On her two feet
the music began to play.
As it played
she watched.
She carried the weight upon her shoulders
she let the burdens hold her down.
In her eyes the world was uneven
in her mind she could do it on her own.
Accustomed, she walked just fine
so numb, she didn't even notice.
Concerned, He looked down at her
and muttered this wouldnt do.
Because I love you, He told her
this is something I must do.
Placing more on her shoulders
the pain began to spread.
She fell
feeling like she failed.
No, He told her.
Pride hinders
you will stand still.
Once you fall
loosen up your hold
and let it all go
you will move again.
This time forward
this time free.
On her two feet
the music began to play.
As it played
she danced.
As she danced, she thanked Him.
As she danced
she was free.
5.02.2010
Entailing Freedom
4.01.2010
Entailing Filling
"The first few days when that space someone/something filled is empty are the hardest; but they always get filled."
People break and people fall, but we underestimate the willingness of others to mend us and reach out their hand to help us up again.
When we hear the word "Relationship" we think two people swooning over each other, romantic, and commited. But in all honesty, it's not just that.
A relationship is the way two people connect on specific levels. A relationship is a generalized friendship made to prosper.
It's funny to look back on your life, and wonder what it would be like without the people in it. Would you be who you are today? Would your life really be all that different?
We can sit back and wish someone had/had never come into our lives. But in all reality, every person in our lives shape and form us in one way or another.
Some are the people we:
The list is infinite, but more true than the grass is green.
Although to fully understand the value of real friendships/relationships, at some point it's necessary to become familiar with the feelings of lonliness, betrayal and rock bottom.
At times, we will feel alone, lost, confused, overwhelmed, etc. but when someone reaches out, or two strangers cross paths at the right time, hope is restored.
We will come across all sorts of people in our lives, all different, all playing different roles.
No one person keeps the same status in our lives forever. Don't be surprised when someone slowly drifts or even walks right out of your life. That's just how it goes.
We must learn to appreciate what/who we have while we have it/them, for nothing and no one is permanent. Allow others to come and go, for we do the same.
Some accompany us in the best memories we'll hold, some disappoint and break our hearts, some simply seem to appear in the backround, and some make us feel alive again.
Regardless, they all matter.
Metaphorically,
Some are a passing glance in the hallway.
Some, an afternoon chat on the porch.
Some are a casual walk in the park.
Some, a marathon partner.
The ugly truth: some friendships aren't meant to last. Some loves are meant to break. Some people are only meant to appear for a fragment of time. And some people just change. Sometimes it hurts like hell, but it becomes altering when we realize the difference they made in us and the good while it lasted.
People are like clouds, they go from hovering on a sunny day to bombarding during a storm. They come and go; potentially annoying, but at times, just what we need.
When one person leaves us, another one comes. Don't get strung up on one, or many for that matter.
It's not really who is filling the space within us, but the mere fact of filling it.
It's strange and sometimes painful when a specific space is filled for so long and suddenly emptied, but it's a transitional stage.
Think of it like a trash can, (or recycling bin) you can't fill it with the new until you dump the old. There's an inbetween stage of required emptiness, but in time, fills back up.
Our friends are some of the most valuable people. They understand our abstract ways of thinking and the silly things we do. Remember all the times you've thanked your lucky stars for them. Don't forget to be that great friend in return. Without our them life would be far more difficult to handle.
Continue to love your family. Blood is the closest relation you'll ever have to someone. When it comes down to it, through our mistakes and foolish decisions/bad attitudes our families love us unconditionally, return to favor and let it show.
Boyfriends/girlfriends share a lot in common on different levels. One tends to bend over backwards for the other, simply out of love and appreciation. Don't take advantage or forget the reasons why you love them. And at all costs, try not to hurt them. Enjoy their company, even if it's for a short time.
People come and go, but our lives keep going. Whoever is meant to be in your life will be right on pace with you and whoever isn't will deviate. Don't stop and wait, Like The Beatles said, "Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on, Lala how the life goes on"
People break and people fall, but we underestimate the willingness of others to mend us and reach out their hand to help us up again.
