I know lately I haven't been writing a whole lot; or at least as much as I did in the beginning. But I'd like to look at that as progress, progress in this journey I am on. In the beginning I had a lot of time in my life, time for me to reflect, time to think of what had happened, time to think of what was to come. And I felt I needed to write, a lot. It helped me so much, that I honestly attribute a lot of my progress to my writing. Simply because it has allowed me to put everything out there and help others in the process. But now, now I've become more active, have gone back to my old self. I stay busier and fill my life with other things, other people. Lately, I've been choosing to write when I'm inspired about a particular subject or something happens in my life. Today, I'd like to talk about new opportunities and new beginnings; really the essence of what keeps us moving forward in life.
I think sometimes we concern ourselves too much with circumstances that we forget to look forward; and I am guilty of that. It is completely understandable, however, for us to feel as if we need to pay attention to our current circumstances, pay attention to what is happening around us and what has happened in the past, because after all it is reality. Sometime ago I talked about freedom, freedom to move on. And when I think back to that, I realize that for me to have the freedom to move forward to new opportunities and to produce results in my life, I need to start living in the present and not in the past. That's easier said than done, but it is what I chose to do.
New opportunities come to us every day. Some bigger than others, some life changing, some trivial. And you must stay open to them, or they will pass you by. You never know in life, when that one life changing opportunity will come, and that is why I choose to make the best of every opportunity that is given to me. Opportunities are gifts, from God I'd like to think, through coincidence, through other people, through life. Life opens up opportunities to you, every day, and you can either choose to take them or choose to be afraid of taking them and missing out. I have learned that sometimes opportunities are disguised as hard work, as trouble, even pain, and that is why people fail to recognize them. But as with anything else in life, greatness only comes with hard work, dedication and sacrifice. I have recently realized that I need to think of myself first and others second, put myself in a position to succeed, and find my happiness. And I know that for it to happen, I need to stay open to any opportunity life throws at me. Things happen for a reason, you meet people for a reason, you find things every day for a reason. And keep in mind that those reasons are truly irrelevant, and you shouldn't try to understand the whys of life. As I do, you should only embrace the opportunities as they come and try; try new things.
Every day we wake up, could be the day we lose someone we love; it could even be our last day. We never know when those days will come and that is why I think I keep talking about opportunities. Life has a way to give us chances; chances for us to be with people we love, when we didn't expect to be with them, chances to meet new people we would have never met, under other circumstances! I believe, and I tell those I care about, that we need to seize those opportunities and cherish them; don't be afraid of them. Choose happiness over sadness and excitement over fear. Every new opportunity that opens up has good and bad, and sometimes people focus only on the bad, the fear of what could be. But we need to focus on the good, the happiness those opportunities could bring to us, and to others. No one said it would be easy, and trust me, it won't, but why go through life afraid of what life itself can throw at you? In all honestly, there are going to be some horrible things that happen, to all of us. But there is a reason for them and I am starting to see them. Who knows what the future holds, who knows what will happen tomorrow, in a week, in a month... I sure don't, but I know that whatever it is life puts in front of me, through chance, through others, I will be open to it. Opportunities are nothing but a key to a door we have never opened and we have no idea what is behind it. But if we never open it, we'll never find out.
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