Did you watch the Groundhog Day movie? It’s a great movie from back 1983 and I was just thinking about it last week. After I watched that movie, I would mention it from time to time, whenever I´d notice my day was boring or that I was doing something boring that looked like would never end. It has been a long time since I mentioned it last time. And I just got myself thinking about it again. Last week.

The interesting part, though, is that I thought of it differently. See, in the movie, the main character feels trapped in the same day. And I guess I caught myself feeling the same way. But in the past, I would just play around mentioning the movie “oh, this looks like the Groundhog Day, right?” and would move on.

But this time, I remembered the movie with a question. I did remember it because sometimes I feel trapped in time. Don’t get me wrong, this new routine pleased me a great deal from the beginning, but also made me feel with so many limitations, and sometimes I just get tired of it.
So, I remembered the movie, and before I noticed myself just laughing at it, this time I was going forward. I wanted to remember what he, the main character, did to just go out of it. And I realized something that made my day.

In case you didn’t see the movie, I don’t want to spoil it, but I realized that after the moment of desperation when he became aware of what was happening, he just switched the way of dealing with it and started to actually learn and enjoy the moment. Even if he knew exactly what was going to happen. And the most amazing part was this: he knew what was going to happen, but he found a way to create something new even so. And that completely changed the whole experience and perspective.
And when I understood this, it just amplified amazingly the way I was looking and experiencing everything right now. Try not to laugh, but I felt like a horse that suddenly lost his blinders and could finally see everything else around.

It was almost overwhelming because for a moment there were so many possibilities that I thought I would lose myself. But, no. And it was very liberating to be able to see all the possibilities, that of course, was there all the time, but somehow I trapped myself in the idea that things would be the same over and over again. Well, to be honest, I learned that things might be the same over and over again, but I don’t have to be the same over and over again. I learned that I can bring something new in me every day, or at least any time I feel like it. I can be a new me whenever I want. No different, just amplified. And probably this will be enough to bring new eyes and experience things in a different way, whenever I want. Searching for possibilities, creating time, and opportunity to live them. Sounds much better than feeling trapped, right?