HAVE AN AIM TO CHANGE RATHER THAN STAYING

BROKEN
Story time! For awhile, my family had a distorted mirror in our
bathroom. If I’m not mistaken, we probably bought it because the
design around it was unique. Unfortunately, we were distracted
from the mirror itself. It was only when we starting using it that
we realised it was completely distorted. In the beginning, our eyes
would hurt a little whenever we tried to used the mirror. After a
while, we found ways to work around the mirror: either going
super up-close to look at our reflection or squint our eyes a certain
way to use a part of the mirror that wasn’t wonky. Despite our
knowledge of its distortion (to be fair, we rarely used it), we
allowed the mirror to be there for about a year before finally taking
it down.
The point of this story is this: most of us find it easier to stay
broken rather than driving towards change. In really
tackling our mental health, many have shared that there is a
struggle to take the effort to make changes — for change requires
greater effort in comparison to festering in the problem. It was
easier to just adapt around the mirror because we already bought
it, rather than needing to buy another mirror and admitting we
screwed up with our purchase.
Sometimes what doesn’t kill you gives you a lot of unhealthy
coping mechanisms and a really dark sense of humour. However,
you are only stuck in that version of you if you allow yourself to
be. Yes, you are used to act or be a certain way because these have
helped you in the past. But the reason why you find yourself being
unable to move forward is because you keep applying the same old
formula to a new level in your life. Be unafraid to change this
formula from your past to get you a different result in the future.