Gosh! I have so many things to say (as I am rather opinionated). Some of you will not like what I have to say. Don't fret little one, I still wish love for you, or as my dear friend Mohammed would say "Due respect to you".
So I'm 20-something, overweight, neurotic, a bit deep at times, an average amount of schizophrenia, a lot of psycho and definitely outspoken! I believe in unconditional love and acceptance and breaking down stereotypes. Oh lord! I feel like I'm starting to get preachy. Blah blah blah...
Anywho... Let's get going with one's first entry...
Today I found a quote by a very (I daresay one of the most) intelligent and wise woman on our planet. Maya Angelou.
"I don't know if I will continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes- it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, 'Well, if I'd known better I'd have done better,' that's all. So you say to people who you think you may have injured, 'I'm sorry,' and then you say to yourself, 'I'm sorry.' If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can't see what we're capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one's own self. I think that young men and women are so caught by the way they see themselves. Now mind you. When a larger society sees them as unattractive, as threats, as too black or too white or too poor or too fat or too thin or too sexual or too asexual, that's rough. But you can overcome that. The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don't have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach."
That bit of wisdom is SO true! I would know because I have made a lot of mistakes in my past and if had to carry the regret from my past around with me then I would have been a wreck of a person today.
Message of the day: forgive yourself for the mistakes you made. Cry a bit. Be depressed for a little while if you have to but get up and go on with your life. The best gift you can give yourself is to start living.
Ah what the hell! Turns out that I'm in a preachy mood. Deal with it!
I'm done for the day.
Peace. Love. Happiness.
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