If you could step back time, even for just a minute, be able to go to a certain point in your life, experience it all over again, would you do it? Jump back to any point in your life, from the time you were born to present day. If you did,
Would you look at your past self differently?
Would you envy how you used to be,
or would you appreciate the changes you’ve made?
Would you interfere with your past self and give she or he advice, warning, criticism?
Think back on the happiest, or saddest, part of your life. The one segment, one chapter, one place that makes your heart feel different. Not make it flutter, necessarily. None of the cliche descriptions to describe the way it feels. It feels different, deeper, to where the bottom of your heart feels an odd way.
When you find that moment from your life that causes such a reaction, and there was a big red button next to your index finger or a time turner or some other sort of transportation-like device, would you press it or turn it or smash it or just brush your fingers across it only to examine the possibility. Taking the present for granted to relive something you’ve experienced? Or would you see it as coming to binds with the past to make your present better? A good thing versus opening a can of worms. A bad thing versus alteration to a more stable future. Or maybe it would have no affect at all.
Then again, maybe the idea of going back into the past is a form of insecurity. Insecure with the way the present is compared to how the past was. The past is a comfort zone because we know exactly how everything turns out and we’ve had time to reflect on decisions made and possibilities accepted and denied.
If that opportunity laid in your hands; if it was a power that would, in no way, change how you live your life now, what would you do?
That button, the device to transport yourself to the past.. to press it, that presently nonexistent instrument. It would change everything in your head.
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
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Thursday, October 13, 2011
Wild Heart.
Love can be unexpected. It can be unsuccessful. It can be incredible. The individuals may not be entirely perfect, but when combined, they can produce perfect love. Then they can produce real love.
The chemical process of falling in love is parallel to the chemical process that occurs in addiction. For this reason, when we’re in love it can feel like it’s an addiction. Real love, opposed to fantasy love, has to be able to withstand all things. It has to be strong enough to love when loving is hard, understand when understanding is confusing, listen when listening is difficult. It’s the fortress of a successful relationship. Love really is an addiction. But if the two work together, it can be a healthy addiction.
We weren’t put on the earth to be alone. We were put on the earth to find someone to work our lives with; to share our days with, to be an important, stable part of someone’s life. We grew up learning how to love because of the role we played as a child. The unconditional love a parent places on his or her child is an unintentional lesson. Studies have shown that the more love shown, the more successful future relationships the child will have.
We learn to love, and we learn from love. We make mistakes, and we mend mistakes. We fight, and we make up. It’s important to find real love in a relationship and let it build.
And then get married one day and begin the rest of our lives <3
“I tried to control it, tried to maintain it, tried to contain it.. This wild heart of mine.”
The chemical process of falling in love is parallel to the chemical process that occurs in addiction. For this reason, when we’re in love it can feel like it’s an addiction. Real love, opposed to fantasy love, has to be able to withstand all things. It has to be strong enough to love when loving is hard, understand when understanding is confusing, listen when listening is difficult. It’s the fortress of a successful relationship. Love really is an addiction. But if the two work together, it can be a healthy addiction.
We weren’t put on the earth to be alone. We were put on the earth to find someone to work our lives with; to share our days with, to be an important, stable part of someone’s life. We grew up learning how to love because of the role we played as a child. The unconditional love a parent places on his or her child is an unintentional lesson. Studies have shown that the more love shown, the more successful future relationships the child will have.
We learn to love, and we learn from love. We make mistakes, and we mend mistakes. We fight, and we make up. It’s important to find real love in a relationship and let it build.
And then get married one day and begin the rest of our lives <3
“I tried to control it, tried to maintain it, tried to contain it.. This wild heart of mine.”
Monday, September 12, 2011
Stress and a Breath.
Sometimes when things seem to be completely overwhelming, we stress ourselves out. And when we stress ourselves out, it can lead to tearing ourselves apart. We doubt. We doubt ourselves, our ability to complete whatever it is we have, and we doubt time. Nothing in life is in our control when stress consumes us. Time flies by and we seem to get nothing done, and the list never grows smaller. Can’t seem to work through the stress when you’re overanalyzing every single thing. When we don’t know the answer to something, we freak out.
Breathe. Breathe, damn it.
Inhale deeply, let it out slow and steady.
Feel the chills run down your body, let your head rock back, close your eyes.
Three minutes pass, it feels like three seconds pass. Four minutes, four seconds. When we’re stressed, everything seems to be a huge problem. Especially the clock. It’s a four digited line, tormenting the mind. It laughs. As each minute passes, it smiles in a different way, the colon as eyes and the number following glimmering in its selfish power to change the sequence of numbers, eventually starting the process over again after each hour has passed. Damn time, damn stress. Trust. Quit the tearing apart, influencing yourself to believe it can’t be done.
BREATHE.
It can be done. Because if you really think about it, what motivates us more than time? It keeps us on track with what we have to do, where we need to be. The same goes with stress. Without it, we wouldn’t be able to feel. We’re so complex. We have these abilities to experience so many emotions and be the master of them.
We really can’t let them overwhelm us. We have to resist the urge to let them overwhelm us to the point of stressing out, freaking out, and just let it all go. Let the time pass as it may. We should be able to have a trust in ourselves and our abilities to complete anything that comes our way. It’s tied in with confidence. We have to be confident in our abilities and know when and how to deal with problems or conflicts that arise. Doubt lacks confidence. Stress lacks trust.
