Beginning, as commonly described, is a phase anyone should accomplish in order to experience something new. It is the first part, a starting point, a thing that should be done to purchase any qualification. For life, which is of course every one of us is doing right now, it should not be unfamiliar. But yet hundreds of dictionaries that are sold out there still state that word in the B section. Does it mean there are people who still can’t describe that word? Are those people even have a life?
As for me, I personally think that my life is a long complex chain of various beginning. I’ve tried some different things, which might not be that interesting for you to know any further of the details, but all those things required me to undergo a beginning phase. Take, for instance, when I began doing school. Before I even finished that term, much other beginning came along. Beginning of feeling the nerve of facing exams, beginning of competing against people I know and like in order to be the best at every possible subjects, beginning of cheating, and so on. Isn’t it a great example of the word complex that I put on the first line? It doesn’t take an end to enter a new beginning. And yet, they still think it is necessary to put that word in dictionaries.
When I began typing this note, I did muse for a while. I have decided to have an online journal of short essays and write about this subject to begin with for a few days. Last night I even tried to jot some words on my notes just to make this first post a little bit easier. And as weird as it may seem, I couldn’t think of anything when I was facing the blank white screen of TextEdit until I opened the Dictionary application and searched for the word. I couldn’t, even if I was–in fact–on a beginning phase. Could it be the most logical reason why they put the definition of that word in mass-produced dictionaries? Yet, exactly how many people have been writing about ‘beginning’?
Well, it is an undeniable fact that it does take a lot of effort to start something. It does. Because in many times, it is not just a beginning, it could also mean that we’ve got to get out of our comfort zone of not doing; and for sure, it wasn’t called comfort for nothing. Yes, we do enjoy the feeling of indulgence. Some of us may even feel it is one of their best talent–being indulged. I once even said that I was best at doing nothing, and at the same time, I began reaching for the power switch of my PC to start surfing the net.
It is our most endless homework in life. It is unavoidable. And after all, we did choose to begin living this life and one of many ways to enjoy it is to make the most of it. ‘Enjoy your life to the fullest,’ they say. And yes, making as much beginning as possible to fill our own bucket named life is just one of so much option to do so.
