Monday DOS By: Chuck
Good morning OOB,
Well, yet another week has passed. For those on treatments that can be important because it means you are that much closer to the end of that phase in your life. For others it means that a simple measurement of time has passed in our world. A measurement that is created by us in order to bring some semblance of order to our world.
As humans we’re quite good at creating concepts within our minds that can help us to understand things or even live things that would normally be very hard to do. For example, we have the ability to understand the passage of time giving us the ability to set up goals based on that measurement.
We have the ability to analyze our own thoughts and emotions to the point of changing them if we so desire. This in itself can change the nature of our days and weeks to something a little more tolerable if we desire to do so.
Me; I do this all the time. I search and I search within myself until I can find that little glimmer that has the ability to change the way I’m feeling on those days when I’m not really feeling positive. The part of me that wants to be happy. The part that wants to see the world full of color and life rather then the drab black an white world of one who has lost hope and as such has lost the ability to find that glimmer within.
All I can say is that I know from experience that things are never as bad as they might seem on the surface. Things don’t have to be ugly when there is so much light underneath the obvious surface. Sure, we can wake up feeling horrible physically but that doesn’t mean that we must also feel horrible mentally. Our emotions and perceptions are never written in stone. That’s because we as humans have the unique ability to change things. We have the ability to enhance what is already there.
So never give up on yourself and never give up on the one you love just because things don’t seem to be going right. Look instead to the part of yourself that can change the very world in which you live. If you can find no other glimmer within then look to love. This is a diamond that lives within our very souls and can be the spark that is needed to change our world. It’s the spark that can grow within to the point of consuming us in positive energy.
Thing is, it doesn’t just happen. No, we must first want it to happen. We must first want to climb out of our despair. We must first decide that we don’t want to feel the way we currently do. We must first believe in ourselves and our futures enough to realize the value of bringing that color back into our lives.
I do hope that you all have a wonderful week. I hope that those who have chosen despair can realize that it doesn’t have to be that way. To realize that we can soar to the heavens if we so choose. To realize that yes, it’s a conscious choice to feel as we do whether we’ve chosen to give up or to fly like an eagle.
So hang in there my friends and remember that when you need to find a new path within your own emotions that there really is help here. There really are those who understand. There really are those who will help you to find that spark within you and who can help you to rekindle the fire of life that you so badly want to feel again.
And to those of you who have already made their peace and turned that spark into a fountain of light then I commend you because by those very actions you have changed darkness into light and found your hope and belief in yourself once again!
Onward into the light my friends! Never ever believe that it can be any other way!
Chuck
