If only this THING is over...

 If only this thing is over .... 

You used to live here. No, not “here”, but in your location at the time. That time when you could only think in terms of “if only I make it out of here”…. Your “here” being Nigeria, Rwanda, Haiti or similar place.

Remember Haiti? By now, you most probably only remember her people, her beauty, her “there’s no other place like that”, the “only in Haiti!”
Remember the Embargo? Or the burning barricades, the violence, the whatevers.
You probably do, because you used to tell everyone that THAT was the cause for your unhealthy living.
“If only this thing is over”, “if only I’m out of here” ….

Well, we survived the embargo, and you moved on to other places: the new assignment, the new ministry, the new “home”, “back home”, “anywhere else than Haiti”, or whatever name you chose for your Neverland.

Let’s fast forward. Oops, something seems off. What happened?
Your waistline now larger than your new country’s GNP, the shelter-in-place apparently substituted by shelter-in-food-places, the rice & beans substituted by edible nonsense of all sorts.

Remember Haiti?
Remember the Embargo?
When your family and church “back home” would be so worried about “those living conditions” and you became masters in soothing those worries by explaining how you could “degajé” like a local: make do with what you have, make it work even if it doesn’t.

You can come back. No, not physically return to Haiti, but come back to your old size and stamina.
And your first step is to stop the “if only”’s in your life.
There is no “if only”, there is only “now” and “here”.

If you don’t need where to even start, let me assist you. Drop me a message at healthylifestylehaiti@cheerful.com and I’ll gladly talk with you about ways to help you get back to a healthier you.