When we hear the word "Relationship" we think two people swooning over each other, romantic, and commited. But in all honesty, it's not just that.
A relationship is the way two people connect on specific levels. A relationship is a generalized friendship made to prosper.
It's funny to look back on your life, and wonder what it would be like without the people in it. Would you be who you are today? Would your life really be all that different?
We can sit back and wish someone had/had never come into our lives. But in all reality, every person in our lives shape and form us in one way or another.
Some are the people we:
Go to for a good laugh, a slap on the knee kind of person.
-Tell all our secrets to, regardless how significant it is, a confidant.
-Simply cry to, after a rough day, they're a shoulder to cry on.
-Look up to, admire, the hero type.
-Casually speak with, the occasional small talk and "weren't you there when..."
-Rely on for advice. They're our problem solvers.
-Count on as our other half, from bringing out our wild side to breaking the hard shell we cover ourselves in.
The list is infinite, but more true than the grass is green.
Although to fully understand the value of real friendships/relationships, at some point it's necessary to become familiar with the feelings of lonliness, betrayal and rock bottom.
At times, we will feel alone, lost, confused, overwhelmed, etc. but when someone reaches out, or two strangers cross paths at the right time, hope is restored.
We will come across all sorts of people in our lives, all different, all playing different roles.
No one person keeps the same status in our lives forever. Don't be surprised when someone slowly drifts or even walks right out of your life. That's just how it goes.
We must learn to appreciate what/who we have while we have it/them, for nothing and no one is permanent. Allow others to come and go, for we do the same.
Some accompany us in the best memories we'll hold, some disappoint and break our hearts, some simply seem to appear in the backround, and some make us feel alive again.
Regardless, they all matter.
Metaphorically,
Some are a passing glance in the hallway.
Some, an afternoon chat on the porch.
Some are a casual walk in the park.
Some, a marathon partner.
The ugly truth: some friendships aren't meant to last. Some loves are meant to break. Some people are only meant to appear for a fragment of time. And some people just change. Sometimes it hurts like hell, but it becomes altering when we realize the difference they made in us and the good while it lasted.
People are like clouds, they go from hovering on a sunny day to bombarding during a storm. They come and go; potentially annoying, but at times, just what we need.
When one person leaves us, another one comes. Don't get strung up on one, or many for that matter.
It's not really who is filling the space within us, but the mere fact of filling it.
It's strange and sometimes painful when a specific space is filled for so long and suddenly emptied, but it's a transitional stage.
Think of it like a trash can, (or recycling bin) you can't fill it with the new until you dump the old. There's an inbetween stage of required emptiness, but in time, fills back up.
Our friends are some of the most valuable people. They understand our abstract ways of thinking and the silly things we do. Remember all the times you've thanked your lucky stars for them. Don't forget to be that great friend in return. Without our them life would be far more difficult to handle.
Continue to love your family. Blood is the closest relation you'll ever have to someone. When it comes down to it, through our mistakes and foolish decisions/bad attitudes our families love us unconditionally, return to favor and let it show.
Boyfriends/girlfriends share a lot in common on different levels. One tends to bend over backwards for the other, simply out of love and appreciation. Don't take advantage or forget the reasons why you love them. And at all costs, try not to hurt them. Enjoy their company, even if it's for a short time.
People come and go, but our lives keep going. Whoever is meant to be in your life will be right on pace with you and whoever isn't will deviate. Don't stop and wait, Like The Beatles said, "Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on, Lala how the life goes on"
3.28.2010
Entailing Calluses
We callus our hearts just as we callus anything else; Put it through a little pain until eventually it doesn't hurt anymore.
3.21.2010
Entailing The Little Things
As a whole, we tend to be misled by the fact that our well-being is based on the big and central things in our life. What we fail to see is that a collection of little things is just as good.
They're the little things that happen periodically throughout the day that make us smile. The little things that make our day a little better.
The little things that matter vary in individuals, but I believe there is a common understanding that we love the the little things because they make us feel appreciated and reassured that somebody cares.
