A good friend of mine was talking to me the other day outside her home in the country. Teresa has a huge garden! There are barns, cats, dogs, trucks, tractors, trailers, pick-up trucks, flower beds, you name it and its a country atmosphere. Teresa is a proud Texan! One of the strongest women I have the honor of calling my friend. We were standing outside in the fresh air and surrounded by nature discussing life and moving forward. I told her that I did not want to let anyone down that was reading my blog. I was afraid of being a failure, a hypocrite that could not take her own advice about positive thinking, a big loser in the attempt of helping others. If I fail at helping people on my own accord, then I am a waste of energy. After all, who was I? (That is a whole other Oprah show...) I am genuine about helping others. However, sometimes I have my doubts on where I am supposed to be in my life...
We all have our own trunk of issues. We all have stuff. Those are the moments in our library that we would rather just delete. That is not so easy to do. However, how you handle it does! Teresa said;"she may be bent at times but, never broken." Then it hit me! "We are not broken as long as we are willing to keep moving forward in our lives and bend during the storms"...I love this analogy!
So remind yourself that you are not broken and are just bent a little sometimes. OK, we are bent more than we want to be on occasion. We can get down-right crooked into that Yoga position that makes us scream "UNCLE!" But, it is OK to be upside down with your inner self sometimes. It sounds corny to some. The inner self and what it means but, you don't know it until you have tried it. There is true meaning in everything you look at. Try not to judge the idea and take look at what is inside of you. Are you bent a little? We won't let you break. What can you do a little house cleaning on? After all, it is spring! A time for spring cleaning isn't it?
Use this time in your life to reflect, direct, detect, and eject yourself from those good and bad moments in your personal library. And remember that we are all the same. Don't be afraid to bend a little. Just keep working on focusing positive motivation and look within yourself. We are all trying to heal ourselves in some way. We want to think better, live better, act better, do everything better! And why not? We want to be the best vessel and instrument that the world can play~. The more people are reaching out to each other, the more they are finding that there is a whole underground of thinking just like themselves. "We are all family."
As family member in life, I want to share this. I feel so deeply compelled to let you how much you are appreciated by someone out there. People become surprised that you can respect what they are doing, or what they are going through when you do not even know them. The world seemed a bit self-absorbed for a while. Things are different in our culture as a world. People do care about you. It may have not been until we had lost something that we became humbled. It is OK to be down with skidded knees. That is when we need each other the most. Many strangers help others without recognition. There are people and tools to help you get there. We can not all help in the same areas of need, but we sure can try to guide you where you need to go. Sometimes just being there for someone is a great sense of comfort...
Speaking of comfort--someone is leaving their their coffee cups on the arm of the couch. Please remove all trash when exiting the room and turn out the lights. Gotta go green ya know! Thanks again for stopping by and get out and enjoy your weekend! Just a reminder: I do not post on the weekends. That time I preserve for my family and friends. I make sure that I try to stay focused and grounded with real life and real people. The Internet is an amazing tool and I support its intrinsic part to life! I am trying to maintain balance with family, life, and work. We all do this and know it is not so easy to adapt to. It is do-able! It may not always be perfect but, it is do-able! So I am trying to walk the walk, and adapt to a plan that helps me with balance. I hope it comes soon because I used to get car sick. I wonder if it could carry over...oh goodness, I hope not...
Now go have some moments! Any moment. There are so many and they all have beauty within each one. Even the quiet ones have a way of giving us a sense of "calm." So whatever your moments are, embrace them and live in them...
" Work That Art In Motion"
