This is YOUR life, are you who YOU want to be?

This Is Your Life - Switchfoot

"Yesterday is a wrinkle on your forehead
Yesterday is a promise that you've broken
Don't close your eyes, don't close your eyes
This is your life and today is all you've got now
Yeah, and today is all you'll ever have
Don't close your eyes
Don't close your eyes

This is your life, are you who you want to be?
This is your life, are you who you want to be?
This is your life, is it everything you dreamed that it would be?
When the world was younger and you had everything to lose

Yesterday is a kid in the corner
Yesterday is dead and over

This is your life, are you who you want to be?
This is your life, are you who you want to be?
This is your life, is it everything you dreamed that it would be?
When the world was younger and you had everything to lose

Don't close your eyes
Don't close your eyes
Don't close your eyes
Don't close your eyes

This is your life are you who you want to be?
This is your life are you who you want to be?

This is your life, are you who you want to be?
This is your life, are you who you want to be?
This is your life, is it everything you dreamed it would be
When the world was younger and you had everything to lose

And you had everything to lose"

There always comes a time in our lives where we wonder, are we who we want to be and where we want to be. We wonder if we have done enough or if there is enough time to do more. Sometimes things don't work out and you sit and feel sorry for yourself. Sometimes you don't have the career you wanted, or the friends you thought you had are drifting away, maybe you've lost some people or just lost yourself along this path called life. Things don't work out the way we want them to. If it did then where would there be space to grow? Things go wrong for a reason. Maybe you are not in the career you wanted because it was never part of your destiny or maybe your friends drifted apart because they are no longer on the same life path as you and that leaves room to meet other people who are on the same path. We lose some people because they did what they needed to do on this earth and they needed to move on to something else. If you've lost your meaning for life, it is life telling you to grow up. It is always those most uncomfortable situations where we feel the most pain that we learn the most. 

"When the world was younger and you had everything to lose"How true is this statement. When we are young, we show less fear because we knew we had everything to lose but as we get older, it gets harder to change and to take risk because we fear change. But no matter how old you are, or where you are in your life, there is always space to grow and there is always room for change. Change is one of the most inevitable things life has to offer and instead of fearing it we must embrace it because it is change that takes us out of those darkest moments. It is change that helps us to grow. It is change that allows us to see life in perspective.

So now you reading this post and wondering okay cool this relates to me but what do I do now?
The first thing you do is to realize you are not alone and that there are many people relating to this post.
Then you think about all the things that have gone RIGHT in your life. Think of all those things and be grateful for them.
Then you need to make changes, think of all the negative things and how you can change it, make new friends, find hobbies, get creative, work on your existing relationships, whatever you feel needs work.
Watch how you start to find your way again. Watch how you start to realize, wait this is the life I want this is who I want to be.

Remember, this is YOUR life, you have control over how you see the world. You have the ability to make choices of how you choose to respond to situations. Your life is yours for the taking so make it a good one.

Much love
~ S
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xoxo