Control
When you are a control freak and assume all that happens around you is yours to mold and sculpt into what you want, what happens when life doesn’t do what you want? No matter how influential you are or think you are life throws curve balls and you have no chance of getting things to go the way you want it. Not even money and influence can sometimes allow you to control everything.
Tests
I have gone through so many tests throughout my life and have not walked away unscathed but thankfully alive and kicking.
Self Love
…I would travel by myself all the time. So many persons that I know thought I was crazy. Who travels by themselves and is not lonely. As long as I had something to read and my Walkman I was fine. I was never alone nor was I lonely. I had myself for company….
Mental Health
…as I’ve always said you have to take care of your mental health and guard it jealously. Don’t let anyone try to pierce the bubble that you put around yourself. They will gaslight you and make you doubt yourself and sometimes even your own sanity………It’s not a nice feeling and that’s when you need people you can trust as they make that difference. They form that cocoon around you and make sure you are comfortable in your own skin.
Worrying
I’m learning how to continue to plan for everything but separate it from worrying about what might happen. It takes a while to get to the stage where we just let things go and just ride with the flow.
Privilege
It’s a major thing because you didn’t have to wake up as anything could have happened. Life is important and precious, we should know and understand that and accept it. That’s why I will always say life is for living. Living at your best makes you look around and see that there is so much more to life than work.
Best days
I had to make myself happy, no one else can. If you push your happiness onto someone else to do for you then you will be surely disappointed. You have to take it a day at a time. That is why your days have to count. How do we make those days count?
Continue
When we decide the changes we will make in our lives and how we will make them it should be noted that we do this for ourselves and no one else. We should make changes for what we want done in our lives and should not be dependent on what others think should be happening.
Start
When we allow others to determine what’s right, best and important for us then we lose all self respect and control. You’re not being selfish thinking that what you want is the most important thing for you. You are being kind to yourself.
The end and the beginning
It’s strange but as I was getting used to 2023 here come 2024 like a bullet train. Sigh, what to do? I will just embrace it and hold on for dear life.