Shadows

There are times I see my shadow more often than myself. I see all the bad things I've done and mistakes I've made and no way to amend them. I live in the dark and it feels comforting, but isn't.

It's often hard for me to look beyond my shadow. Especially when it's well defined.

Although I find quite often that if we can ONLY see our shadow... That we are turned away from the light.

Sometimes it is as looking around and seeing all the people in your life shining light on you.

"When you can't see the light... Turn around."

Conundrum

Most of us have felt that we were put on this earth for a reason. Even if a lot of us have yet to figure out that reason, we still feel it.

I often run into the conundrum that I know my purpose in life, but not sure how to carry it. Or am I afraid I won't live up to my own expectations.

Will we ever know unless we try?

We have a these talents for a reason. Fulfill them.

"Know your weaknesses and use your strengths"

Humpty Dumpty

There are a lot of times I feel I could shatter into a million pieces. Never to be put together again. I think we all feel that way sometimes and most of the times that feeling will pass sooner than we can see.

The trick is not to worry about how many parts you break into, but that you start mending them, one by one, till the job is done.

Or, remember that you don't have to fall off the wall to begin with ;-)

"Humpy Dumpty was a quitter"

Scars

We all have scars. Some are superficial and physical, some dig deeper. By nature, we seem to be ashamed of them. We hide them, cover them up and hope no one catches a glimpse.

To us it's an ugly reminder of an injury. A reminder of the pain we felt from the past. To us those scars are as real as the incident that caused them.

The truth is no one in the outside world sees those scars any greater than we see them ourselves.

We let them be bad images of pain from our past, instead of being reminders that we endured and survived to make a better future.

"Scars are not signs of our pain, but signs of our survival."

The little things in Life.

I tend to let little things affect my day.  

Most of the time it's a domino effect for the worse.  Once we wake on the wrong side of the bed, it's downhill for the continuing.  You wake up late, the kids aren't ready, you have no gas  in the tank and the line at starbucks is out the door.  This is gonna be a fun day.

Less often we let the little good things into our life.  The simple things, like watching the sunrise, listening to a child laugh or feeling the love of another person. 

Even if resources are scarce, there are many other that appear when you start looking for them.

"Happiness exists not in the big picture, but the small moments"

Make problems go away.

There are moments I want to quit.  Those are the moments I know I need to try harder. 

Of course you're tired.

Of course you need rest.

Of course you need to run faster.

You can rest when you get to the top of the mountain, until then...  Keep on trucking!

The amazing part is that after you stop concentrating how hard it is, it gets easy!  Before you now it the hard part is over.  Most of that is because you learn that all that hard work you thought was gonna be overwhelming...  Wasn't all that bad after all.

"If you focus on the problem the problem gets bigger.  If you focus on the solution, the problem goes away."

Shine a little Light.

"Bringing Joy to other people, brings joy back you"

Karma.  We don't know exactly how it works, but still most of us believe in it.  What you put into this world, is what you'll get out.  Poets and musicians have been writing about that concept well into the depths of history. 

I need to think about this more when I want to get upset, or only think about myself.  I wouldn't want to put up with that, why would I ask any more of anybody else? 

Yet again we find a concept easy to grasp in writing, but a little tricky to implement all the time.  Or is it?  

"The more light you shine, the more light shines on you."