Choosing positivity1/6/2018 Happy Saturday! I hope you all had a fabulous week, and make this upcoming one a beautiful one. If you haven’t yet, please sign up for my Email list! (Sign up at the bottom of this post) If you do, you'll get an email with a link directly to my blog whenever I post (which is around 10am every Saturday). It takes like five seconds to sign up for and i really appreciate it if you choose to be a part of this. The support is fabulous and I’m very grateful! Also I LOVE getting comments from you all! Let me know what your opinions are of any blog suggestions you have and I’ll be happy to address it! Email me (link on my contact page and at the bottom of my post) or leave a comment! I’m not the kind of person who considered herself only “skin deep”. I like digging into peoples souls, having emotional talks, and sharing wisdom and advice with others when I can. Recently, a friend of mine who is quite a bit younger than me was conversing with me and she mentioned how she hopes to have the same amount of positivity I have when she’s at my stage of life. I couldn’t help but think to myself, “There’s a change. I used to be so negative internally and it showed on the outside as well.” It was sorta refreshing to be called positive because I thought that’s surely all of the negative I’ve things I have felt through the last years of my life, would have permanently tainted me to be a downer. What I actually realized is it gave me a sense of hope. It MADE me positive, as if the negativity were some kind of purifyer. Things had to get dark for me to truly appreciate the light. (Thats a blog planned for another day) After I quickly thought the things I mentioned above, I replied to her with this: “You’ll most likely lose it somewhere along the way, but it’ll come back. I promise. who knows, maybe it won’t. After all, You control you. Always remember that. You have control. So if it doesn’t come back, choose it. Life isn’t as serious and everyone makes it out to be. Don’t stress too much, because when you’re 38 and living in a beautiful house with your wonderful babies and the person you love, the one (or several) bad grades you may have made, won’t matter. Im not saying don’t try. Always try. Try your hardest and be the best you can be, but that failed test? Won’t matter. Your class rank? Won’t matter. That boy who broke your heart or the friend that stabbed you in the back, Wont. Matter. You live and you learn, but only if you choose to take the situations in which your placed in to grow from, instead of just letting them be a sad story on your resume. However, what does matter the most is the memories you make. That’s why I hope you participate in your life. Be present. THAT is something no one can take away from you. You won’t remember what your report cards said or every little thing your teachers taught you, but you WILL remember the memories you made and the things you did. And that’s all that matters in the long run anyhow.” I left the beginning of my advice above a bit vague for the purpose of the girl I was talking with, (and anyone else) to able to fill in the blank with whatever their “It” may be. Maybe you lost yourself, or all hope. Maybe you lost your positivity, or heck, even your mind. That’s okay. It’s okay. And it’s going to be okay. In the end, you have control and you can choose how to handle your situation. For me, it always comes down to two things: Let it be (per the famous Beatles lyrics) or choose. Choose to fix it. Choose to improve it. Choose to get it back. Choose to love. Life is filled with choices and positivity is one of them, my friends. Now, Positivity isn’t a cure all. It won’t get rid of all the bad in your life or the world, but it can definitely help make the load you carry feel a little less heavy, and the coolest thing about it is that it can help take some of the weight off other peoples shoulders as well. You inspire people, just as people had inspired you. What will you choose next time around? With love,
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