Fresh Start.

I think one of the best things in life that a person can be given is a fresh start. This thought actually came to me as I was sitting in my first class of spring semester yesterday morning. It's the beginning of a new semester, which means... a fresh start.

Whether it's a fresh start in a friendship, relationship, job, or in my case, in school. It's always great! It gives you a chance to put the past mistakes and misfortunes behind you. It's like pressing the refresh button on life.

Breathe in... breathe out. A fresh start is like one big sigh of relief, knowing that you now have the chance to turn things around and get back in the game. 

Sometimes, I feel as though fresh starts can be taken for granted. We're always offered a fresh start in any aspect of our lives. However, sometimes we don't take it in the "right" way or we simply choose to rest in our old ways.

I think resting in your old ways is so easy to do because that's where you've become comfortable. A person's comfort zone is hard to break out of. I still find myself trying to break out of mine.

Realizing that a fresh start is a new opportunity to do things differently and to take different risks is important. It's like things don't have to go the same way, situations can change, and you can ultimately decide whether or not that's going to happen!

Brilliant, right?

I guess since I have a totally new outlook on the idea of a fresh start, I'm so willing to embrace it and see it for what it can come to be. 

This year and this semester of school, I've made a promise to myself to be mindful that I'm in a new season and that I've been given a new, fresh start.

It's all taken one step at a time though.

I hope I have in some way or another given you a better feeling about your fresh start. Whatever it may be. Wherever it may be.