Wow - it's been more than three years since I've written anything like this. How much has happened in three years is actually unbelievable. But I'm not really here to recap the last 36+ months of my life (I can come back to that a little later).
I woke up today with a dire need to share my thoughts. Not sure how everyone has been or if my "followers" (do I even have any of those?) have kept up with me on other social media platforms...but life is pretty crazy these days. Work, music, dance studio, family, boyfriend, friends, weddings, the list goes on and on...but at the end of the list - I am thankful. Cheesy, yes. But oh well.
I typically end my day in tears. Not always bad ones, but nonetheless they are there. I cry from stress most of the time just so I can let something out to make room for everything else that I have coming to me. I'm always on the go, and it's very rare I sit down and have a second to breathe (the fact that I'm writing this right now is actually quite unbelievable). But still, tears or not, I am so thankful.
When people ask how I'm doing or how life is going, my answer has been that I'm just tired, almost too tired to enjoy everything. It's a pretty sad answer. But on a drive home the other day, I started thinking to myself about what I can do to make myself feel better on a daily basis. I look around and see a number of my friends doing things to give back to the world and communities (shout out to PUSO for your amazing work), and I can't help but think that my daily complaints are actually about the blessings in my life, not about the mishaps or the tragedies. So many kids and families are suffering from hunger, sickness, homelessness...and I cry/complain every night because my blessings are tiring me. Definitely puts things in perspective.
Everyone's struggles are different and everyone is trying to overcome things that others know nothing about but the one thing we all have in common today is that we woke up, and that's what matters.
So whatever it is you're going after, keep going. Your career, your family, your health, your passion, or even just simply, your sanity - whatever.it.is. - keep going. And believe that there is a greater being (no matter who/what it is you believe in) that is looking out for you and what's best.
What's meant to happen, will happen. And in the meantime, it's up to each of us to make the best of it.
Not trying to preach, but just trying to hold myself accountable with everyone around me: I have nothing to cry about today.
I woke up today with a dire need to share my thoughts. Not sure how everyone has been or if my "followers" (do I even have any of those?) have kept up with me on other social media platforms...but life is pretty crazy these days. Work, music, dance studio, family, boyfriend, friends, weddings, the list goes on and on...but at the end of the list - I am thankful. Cheesy, yes. But oh well.
I typically end my day in tears. Not always bad ones, but nonetheless they are there. I cry from stress most of the time just so I can let something out to make room for everything else that I have coming to me. I'm always on the go, and it's very rare I sit down and have a second to breathe (the fact that I'm writing this right now is actually quite unbelievable). But still, tears or not, I am so thankful.
When people ask how I'm doing or how life is going, my answer has been that I'm just tired, almost too tired to enjoy everything. It's a pretty sad answer. But on a drive home the other day, I started thinking to myself about what I can do to make myself feel better on a daily basis. I look around and see a number of my friends doing things to give back to the world and communities (shout out to PUSO for your amazing work), and I can't help but think that my daily complaints are actually about the blessings in my life, not about the mishaps or the tragedies. So many kids and families are suffering from hunger, sickness, homelessness...and I cry/complain every night because my blessings are tiring me. Definitely puts things in perspective.
Everyone's struggles are different and everyone is trying to overcome things that others know nothing about but the one thing we all have in common today is that we woke up, and that's what matters.
So whatever it is you're going after, keep going. Your career, your family, your health, your passion, or even just simply, your sanity - whatever.it.is. - keep going. And believe that there is a greater being (no matter who/what it is you believe in) that is looking out for you and what's best.
What's meant to happen, will happen. And in the meantime, it's up to each of us to make the best of it.
Not trying to preach, but just trying to hold myself accountable with everyone around me: I have nothing to cry about today.
Happy Thanksgiving!
