If ever your accomplishment is deception-you have won at being a counterfeit but have failed at impacting life with the uniqueness only you bring to this world. Don't fill your moments re-living someone else's days and life. One day you'll wake up void wondering what you truly would have done, had your life been your own. And you'll be angry at those who encouraged you to be someone other than yourself. Manufactured occasions leave you absent of the fulfillment of genuine relationships and yes precious memories. Why? Because they are not yours they are someone Else's. ~Thoughts on why we encourage young women and girls to be themselves and love who they are.
As I stated yesterday I went for a walk and enjoyable it was. It was windy and I loved it. 70 degrees and a breeze didn't make for a bad time outdoors at all. Needless to say it brought yesterday's earlier agitation (read totally perturbed) to a simmer and provided an interesting perspective. I relished the blowing air and thought about my time in college. It was great and I got through it with out too much drama or incident (with the exception of a few memorables, which is for another day another post). That being said, I didn't drink, smoke or experiment with drugs. I don't say that as some type of badge of honor because that's not the case at all. But it was apparent, that somewhere along the way I truly believed what my grandparents told me growing up about character, honor, and integrity. However, the older I get I've grown wary or maybe even cynical at what maybe appears to be watered-down standards we've immersed ourselves in society. Notice I say ...
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