"The modern fairy tale ending is the reverse of the traditional one: a woman does not wait for Prince Charming to bring her happiness; she lives happily ever after only by refusing to wait for him - or by actually rejecting him. It is those who persist in hoping for a Prince Charming who are setting themselves up for disillusionment and unhappiness."
"SHE discovered SHE had been the one SHE had been waiting for..."
Some might feel sorry for me, or have some dream for me that I have yet to possess. Because you see I'm single, and I don't strive to go out in life in quest of finding someone to spend the rest of my life with. I am open to such a path if that is what life presents but this is not my life's quest. I am determined to live my life in this very moment and not wait for someone to walk into my life to begin living. I believe in someone to share in this journey with, to love to support and all that jazz but I also refuse to believe that my life is less if no such a person is found. Maybe I am stubborn, to not settle, to not go in quest of finding. Maybe I am naive to think and fully believe the only person that truly completes you is you, yourself. Yea, I believe people around you make you better, they make a difference but in the end the one that feels, that lives, that grows, that changes, that accepts, that loves, that breaths is in fact YOU. I could sit around and feel all sorry for myself because I don't have the ring, the house, the kid but the truth is those are dreams and hopes for a different life that is not mine. Maybe that life will be mine someday maybe it won't. What I know is that I won't waste the life I have been given right now in this moment, waiting. No one, I don't care who you are waiting for... is actually worth waiting to live your life. Happiness is a state of mind, thou others can bring sparks of happiness into your life, it is up to you to keep that flame lit.
"I don't need a man to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we'll ever have is the one with ourselves."
"Being single is getting over the illusion that there is somebody out there to complete you and taking charge of your own life."
Who I am will not change by whether or not I am in a relationship. Who I am is not based on one single person in my life. I am changed by each person I meet and cross paths with. I am better and more because I allow all to affect my being and the growth of that being. Who I am is not about who I am with but where I am going in this life with all those around me. For I love and I am loved. I care and I am cared for. My life isn't missing some piece to the puzzle of happiness in this moment. I am fulfilled, I am content - well about as content as I can or ever will be. I am confident in the life journey that I am on, and I am positive just like it always has done in the past it will lead me to all the places and to all the people I am meant to be at and with.
"You can explore the universe looking for somebody who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and you will not find that person anywhere."
"Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free til they find someone just as wild to run with them."
Thou my dreams and hopes are different than most, they aren't graded as any less. For my mission and goal in life is to LIVE. I am in quest of truly living this life and making each person I meet - each place I go better than what I first found it to be. I am here to learn about such things as compassion, humanity, grace, understanding and integrity in hopes I can truly make a difference and make my life count. Just as my dreams have grown and changed over the years I change and grow as a being with them. For yes when I was five or ten I dreamed of Prince Charming and the white wedding - the bus load of kids. But sometimes if were lucky bigger and better dreams come true in our lives. One day we wake up and reflect on all the things we have been able to do, all the places we have seen, all the people we have met, all the life experiences we have been able to feel see and live. And you find yourself with a full understanding and acceptance that we can't have it all, we are never meant to have it all. I refuse to sacrifice my moments of happiness and just life in general waiting. No one is worth the wait. No one is worth missing out for what this world and life has to offer. So whether you are with someone or not - realize that you are the seeker and the holder of your life's happiness. And you have a choice each and every day - every second every moment every breath to be happy or not. Don't let someone be the master - the driver -the giver or the taker in your life. Steer and live your own journey, allow people to influence to support to encourage to love to change you as you go but be the commander of your fate your destiny your journey your life. Your life is a gift don't waste it by waiting.
"Being single used to mean that nobody wanted you. Now it means you're pretty sexy and you're taking your time deciding how you want your life to be and who you want to spend it with."
Besides you just may be waiting for yourself to say this...
"My knight and shining armor turned out to be a loser in aluminum foil."
"More than anything I want to trust in a journey that I don't understand."
"I write entirely to find out what I am thinking & feeling, what I am looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear."
"Loving you changed my life. It should come as no surprise that losing you has done the same."
"I am living proof that a shattered heart can still beat.:
"I am living proof that a shattered heart can still beat.:
LOVEthisLiFE
- Michelle
- "Life lies in the JOURNEY not the Destination." Everyday I awake to embrace the day I have been given. Thru times of struggle and in happiness--I find reasons each and everyday to LOVEthisLIFE.
Every story is one to be heard....
"You have been given the chance to live, so LIVE."
"Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future. Therefore, you can trust this indirect, oblique side of yourself. If you do, it will take you where you need to go. But more importantly it will teach you a kindness of rhythm in your journey."
"Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly, your wholeness when you are broken, your innocence when you feel guilty and your purpose when you are confused."
"I may not have gone where I intended to go - but I believe I have ended up where I needed to be."
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy.' They told me - I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life."
"If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars."
"Some people just live life in a way that well seems against the grain - never taking the paved way the easy way never living to the checklist of life...but maybe just maybe they are seeking a little bit more from life."
"All of your life is about growing into your personal best...all of your life is about growing into greatness."
"When something bad happens, you have three choices...you can either let it define you, let it destroy you OR you can let it strengthen you."
"I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders."
"Do one thing everyday that scares the complete shit out of you."
"Try to be like a turlte, at ease in your own shell."
"There is a great mystery that none of us will get until that last breath and EVERYTHING will become VERY CLEAR."
"There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with."
"Overcome the notion that you must be regular it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary."
"Too much has been given much is required. You must do something for the greater good to show your gratefulness for the blessings in your life."
"The CHALLENGE of my LIFE is to see how far I can take it."
"There are things that we don't want to happen but have to accept, things we don't want to know but have to learn, and people we can't live without but have to let go."
Never ask, "What reason do I have to be happy?" Instead ask, "To what purpose can I attach my happiness?"
"Maybe mistakes are what makes our fate - without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we never veered off course we wouldn't be who we are now."
"The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt."
"Michelangelo said the best way to judge the essential elements of a sculpture is to throw it down a hill and the unimportant pieces will breake away. Sometimes life is like that. It tosses us down a hill. But when we reach the bottom and only the important things are left, that's when our vision clears. That's when we hold on tight to what we know, while hope stirs inside us. It's all a matter of perspective."
"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm but to add color to my sunset sky."
"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces - I would still plant my apple tree."
"Turn your wounds into wisdom and your mess into your message."
"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."
"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek & find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."
"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."
"It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle."
"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet."
"When you find the way others will find you. Passing by on the road they will be drawn to your door. The way that cannot be heard will be echoed in your voice. The way that cannot be seen will be reflected in your eyes." -Choose your own journey even if it means taking a path no one ever has.
"The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer anwsers."
No comments:
Post a Comment