Do people actually just get up from bed one morning and decide to always look at life from a ‘glass half full’, ‘smell the roses’, ‘walking on sunshine’ perspective, or does something [unpleasant] happen to them to open their eyes to the joys of living this kind of life? I will say this, the former is what we probably think absent-mindedly to do, and the latter is likely the only way it’s actually carried out.

There’s a saying that goes, there is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you—like having suffered and not learned, having experienced and not applied. I believe its foolish to experience and refuse to change or grow. Insisting on remaining stagnant. Life is about growth, and happiness grows from sorrow, from human lives.

In speaking of this, the issue of taking your own advice comes into play. Then you realize how hard it is to even do that. Letting go of all the thoughts that don’t help you grow could be a facilitator I suppose.

I’m not perfect, I have a tendency to overthink, I get lazy and stagnant, and I don’t meditate on the word of God as much as I would like to. So I do pray for more peace of mind, and to be the kind of woman that Id see walking down the street and wish to emulate. The Proverbs 31, phenomenal-woman kind of woman, that wears strength and honor as her clothing, that opens her mouth with wisdom; and allows her tongue to be the law of kindness. The kind of woman that doesn’t bow her head, and shout or jump about or have to talk real loud. That’s just effortlessly phenomenal in my flaws and all.