I Adapt and Overcome
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"With a little perseverance, you can get things done. Without the blind adherence that has conquered some. You can never surrender."
The journey of my life has taken me to places I could have never predicted....some of them cold and dark, sometimes feeling very lost and alone. There have been moments when the weight of this world was pressing against me outwardly, while my heart cried out with such a counter-intuitive passion and longing to do something different. I have not always listened to my heart. I have listened to the voices of my religion, my culture, my family....to the point of losing my own voice and suppressing my own heart. I have been an enabler in relationships, believing that someone else's happiness is more important than my own and sacrificing my joy, my spark for life on the altar of fear and shame. Yes, I have done that. It has taken alot of time, therapy, reflection, and being in the darkest, loneliest places for me to open my eyes to the world in a different way....to see the fallacy of the beliefs that have sunken deep within my psyche. I do not want to have "blind adherence" nor do I want to settle for a life full of fear and shame, codependency and denial. I will never ever surrender to that....ever. So, no matter the dark places and the loneliness, I know that those are passing night times of life and that there will be just as many beautiful, warm mornings to enjoy fully as the complete woman I was born to be.
Today, I chose to do what was counter-intuitive. I chose to make the decision that caused someone else stress and pain, but was the right one. I chose to "mind my own business" and not take responsibility for somone else's. Every single time I make one of those, I feel like I am one step closer to all that I can be. That feels really good :)
"With a little perseverance, you can get things done. Without the blind adherence that has conquered some. You can never surrender."
The journey of my life has taken me to places I could have never predicted....some of them cold and dark, sometimes feeling very lost and alone. There have been moments when the weight of this world was pressing against me outwardly, while my heart cried out with such a counter-intuitive passion and longing to do something different. I have not always listened to my heart. I have listened to the voices of my religion, my culture, my family....to the point of losing my own voice and suppressing my own heart. I have been an enabler in relationships, believing that someone else's happiness is more important than my own and sacrificing my joy, my spark for life on the altar of fear and shame. Yes, I have done that. It has taken alot of time, therapy, reflection, and being in the darkest, loneliest places for me to open my eyes to the world in a different way....to see the fallacy of the beliefs that have sunken deep within my psyche. I do not want to have "blind adherence" nor do I want to settle for a life full of fear and shame, codependency and denial. I will never ever surrender to that....ever. So, no matter the dark places and the loneliness, I know that those are passing night times of life and that there will be just as many beautiful, warm mornings to enjoy fully as the complete woman I was born to be.
Today, I chose to do what was counter-intuitive. I chose to make the decision that caused someone else stress and pain, but was the right one. I chose to "mind my own business" and not take responsibility for somone else's. Every single time I make one of those, I feel like I am one step closer to all that I can be. That feels really good :)
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