On the flip side, if there are little things that make us happy, there has to be the ones that do the opposite.
Its apparent an accumulation of little things can actually play a part in our day. The good ones can make a day brighter and the bad ones can be the rain above your head.
I realized lately that unselfish living in the key to happiness.
Being the bigger person in a situation is a guarantee for happier living than resentment.
It's also a guarantee that we won't always get what we want, so what then? Rely on being content.
Last week at yoga, the card I recieved at the beginning was contentment; encouraging me to welcome and accept what life was giving me. This is extremely valid for my life right now as well as others.
For me, a typical high school girl, wants more than anything to get asked to prom senior year. Being a realist, It's extremely likely that wish won't come true. Disappointing? Very. But being content with it will make it easier.
I don't want to move. But its likely my dad will get a job and I will have to pack up and move away from whats familiar and comfortable. But if I look at it with a fresh perspective and become content, it could turn into an adventure.
Sorry, quite the tangent from "little things". Basically, if we live selflessly and do our best to complete the rhelm of little things in someone else's life, it's just as good as them happening to us.
Doing good for others becomes a domino effect, something little and effortless for us could mean to world to someone else.
You may not be stacked with dollar bills to hand over to charity, but use the resources you have to better the world, or at least one persons world.
We underestimate the power and effect we have; Define it, embrace it, use it.
They're the little things that happen periodically throughout the day that make us smile. The little things that make our day a little better.
When sheets/clothes are still warm when you pull them out of the dryer
Finding money in your pocket you didn't know was there
Your favorite song comes on the radio
A compliment from a stranger
Unexpected hugs (from someone you like that is)
Texts from a friend saying how lucky they feel to be your friend
Beating your high score on a game
Finding hidden notes
Not having your phone for a while, getting it and having a bunch of calls/texts.
When someone tells you you look pretty/nice
Genuinely being asked how you're doing
People remembering something you said when you didn't think they would
Getting in your car and noticing your parents filled your gas tank
Being told you make somebody proud
When friends show up at your work just to say hi
People at your game, cheering specifically for you
Finding an old picture that brings back good memories
The little things that matter vary in individuals, but I believe there is a common understanding that we love the the little things because they make us feel appreciated and reassured that somebody cares.
On the flip side, if there are little things that make us happy, there has to be the ones that do the opposite.
Dropping all your books when you're in a hurry
When your phone/ipod dies
How slow the internet can be sometimes
Wanting to wear something and realizing it's in the washing machiene
A pen runs out of ink or pencil out of led
Being able to tell someone doesn't want to talk to you
Seeing someone you like with another person
Can't remember the artist or title of the song stuck in your head
When a DVD skips, especially at your favorite part
Feeling used
Thinking its Thursday, but it's only Tuesday
Misplacing your keys
Forgetting you had homework due
Its apparent an accumulation of little things can actually play a part in our day. The good ones can make a day brighter and the bad ones can be the rain above your head.
I realized lately that unselfish living in the key to happiness.
Being the bigger person in a situation is a guarantee for happier living than resentment.
It's also a guarantee that we won't always get what we want, so what then? Rely on being content.
Last week at yoga, the card I recieved at the beginning was contentment; encouraging me to welcome and accept what life was giving me. This is extremely valid for my life right now as well as others.
For me, a typical high school girl, wants more than anything to get asked to prom senior year. Being a realist, It's extremely likely that wish won't come true. Disappointing? Very. But being content with it will make it easier.
I don't want to move. But its likely my dad will get a job and I will have to pack up and move away from whats familiar and comfortable. But if I look at it with a fresh perspective and become content, it could turn into an adventure.
Sorry, quite the tangent from "little things". Basically, if we live selflessly and do our best to complete the rhelm of little things in someone else's life, it's just as good as them happening to us.
Doing good for others becomes a domino effect, something little and effortless for us could mean to world to someone else.
You may not be stacked with dollar bills to hand over to charity, but use the resources you have to better the world, or at least one persons world.
