The Power of Choice and Deletion of Should

         Life and people often put so many demands on us, and sometimes the pressure can suffocate us, but it doesn't have to. I do my best not to use "should" in the way I think about and talk about my life, and I am working on eliminating "have to" as well. I either do something or I don't. I either want to do something, or I don't. I'm either assigned something or I'm not. I either have dirty dishes in the sink, or clean ones in the drain. I am not a slave to duty. I have the privilege of choice.
        Let that knowledge sink in. Even if you have deadlines, you have a choice about how you spend your time. Do the things that bring you life, not because you "should", but because you CAN.

A Long Time in Coming

Hi fellow wanderers, discoverers, mourners, rejoicers, 
this post has been a long time in coming, and so has a return to joy. But now, with the return to joy, these words are for you.

Grief is not forever. 
Hope is not gone. 
Pain is not the absence of Joy. 

Agony and Ecstacy are sides of the same coin; if you can howl in utter desperation as you are breaking apart, it is certain that you can find your way back to wholeness. Be where you are, and don't be afraid to feel. Don't be afraid to break. Don't be afraid to be afraid, but only be afraid of not fully living. And even then, don't stay there. Live. 

Love.

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