final journey

Everyone believes that we must become something new whenever we embark on a new journey.  They think that if we don’t changed as a person then the journey was all for nothing, or that it was a waste.  But maybe we’re looking at journeys the wrong way.  Maybe its not what we become but what we lose along the way.  We lose the fake person that we were.  Or we lose some of our insecurities.  And maybe we think that losing something is always bad and that gaining something is always good.  But not everything should be coined with the phrase of “always”.  Sometimes we should just let things happen.  Whatever they are.  However they could possibly changed us.  And in the end we can be the person we were always meant to me.  Change can be good.  It can also be bad. It’s really all that we will it to be.  And the only thing that is always true is the fact that we should always be true to ourself and be proud of whoever that may be.

Getting Better

We all strive to be the best version of ourselves, no matter what it may actually be.  Some people reach for the stars knowing that one day they will make it and others struggle to even see the stars as a possibility.  By surrounding yourself with people you lift you up you start to believe in yourself and your dreams.  You know that eventually you will get to where you want to be and one day you will land among the stars.  Some people simply want to be happy and the people around them are preventing them of feeling such happiness.  If they go out and find better people they will start to get better and slowly but surely become happier, whether it takes a week or a few months.  The people we surround ourselves with have the ability to either lift us up or tear us down and its up to us to choose the right people to surround ourselves with.  No one deserves to be unhappy or to feel alone and we simply have to seek out people who believe in us and then we will start to believe in ourselves and be able to reach the stars.

Endings

As the semester is drawing to an end everyone is focusing on the fact that it is ending rather than the fact that something new is beginning.  With the end of anything comes the beginning of something else.  People cry when things end, like graduations or weddings.  Instead they should be rejoicing that they are given the chance of a new beginning.  Starting over is scary, no one knows what the expect from this new thing.  But its also exciting because we are given a new chance to be whatever we want or to just start over if we need.  Not everyone needs a fresh start.  Some people are perfectly content with who they are, but for every person like that there is someone who wants to change for whatever reason and new beginnings are perfect for that.  When one part of their life is ending they can say goodbye to whatever part of them self that they didn’t like and introduce a new part of them self that they think they will like.  And sometimes the new beginnings are better than any ending we could ever imagine.

Just believe

Belief in yourself is one of the best things you can have in yourself.  If you think you are great than you will work harder to be great.  If you are a small cat but believe you are a large lion than you will act as such.  Its like big dogs who think that they are little dogs.  They truly believe that they are that small and act as such.  So if you think you are greater than you are than you will convince others that you are too.

Pinterest

I was scrolling through Pinterest late one night, as I often do before bed and I came across this post.  Not only did the photo look appealing but the quote resonated with me as well.  Glow sticks can only work if they are broken, otherwise they are just a useless piece of plastic and oddly translucent chemicals.  They are not unlike people actually.  People are great and we try our best to be the best.  But often it is the people who have truly been broken that shine the brightest.  They go through something traumatic and come out on top-in some cases even stronger than before.  Now not all successful people have gone through this.  Some people are the outliers-the glow stick that came out of the package somehow already glowing without being broken-but the chance of this happening is rare.  And we shouldn’t try to be the person to the exception all the time, but we also shouldn’t try to conform if we aren’t like everyone else.  So if you are broken just know that you were given the chance to shine even greater than you thought possible.  And if you came out glowing already know that this is great too.  Either way you are exactly where you should be in life and that deserves recognition in itself.

Don’t sweat

Not one person can honestly say that they don’t pay mind to the little things in life.  We end up letting them consume us and take over out thoughts, usually for no good reason other than the fact that we got caught up in all of it.  Life happens.  We make mistakes.  But ultimately we learn from all of it, both big and small.  So we shouldn’t spend hours obsessing over the trivial stuff in life.  It may seem big in the moment but we can overcome anything we set our mind to and the first thing we can do that for is passing over the small stuff and realizing that it is small for a reason and doesn’t deserve a big place in our life.

Chorus

I’m a bit of an overachiever and I always believed that I had to do everything perfectly to societies standards rather than my own standards.  My chorus teacher in middle school told me that practice makes better not perfect and that really stuck with me.  Here I was working my butt off for the belief that one day I would be perfect, not realizing that as long as I was happy with myself then I basically was perfect.  As long as I moved forward from where I started I should be content because I had gotten somewhere and that was better than most people could say.  We all have this dream to be perfect and achieve perfection so to realize that perfection is just a myth is very eye opening and also helpful because it makes us take a step back from this notion of perfection and focus more on the idea of progress and simply moving forward from where we began, even if its just one step forward.

Blair Waldorf

When I was younger I completely bought into the destiny ideas that were portrayed in movies and books.  Women never acted on what they wanted but instead waited for the universe to act and somehow exactly what they wanted to happen ended up coming true anyway.  But for me- in the real world-that never seemed to work out but I kept on believing that it was better to sit around and wait for something to happen rather than possibly make a fool out of myself for trying.  Then I saw this part in gossip girl and realized where I had gone wrong.  Destiny is around and certain things come out of it, but if you really want something you’ll go out and make it happen and chances are you’ll be a lot happier by creating your own happiness than waiting around for someone else to make it for you.

Fortune Cookie

I opened my fortune cookie to this and realized how perfect it would be for a blog post.  Not only was it inspiring but it really was true to my life and so many others.  Quite often we go through life making choices and then explaining why we made them after the fact, when that is basically the opposite of how we should be living.   We only have one life and we should be doing all we can to make it exciting and interesting rather than simply an explanation of why we are living the way we are living.  We all want to have interesting lives that we can tell people about and be proud of instead of lives that we feel ashamed of and feel the need to explain constantly.  Newton coined this idea perfectly and I’m going to start putting it into action!