We underestimate the power and effect we have; Define it, embrace it, use it.
3.10.2010
Entailing Sighs, Head Shaking & Laughter.
There are common occurrences throughout the day that make us just shake our head and sigh deeply, in a sort of "Did that really just happen?" kind of way.
At the same time, they are the sort of things that you can't help but laugh about.
The sighs:
The head shakes
The laughter
I've come to realize lately we just need to shake things off, let them go and move on.
Karma gets everyone at some point or another. Let others make their own mistakes, shake your head and laugh, anxiously awaiting the day we can say, "I told you so."
Quit panicking when things are skewed, they are supposed to be that way.
People do stupid things. We laugh at others, so in return we should laugh at ourselves and allow others to laugh at us.
Being mature could be addressing a matter, but I think from now on, It's like the Beatles said, "Let it be".
A person can only fail so many times before they give up. Well, not necessarily give up, but realize it's a waste of time.
A conversation I recently had with a dear friend left me with this:
If someone shuts and locks the door, I'm not going to bother knocking or bother to pic the lock; I'm just going to shrug my shoulders and walk away.
If somebody is so careless to shut you out, what do you owe them but the sight of your backside heading in the opposite direction? Nothing.
A little sigh of contentment, a head shake of "so be it", and a quiet laugh, we learn to just let things go and avoid the accumulation of potential stresses and such.
Eventually we all fall on the stairs and eventually we all have a pencil snap.
Stand up and for heavens sake watch where you're walking next time, and go ahead and grab a new pencil, maybe just don't fidget so much with it.
At the same time, they are the sort of things that you can't help but laugh about.
The sighs:
- Playing with your mechanical pencil, and the little clasp on the side breaks off. Most people go and get a new pencil.
- An unintentional or intentional flat tire. It's a pain in the ass to put your shoe back on.
- You're finally in bed, almost asleep, and you remember something you need to do.
- Cliffhangers. It would be better just to know how it ends now, not next week or in the sequel that's not even out yet.
- Driving down the isle and you think you see an empty parking spot, but actually, it's not.
The head shakes
- Walk into a room and forgetting all together why you walked in there. Walk out, and you remember why.
- Thinking something, saying it aloud, and it ends up being misconstrued; you try and fix it, but you only make it worse.
- Sometimes people let their butt crack hang out of their jeans; I wonder how they don't realize it.
- When that one person cracks a racist or religious joke, unaware there is a person of that race or religion in the room.
- Ever been so embarrassed/mad/shocked you are utterly speechless? Usually that's followed with a few head shakes.
The laughter
- When people fall, sorry, but that's just funny.
- Sitting in the middle of class and remembering that one time.. As you laugh to yourself, you get a room full of weird looks.
- Red light, the person next to you is rockin' out.
- Over hearing the wrong part of a conversation, say no more.
- Awkward moments are hands down the best, especially with intention to do so.
I've come to realize lately we just need to shake things off, let them go and move on.
Karma gets everyone at some point or another. Let others make their own mistakes, shake your head and laugh, anxiously awaiting the day we can say, "I told you so."
Quit panicking when things are skewed, they are supposed to be that way.
People do stupid things. We laugh at others, so in return we should laugh at ourselves and allow others to laugh at us.
Being mature could be addressing a matter, but I think from now on, It's like the Beatles said, "Let it be".
A person can only fail so many times before they give up. Well, not necessarily give up, but realize it's a waste of time.
A conversation I recently had with a dear friend left me with this:
If someone shuts and locks the door, I'm not going to bother knocking or bother to pic the lock; I'm just going to shrug my shoulders and walk away.
If somebody is so careless to shut you out, what do you owe them but the sight of your backside heading in the opposite direction? Nothing.
A little sigh of contentment, a head shake of "so be it", and a quiet laugh, we learn to just let things go and avoid the accumulation of potential stresses and such.
Eventually we all fall on the stairs and eventually we all have a pencil snap.
Stand up and for heavens sake watch where you're walking next time, and go ahead and grab a new pencil, maybe just don't fidget so much with it.
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