the good news.

it was once said by a very wise beyond her age young lady, that

"Everyone has inside him a piece of the good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!"
-Anne Frank.

One of the most important tasks we have here on this beautiful planet we live on is to see that good news in ourselves and in others. Seems pretty simple, right? Well, that is where I have found a discrepancy. All too many of us, myself included, have something keeping us from fully reaching this. Whether that be the walls we put up to keep others from seeing those qualities we don't like about ourselves. It could be the selfish pride that causes us to make comparisons of ourselves and others, not fully giving the other credit for how wonderful they are. We are too focused on how unfair it is that someone is seemingly greater than us. More pretty, more intelligent, more carefree, more loving, more funny, more talented. more. more. more. It is in the judgment that we make in a blink of an eye to those we don't know, just met, or have known for years. We are caught in this web of chaos when we choose to live life this way. We wake up every morning feeling already behind on a fresh new day. We are never fully measuring up in our minds eye, and it wears us down.

The good part about this discrepancy is that it is something we can change if we so desire. We can reframe reality. We choose what we look at, listen to, and respond to. Of course, we are human, negative things happen in our lives and to our world, and we need to build compassion from it. But we are not bound to the negative things in this world, they do not need to deter our happiness one notch. We can focus our sights on the positives of life. We can simply appreciate the good we see in others. Remove those gray cloud feelings of comparison and replace them with compliments, kind words and a healthy desire to be a little better. Taking the back roads in life and using the effort it once took to feel behind and use that effort to get ahead, not of another, but of our past self. To strive confidently towards our potential.

The French novelist, Colette summed up this choice when she said, "What a wonderful life I've had. I only wish I'd realized it sooner." We are the sole inheritors of life's generosity. We are constantly surrounded by the altruism of Mother Earth and the myriad blessings present in hard work and relationships. People are unique creatures, that have abilities to learn from past mistakes, to grow, to look outside themselves, to choose what they want in life, be motivated, and they have the ability to achieve whatever they set their minds to.

Only through feeding our authenticity will we be able to fully dramatize our good news, our potential, our gifts to the world.

let me say that again, in case you read that fast. ONLY through being authentic, not trying to be anybody else than who we ARE, can we fully REVEAL our good news, our POTENTIAL, give our GIFTS to the world, and SHARE them with others. 

So, all this has led me to the following good news and decision that I would like to share. I am going to start a new way of blogging on this blog. Well hold your horses fans from all over the globe (a girl can dream right), I don't know how long it will last, or if it will spark the desire that i yearn for it to spark. So, I may return to my old ways of ramblings in just a few short days. But for now I have found a way for me to feed my authenticity and I am going to seize the opportunity and take it for all it's worth.

i'm going to let go of the things holding me back and let my dreams fuel my true potential.

Cheers to living,

life is wonderful.