Sometimes it's hard to see the sunshine through the clouds. Sometimes you feel the sun will never shine again. You try so hard to be positive and smile. You try to put on the facade of a happy life and move forward through the day to day. Sometimes you just feel like you want it all to end. Sometimes it seems like ending it all would be best for everyone. You are not usually this negative, but lately bitterness is taking over the heart and you don't think you can go on. Please know the end is not the solution. The end is really just the beginning of the next, more important chapter in your life.
We never know what lies ahead. We can plan and dream, but we can never be certain what tomorrow holds. As we seek to find out our future, we sometimes stumble over our own hopes and fears, crashing as we go. The sad thing is that it is hard to see the positives you encounter while your eyes are clouded by the stinging pain of disappointment and heartache.
As one year closes (365 days of life and living) and a new year begins, how do we move forward on our own when we have been so shielded and protected by others along the way? We must realize we are not alone. We are never alone. There is always someone waiting to be there for us, We may not have the person or people we once had in our lives making us happy and protecting us, but we do have support and encouragement from others we may not have noticed for a while. Recognizing our new paths will take time and positive thinking, but we can achieve our ultimate goals and reach our dream heights.
As the end of one chapter arrives look forward to whatever lies ahead. Be cautious, but hopeful. Be anxious, but don't worry. Don't give up on your hopes and dreams, rewrite them for your new circumstances and look ahead with optimism as you prepare yourself for the next chapter and write it from the heart as you move yourself onward and upward.
I am ready to rewrite my hopes and dreams to fit my new reality. I am ready to begin writing the next chapter, the best chapter yet to be written. Join me and be a part of the move forward into the new year and a more hopeful time.
2 comments:
Well said, sir. Onward and upward.
I've felt like this many times, often enough to have wished life had a fast-forward button to just get something behind me.
I watched "After Earth" last night and Will Smith's character had a few lines about fear that I want to use in the next year. That fear is in our imaginations as stories we tell ourselves.(Paraphrased)
My onward has to be getting to know new people in spite of huge fears of rejection.
What you wrote seems to come from experience and I hope you and anyone else who needs this can find their onward and upward when they really need it.
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