Shining My Life in a New Light

I feel that each day and each week I'm learning something new about myself, about my character, about others and about life. I've come to realize that life is about a balance of opposites. You need to listen to your feelings, but also keep pushing forward and think positively. You have to strongly and stably ground yourself in your ideals and values, but also have an open mind. Love and respect others they way you would want to be love and respect, regardless of how they treat you, but remember that you are the most important person in your life. The list goes on! I've discovered, however, that you won't succeed in life if you take things too seriously. I've learned to criticize myself constructively and move forward without self-sabotaging about my mistakes. This takes positive and mature thinking. This also requires one to love, accept, and trust one-self. One has to feel like a complete entity when alone, but also be able to develop loving, trusting and valued relationships with others. I'll compare it to an earthquake and a threshole. You've always heard that the threshold is the safest place to be under during an earthquake because it's strong and stable. That's where you want to be in life. Under the threshold. Not all the way inside, or all the way outside; similarly, not all the way selfish, and not all the way selfless. There has to be a balance of both because the bottom line is YOU MATTER. People matter. Think positively. Keep moving forward. Love yourself unconditionally. And with that, I'll leave you with these two last presents. "Faith is to believe what you do not see. The reward of this faith is to see what you believe." - Saint Augustine. Xoxo, SG