“We all eat bread and we know that bread has an expiration date.  Just because it has an expiration date it doesn’t mean we can’t try and eat it.  It might have mold on it, it might make you sick, it might not be healthy for you. The same can be said for people.  When you try to deal with people and situations where you know the time has expired, you’re going to get the worst of what is left.  Stop dealing with expired situations.  Know when that bite isn’t worth it,” via Malibuhannah.  In the vein of perspective, growth, moving on, this is the most timely and appropriate metaphor I could have come across.  I’ve written about not sitting at a table where we are made to feel unwelcome.  When they are no longer serving what is nourishing, it is time to leave.  We will keep ourselves unhealthy and unsatisfied as long as we are comfortable.  Even if we start to mold ourselves, even if we feel sick ourselves, we operate where we know, so we will continue the behavior out of comfort and habit. 

When we gain enough perspective and remember who we are and what we are capable of, we learn how to move forward.  We learn that eating that expired bread and partaking in those unhealthy situations is unhealthy for us.  There is no separating us from the experiences we have.  That knowledge helps us make better decisions and we understand that we can no longer eat the dregs, the crumbs, the mold of what is left.  We are worth the meals we prepare, we are worth inviting to the table, we are worth building the entire table.  There is no need to keep ourselves down for fear of missing out on something we can provide ourselves.  We learn to empower ourselves and adopt a new perspective and we learn to walk away from what no longer serves and what is no longer healthy for us.  We learn to invite in the experiences we want and that are aligned with who we are.

If we know not to eat moldy foods, then we can learn the same for our relationships whether it is with people who have known us our whole lives or other, we can learn the same for the jobs we take and the work we do even if we fear changing how we operated with money before, and we can learn the same for what we ingest through any type of media.  We can learn to break these habits any time and in any situation because the same message applies: if it isn’t healthy for us, we no longer partake.  We don’t need to focus on doing things that make us sick for the sake of another person.  We learn how to effectively stand up for ourselves and how to nourish who we really are.  Never feel guilty for taking the perspective of keeping healthy.  Learn to provide satisfaction for ourselves over comfort and life changes dramatically.  Expired anything is no longer an option.