Sometimes we get so caught up in the small and big details of everyday life that we forget the real things. The real people. The real moments. The ones who shaped who we are, who shaped our lives, who gave us love and hope. Little by little, we start ignoring them, brushing past them, as if they were always guaranteed to be there.
We become so tightly woven into daily routines that those routines grow bigger than us. Bigger than our ability to move. We enter a game with no ending. A game that pulls us in deeper the longer we stay.
Eventually, we reach a point where we realize this game is no longer worth playing. But flipping the table is not easy. It is not a simple decision or a single moment of rebellion.
Flipping the table takes courage. It takes strength. It takes deep insight. And above all, it takes a strong will that binds all of these together. You have to be fully resolved.
Because on the surface, flipping the table may look like nothing more than turning something upside down. But in reality, it is a process. A process that can take months, sometimes years.
And throughout that time, you have to stay strong. Very strong. Strong enough not to break.
In that period, you are not just disrupting a table. You are changing the game itself. You are declaring your rejection of the game as it exists. You are saying, even if only to yourself: "I no longer want this game."
And only then does the real work begin. Rearranging the chess pieces of your life. Because the old setup, that old way of living, simply does not work anymore.
You have to set the board again. More consciously. More honestly. More deliberately.
That is the only way life can become better than what it is now.