We lack much more when we have such a tunneled vision of what can and can’t be done. Just breathe and work it out.
Breathe.
Breathe. Breathe, damn it.
Inhale deeply, let it out slow and steady.
Feel the chills run down your body, let your head rock back, close your eyes.
Three minutes pass, it feels like three seconds pass. Four minutes, four seconds. When we’re stressed, everything seems to be a huge problem. Especially the clock. It’s a four digited line, tormenting the mind. It laughs. As each minute passes, it smiles in a different way, the colon as eyes and the number following glimmering in its selfish power to change the sequence of numbers, eventually starting the process over again after each hour has passed. Damn time, damn stress. Trust. Quit the tearing apart, influencing yourself to believe it can’t be done.
BREATHE.
It can be done. Because if you really think about it, what motivates us more than time? It keeps us on track with what we have to do, where we need to be. The same goes with stress. Without it, we wouldn’t be able to feel. We’re so complex. We have these abilities to experience so many emotions and be the master of them.
We really can’t let them overwhelm us. We have to resist the urge to let them overwhelm us to the point of stressing out, freaking out, and just let it all go. Let the time pass as it may. We should be able to have a trust in ourselves and our abilities to complete anything that comes our way. It’s tied in with confidence. We have to be confident in our abilities and know when and how to deal with problems or conflicts that arise. Doubt lacks confidence. Stress lacks trust.
We lack much more when we have such a tunneled vision of what can and can’t be done. Just breathe and work it out.
Breathe.
Monday, February 21, 2011
Fear.
Sometimes it’s hard to reach beyond what you believe is reachable—sometimes you stay put, dismissing the possible opportunities that lay just beyond your reach. But sometimes, you stay distant because you’re afraid of what lies ahead.
Fear is defined as many things. In reference to the common dictionary definition, it is “a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, and so on, whether the threat is real or imagined,” “a specific instance of or propensity for such a feeling,” and “reverential awe.”
Fearing something only makes the concept of fear that much stronger. Fearing danger, fearing pain, fearing evil, fearing of losing control, fearing yourself, fearing something as big as the belief in a god, it’s never necessarily more than a figment of your imagination. Fearing such things only makes you more prone to fear other things.
However, fear enables you to feel. It enables you to experience an emotion so dense, so dimensional. It enables you to respond to situations in an entirely different way than you would without fear present. It tricks your mind, twists it in so many different ways, all to make you ultimately fear the emotion itself that much more. The more you allow fear to enter your life, the more powerful it gets. The more you allow fear to enter your life, the more real it gets. It can easily get in the way and make you become paranoid of the smallest things. You become paranoid to be alone. You become paranoid of your own mind. It overtakes you. And fear, what a small emotion it is, becomes an everyday ordeal.
“Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop” - Unknown
When you allow fear to overtake you, become bigger than faith, you lose sight of the possibilities ahead. You allow negatives to come into your life more than the positives. You can become pessimistic to the point where you find yourself in a rut of depression, which has more facets than even fear.
Faith can act as the opposite of fear. Faith can comfort you in hard times. A belief in something not seen can act as a stronghold. If you believe faith isn’t possible for you to build, stop fearing it. The more you fear, the more you cower away. And having strong faith in something is possible for anyone.
As inevitable as fear may be, you can overcome it. Just as you must work to gain happiness, you must work to dismiss irrational fear. With irrational fear, you can’t reach your full potential. Without irrational fear, you can reach anything. Without irrational fear, you can be faithful. Without irrational fear, you are limitless.
Fear is defined as many things. In reference to the common dictionary definition, it is “a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, and so on, whether the threat is real or imagined,” “a specific instance of or propensity for such a feeling,” and “reverential awe.”
Fearing something only makes the concept of fear that much stronger. Fearing danger, fearing pain, fearing evil, fearing of losing control, fearing yourself, fearing something as big as the belief in a god, it’s never necessarily more than a figment of your imagination. Fearing such things only makes you more prone to fear other things.
However, fear enables you to feel. It enables you to experience an emotion so dense, so dimensional. It enables you to respond to situations in an entirely different way than you would without fear present. It tricks your mind, twists it in so many different ways, all to make you ultimately fear the emotion itself that much more. The more you allow fear to enter your life, the more powerful it gets. The more you allow fear to enter your life, the more real it gets. It can easily get in the way and make you become paranoid of the smallest things. You become paranoid to be alone. You become paranoid of your own mind. It overtakes you. And fear, what a small emotion it is, becomes an everyday ordeal.
“Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop” - Unknown
When you allow fear to overtake you, become bigger than faith, you lose sight of the possibilities ahead. You allow negatives to come into your life more than the positives. You can become pessimistic to the point where you find yourself in a rut of depression, which has more facets than even fear.
Faith can act as the opposite of fear. Faith can comfort you in hard times. A belief in something not seen can act as a stronghold. If you believe faith isn’t possible for you to build, stop fearing it. The more you fear, the more you cower away. And having strong faith in something is possible for anyone.
As inevitable as fear may be, you can overcome it. Just as you must work to gain happiness, you must work to dismiss irrational fear. With irrational fear, you can’t reach your full potential. Without irrational fear, you can reach anything. Without irrational fear, you can be faithful. Without irrational fear, you are limitless.
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