How to Stop Being Complacent and Start Moving

By

Desiree Future

I wanted to pen this letter to all my subscribers and people who have liked and commented on my blog. Since April, I haven’t created the content that I normally do because of this thing called life.

This young lady was getting up at four in the morning and returning home at six at night four days a week. That alone is extremely exhausting to the body of someone like me who suffers from neuropathy.

While this was going on, my doctor informed me of another situation. I had a suspicion of it, but she confirmed it. To alleviate the problem, my goal was to exercise to get better and strengthen my fifty-two-year-old legs.

Creating an exercise plan, I purchased a stationary bike and a few other items to help me. These could be done after work, and I would take walks in the park on the weekends.

Three days later, another bomb was dropped in my lap. After running errands eight miles from my house, my car wouldn’t start. A nice man tried to jump-start it, but it wouldn’t work.

As the tow truck driver put my car on the flat bed, my heart sank to my stomach. I dreaded this day when my 2004 car with high mileage wouldn’t start. This was the day, which was also the same day I contacted the junkyard to pick it up.

Without a car, I have to take the bus to work and everywhere else. I’m not going to say this is easy because it’s not. As someone with mobility issues, now I find myself having to carry my cane, which was always in my trunk.

A co-worker suggested I downsize my work bag and the items I carry in it. Grabbing my backpack, I did just that, and it certainly made my load lighter.

Throughout all of this, I see a rainbow as clear as day. This series of events has caused me to make major changes I would not have made. The most important one is redoing my budget and actually sticking to it so I can get another car.

Sometimes we become so complacent because the familiar is a safety net. However, being too comfortable can cause more problems in the future than you think.

Had I not had health issues, I would not have started to exercise regularly and purchase a stationary bike. If my car didn’t break down, public transportation would not be my new mode of getting to work. And that budget of mine would still be sitting there with numbers from 2024, even though they have changed in 2025.

God was giving me a push to make me move. Well, it worked because I have made plans to do things a whole lot differently. What makes you move?

Isaiah 43 18-19 KJV ¹⁸ “Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. ¹⁹ Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.