change, just happens!

and like a caterpillar peeling out of its caccoon to become a radiant butterfly...

I, too, am peeling out of my old life (and what I always thought I knew) to become my new radiant self. Free to fly, free to be free, free to make my own choices, free to love, free to be happy, free to give when i want to give, free to receive, free to feel what I want to feel, free to control my emotions, free to wholly just be ME!

there are some things in life that are out of my control, like change. some times it just happens. time changes things. time changes people. time changes me. change can be a good thing but it can also just be. good or bad. good & bad. good/bad.

i've been coming to see in myself as i see it in others around me that a lot of this change that happens happen when we allow it to happen. there are some changes that we can't control and they just take place, like people. but there are other areas of change that are within our grasp, like ourselves. i've come to see and experience that with change can come with a dark cloud of fear. fear of the "unknown", to be exact. this unknown can be an exciting time with much to anticipate with what it will bring but at the same time it can be a bit intimidating because you don't know what will be offered and some just don't want change to occur because they're just accustomed to what they know.

there's a saying that always got me thinking that goes, "you can run away from your problems but you can't run away from yourself." many times we think that if we can just "get away from it all" that magically some genie will come and resolve all of our problems by our disappearance from the thing we're running away from. whether that may be circumstances, people or just life in general. but many times those problems we're running away from are just screaming out for some kind of change to happen. but have you ever thought about how maybe that problem is not what's in front of you but what's inside? that maybe the problem itself was not what you see but it was just YOU all along? i've come to familiarize myself with the concept that if things around me and life in general is not changing and i'm not satisfied with the way things are then the only thing left to do is to change myself, my attitude, my perspectives, my actions and most importantly, my heart.

"Blessed are the pure in heart

for they shall see God"

(Matthew 5:8)

-Live Productively