Happy new something, again.

"400k monthly can’t give you a soft life sha. Especially not in Lagos or Abuja"

Imagine waking up the next morning after a long-ass waiting time at the airport, a successful trip and an Ovalay class to someone thinking like this on the TL.

Tragic!

The above was my default self giving an excuse for missing yesterday's Jour—nnal and trying to distract you from it. Anyways, I'm sorry for yesterday. I really am.

Praise, every new week is, well, new—but asides that, it comes with hope, beauty, potential, joy, indifference, tiredness, anxiety, shame, panic, happiness, sadness, boredom, excitement, etc.

Yet, one thing is central. No matter how broring the days become because we work from home, anything new offers a fresh start at preservation.

Remember when you were a kid, and they got you that new toy? Whenever you got it, you always had two things in mind—playing with it and keeping it new for as long as possible.

Unfortunately, Praise, despite our apathy to Mondays, it is what we walk into each week with—the chase of preserving the high that starting afresh gives us.

And it is good!

Asides preservation, Monday also offers recompense/repentance for the possible lazy weekend you had (assuming the world was perfect enough for you to have a lazy weekend).

But we do this every week, 52 times a year—right from the first time we went to Primary School. Remember? How you look forward to a neat, ironed uniform on Monday? Or that new bag at the beginning of each session? Or how you envied someone else for having something new?

The universe placed a lesson in that cycle, that we've somehow managed to miss over and over again.

Nothing new remains new.

When you learn something new, it gives you a high. When you do something different the first time, you're unusually excited. When you achieve that milestone, get that praise, receive that recommendation, it's not weed—you're just stoned on Dopamine.

Sadly, we always want it to continue—just like when we played with our toys. I mean, who nor like good thing?

New is great! But growth comes from decay, development and/or iteration. These three mean that you've got to consciously take what is new, relish it and let it die or become old for another to be birthed.

Leaves fall for new ones to grow. Seeds die for trees to build. Caterpillars turn into butterflies, tadpoles become frogs. Heck! Even Christ had to die, and then resurrected for eternal life.

Enjoy your new, and let it go old. That's the only way you can achieve another new. It's a universe cycle.

Don't fight it—you actually can't.

Happy New Week.

Ciao.

PS: Tell me if it's worth it? I promised it was gonna. You can tweet it on the TL and tag me. Yes—I want to get high on Dopamine. Don't judge me.

PPS: My pinned tweet has the link to join in case you've got friends who want to.

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