Too Good To Be True?!

Why do we think things can be too good to be true?  Are we not allowed to experience something exceptional?  Something amazing?  Something wonderful?  Are we so use to settling for "average" or "good" that we think anything beyond that is unattainable?  WHY IS THAT?

Why is it when something awesome comes along do we question it?  We think, this isn't normal, this cant be right.  What is triggering that thought?  Is it fear?  Is it just your body processing this amazing thing b/c its so use to processing average things?  Or maybe it could be a gut feeling that this isn't right....

Time will tell...  But I challenge you to strive for the exceptional.  Why be average?  I don't want an average life.  I want an exceptional life!  I don't want to live a boring life.  I want to live a fun and exciting life!  Don't you?

“If we study what is merely average, we will remain merely average.” — Shawn Achor

 

Do not let...

BELIEVE

Heartache

Situations in life can be so interesting.  So deep but yet so inconclusive at times.  You can have months of confusion, pain, excitement, sadness, love and exhilaration all at the same time that can cause quite a drain on your heart and mind.  The pain of the unknown can be so daunting.  But what I think is worse, is the final pain.  The pain you feel in your heart when you have that moment of realization...  The realization that the unknown is now the known.  Or what you have been trying to hide from yourself this whole time is finally revealed.  The ache in your heart of FINALLY, now I know.  But at the same time the ultimate feeling of sadness when your inconclusive situation reveals itself. 

On the other side of the coin though is freedom.  A chapter closed that once left you excited and hopeless.  A feeling of knowing your life will now move forward and into other directions.  Life.  Does.  Go.  On.

A heartache can really feel like your heart and chest is aching.  Your collar bones feel like they want to cave forward as if they are giving your tears less distance to fall.  But that is the last and final pain you will feel, on your way up and onward to better things.  BE STRONG.  :)

Stay Positive! :)

"When I went through my last breakup (before my current, very happy relationship) — I think I was on breakup #72 in my dating lifetime — I was like, game over. I’m not doing this anymore. Because at a certain point, after enough relationships bomb, you just don’t have the will to keep trying anymore. I know I didn’t. I was like Wile E. Coyote when he gets flattened by the Roadrunner, only without the motivation to get back up. It wasn’t that I was so heartbroken over this guy; it was that I was so heartbroken over constantly getting my heart broken. While I was peeling my soul off the asphalt (read: drinking lots of Malbec and doing lots of hot yoga) a friend said something helpful to me: Where there is driftwood."


http://www.thefrisky.com/2013-08-27/dating-donts-where-there-is-driftwood/




 

SPEAK dangit

How many times in life have you wanted to say something, but didn't?  How many times have you wanted to tell someone you love them, but didn't?  And the days, weeks, months and sometimes even years go by and you wonder, WHAT IF!?  That friggin blows. What does it take for someone to get the courage to really say how they feel?????

In my opinion it takes life experience. Experiences in comfortable and uncomfortable situations. Experiences in pain and joy, so you really understand the spectrum of what is awesome, and what isn't, and how you can articulate your desired direction towards joy versus pain. You have to have gone through some bad and interesting times to finally get the courage to say HEY, I don't want to deal with this anymore. Or, this is what I want, what I like, etc. Or how about, I LOVE YOU and I want to be with YOU. Oh how beautiful those words sound, but oh how difficult they are to say. 

In 2013 this world is an interesting place, and its ever so difficult to REALLY connect with someone. If you find someone that makes you smile, laugh, or even feel uncomfortable...TELL them. There is always a respectful and mature way to SPEAK to and discuss your feelings.  Life is too short to go another day without being true to what makes your heart smile. ❤

And as much as I am speaking to everyone else, don't we often need to take our own advice!?  

Really???

Wow - In the year 2013 this article was really written?????

Why don't you have any black friends?  http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/19/opinion/colby-black-friends/index.html?hpt=hp_t4

Where in the heck are they polling this question, po-dunk town in the country or something?  I experienced many emotions when reading this article:  sadness, confusion, blasphemy, and an eagerness to prove this article wrong. 

THANK GOD my family never spoke of race growing up.  Not once did my parents ever defy or mention someone by the color of their skin.  Never hearing about race created an open environment and open mind where labels were never created.  It allowed me to truly have an open mind and experience people for people.  I will forever thank my parents for this.