It has been nearly five years since posting here. I didn’t abandon this page but my plan took another path; just as life usually does. Instead of scrapping everything and starting over, I gave my page a new skin and the chance to survive, just as I have and just as you have.

The past few years have been challenging but it brought me to this exact moment which is a great blessing. The recent events in my life have helped me face reality and release tragedy from the past. I have a renewed sense of self and a renewed peaceful spirit.

Facing reality – what it means for me is taking people for who they truly are instead of who/how I hope they would be and to accept them as they are without letting it disrupt our peace. No one is as we hope they will be, they are who they are but the good news is, you can be whom you hope to be. I spent much of my life letting others define me and I adapted to their definition of me. When I finally accepted who people were and that I could hope all I wanted but it wouldn’t change them, I was able to be my true self. 

I’m a person who loves others and I work(ed) very hard at trying to make them happy. I dislike conflict. I dislike mean, manipulative people. I feel the heavy burden of negativity that others harness. I prefer to see the glass half-full, see the rain as a prelude to sunshine, and I will always treat others as I wish to be treated. There was a recent time when I wanted to give that last thought the boot and start treating others as they treat me but I couldn’t make myself do it; it’s not who I am.

Releasing past tragedy, pain, abuse and heartache doesn’t mean it won’t surface again, it will, and when it does, you can acknowledge it for a moment and then send it on its way.

Personal renewal in this disposable age is personal growth. Things don’t have to go away for good in order for your life to be good. Think of a time when you burned yourself or scraped your knee, the scar might still be there but the pain isn’t. The scar doesn’t hold you back from being pain-fee and happy, it’s simply a bookmark in the life of you.

Don’t let others define you by who they say you are. Rise above with each new day and allow yourself to be who you say you are. Make sure those self-defining words are kind. Nurture your inner being. Overcome your personal hurdles and set your sight on being precisely you.

Stand tall ~ The Sky’s the Limit