There are periods in our life where we go through a reset. It’s like when a game doesn’t work on the old Nintendo. We push the reset button to get it to work. In the same way, we hit the reset button philosophical, psychologically–start over and play again.
The reset is like a Copernican revolution of the things we had believed, or the things we had assumed to be true. Maybe we didn’t have it all right.
It can occur after a sudden realization at a random moment, or after going through an unexpected trial. It’s as if God stirred us from our slumber, woke us up, made us realize something that was amiss–something that we had been oblivious to.
When this happens, we start to reassess everything we had believed in. We investigate all the premises, the flaws, the shortcomings, and then start to dismantle the infrastructure. After countless hours of online research, internal reflection, and reading copious amounts of literature and books, we come to an epiphany that we had things wrong–that we didn’t have everything figured out.
There’s always tweaking we have to do with our vision, our life, our philosophical or religious perspective. Just like with writing a book, we have to edit each page, perfect it, get it right. That’s why there’s that saying it’s not about the destination, but the journey.
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