Hmmm.... All good titles, but all tie together with today's flossing..... Okay, just gonna sum this up to Three titles... one blog.... Seems to fit. Lets begin.... shall we? Okay.
When it comes down to this journey called life and the adventures we endure, we have choices to make. Some result in excellent results while others result in thinking we could have hoped for better. The difficult times challenge us to put in effort when there is a shortage in supply of confidence. Here are three little stories that tie together so well that it is just better to share their common thread and move forward. Believe me.... there is a lesson learned in all of this.....
I have people call me and ask for advice or insight. I appreciate it, but what I offer in advise is only a tool for them to become a deeper thinker to find their own solutions. Sadly, people can be short-sighted without any effort. Really, it is known that people have their own preconceived ideas and ideals to what they want to hear as opposed to what they need to know. One call recently was regarding the fear instilled in test results and the uncertainty of what the future holds. People need to remember that fate does not decide your course of action. Knowledge is key and effort is necessary. Ignorance is never bliss when you are given the opportunity to fight for all it is worth until the end from the knowledge presenting itself. When you keep trying, but still fail in the end.... you can at least hold your head up high and say without conviction that you exhausted every attempt to fix the problem and that you can walk away with no regrets from our efforts.
Family is not just a group of people that share a last name or a DNA strain. Family needs to have a foundation of mutual trust, respect and understanding. Communication is essential, but sadly the pull for independence makes it hard to believe in the help offered. Children will continue to repeat the past as long as there are parents that refuse to take the effort to change the pattern. It is not about control, but sharing their experiences to better educate their children to seek a different course of action or alter the perception. Regardless of the hormonal, emotional, or peer-pressure that is bestowed upon our youth, we as parents, need to freely give honesty and respect to receive it in return. Knowing this is only part of the battle, but persistence is essential. Understanding that feelings are normal, there needs to be a connection to get through. As long as you are determined to exhaust all avenues to get though to our children, we do need to step back and let them learn so when it becomes their time, they will appreciate and respect our efforts. In the end, all we can say is that we did the best we can do and there are no regrets in the results.
Life is never meant to be an easy thing. There are challenges at every step along the way. There will be times that we will fall victim to failure, but it takes the will to live to keep trying. Not everything is meant to be the way you want it or need it. These are the lessons that life offers. We experience it, we learn from it, and we pass the knowledge to others. Deep thought offers the opportunity for knowledge. Effort from consistent failed attempts are the stepping stone for having no regrets in the end because really..... nobody is meant to get out alive in the end. People are complex. There is more to a person than what you can touch or hear. There are things that live beyond the tangible and take place in others.... they are memories. As long as the memory stays alive, there is no true end. I learned this at a time when I felt I was at the end of my string. I fear dying and that is a natural thing. What confuses me is taking something too soon. In our youth, we all have probably had a moment that we fell weak to ending life because the feeling of defeat was too painful to bear. I am a statistic in the numbers of people that thought of suicide. Am I proud of that? No. Am I ashamed that I have thought about it and even tried? Yes and no. What I felt was real to me and the desire was strong, but it taught me a valuable lesson about life. I believed that I was forgettable and insignificant, but was told otherwise. Gotta love that mental instability when deep thought takes a vacation, right? Fortunately, not everyone suffers from deep thought loss at the same time and there will always be a person that pulls us up from the brink of ending our story too soon. Sadly, there are some that manage to hide from those Earthbound angels and succeed in ending it all. I have no doubt that there are regrets when that happens. People wonder what their purpose in life is when it feels like all else has failed.... here is what the job we are all required to do.... We are to help one another to want to live. Those challenges are opportunities of strength and at times need to be faced alone, but are not required to be done alone. It is a choice we make. While we all fear the end, we also know that nobody ever gets out alive, but it is far better to go knowing that there are no regrets along the way.
For someone that faces the unknown with blinders and earmuffs, there is only one person to blame.... you. Think about it and do everything that you can to fight for your story to be your own. Never let trivial things dictate where you want to be, but think long and hard about the others in your life and their memories of you because what you do does affect others. They are the ones that tell your story after you are gone.....
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