait – make a change now. Your life reflects the choices you make now.
As long as there is breath, there is hope.
You can change today.
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