A new year,… An opportunity to be a blessing to others, to be there for a friend, to tell my family I love them unconditionally, and to share the gifts God gave me with others. This is a happy new year!
📸 myself
A new year,… An opportunity to be a blessing to others, to be there for a friend, to tell my family I love them unconditionally, and to share the gifts God gave me with others. This is a happy new year!
📸 myself
All these years the SIGNs have been all around me,…I mean everywhere! The harder I tried to fit into the assembly line mold, that I thought was meant for all of us, the more I didn’t fit.
The pets have always known!!
Well, 30 plus years of trying to fit my square peg into the circle hole, and today I’m happy to say that I am finally realizing I just don’t fit there. Thankfully, after a good night’s sleep, and a peaceful morning, I’m seeing it more clearly and working on appreciating my quirks. (there’s a lot of them)!
The funniest part of all this is that it’s hasn’t been hiding from anyone all this time. I’ve never had any kind of a poker face, heck, my skin even changes color with my moods,…..what are you going to do?
Embrace it!! That’s what I’m sticking with today. And when I need to hear this again, now I’ll have this note to look back on.
Live, Laugh, Love with everything you’ve got, while you still can! 💜✨ Thank you so much for stopping by. I truly appreciate and value you all.
As we’re getting ready to transition into a new year, 2021, and we’re looking back on what some of us feel was a really bad year,….
My mind is wired a lot differently than most, and I’m in therapy now for it. Actually working on trying to retrain my brain, to learn how a health adult’s mind can be adaptable, flexible, reasonable, and adjust as needed, in a health way. I’ve learned that PTSD and history of living through traumatic events/abuse can leave the person in survival mode permanently.
During a special holiday service, with a dear friend and spiritual mentor leading it, she brought up a quote that just hit me in the stomach so hard. I haven’t been able to forget it, and it’s been a couple of weeks already.
“You Cannot Heal What you do not Feel.” Dr. Edith Eger
She was telling the story of a Dr. Edith Eger, a sixteen year old Hungarian Olympic gymnast cut from the team for being Jewish (NewsColony, 8/16/2020); and also a ballerina that was taken from her home in 1944. She lost her parents on the first day to the gas chamber. She was forced to dance for the feared and hateful Angel of Death, SS officer Josef Mengele.…..forced to walk in a death march, and was then saved from Auschwitz. (Source, NewsColony, 8/16/2020)
So going back to the way my mind processes information, and how it compares a current situation to what it could be, or was, or might have been,…..Hearing that single quote two weeks ago has profoundly affected how I’m feeling about this year of 2020 coming to an end,…even through all the noise around us right now.
I heard that quote from Dr. Eger for a reason, and now I’m being pulled to share it for a reason,….big picture, I’m still here for a reason. Ok, I won’t go down that road right now.
After reading just a tiny bit of Dr. Eger’s story, it is now tops on my list to get her memoir, “The Choice.” Seeing life through the eyes of another can have such a profound and groundbreaking way of settling and adjusting our perspectives. I have heard that a lot of times, the most compassionate and loving people have actually been through some unimaginable pains in their lives. They know what it feels like, so they try to show just the opposite to those around them.
As we come into our new day, our new year,….Live, Laugh, Love with everything you’ve got, while you still can! 💜✨ Thank you so much for being here. I truly appreciate and value you all.
Happy New Year! ✨🥳
What perspective are you feeling today, or how was it yesterday,….grateful, blessed, tired, bored, meaningless?
It’s Amazing how different a day can make things seem! One good night’s sleep, a relaxing wake up routine vs a horrible night’s sleep, rushing and tripping out of bed to the never-ending shrieking of the alarm! It’s shocking how different your perspective can be depending on choices, given circumstances,….your chosen thoughts and views.
I’ve held on to the notions that life’s experiences have been amazing teachers. What I didn’t account for are the actual amount of hills and valleys my mind, body, and soul can take without completely needing to reexamine my perspectives overall, before actually collapsing from overuse.
Yes, I still believe life experiences teach us invaluable lessons, but thankfully, age is also showing me that I can learn the same lessons from others, without stumbling to stand up again and again,….and again after needing to experience it myself.
“Remember, young man, experience is not the best teacher. Other people’s experience is the best teacher. By reading about the lives of great people, you can unlock the secrets to what made them great.” Jones, The Noticer, by Andy Andrews. (Examples of biographies first given in this novel, Winston Churchill, Will Rogers, George Washington Carver).
Synonyms of perspective• angle,• eye view,• outlook,• shoes,• slant,• standpoint,• vantage point,• viewpoint.
Perspective, noun – a particular attitude toward or way of regarding something; a point of view.
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Inspirational Goal for today – use more positive resources around me, to try the best I can to keep a positive, blessed, and grateful perspective all day today. And for tomorrow, get up and repeat,….and possibly try to have this effect on someone around me.
Live, Laugh, Love with everything you have, while you still can! Thank you so much for stopping by! I appreciate and value you all. 💜✨