30 Oct 2015

Life, life is this journey we go through. We were born into it without much awareness, mostly unconscious and with time we lived, we experienced, we learned. Through all of these we have pained, we have laughed, we have cried and we have deepened.

If you're lucky, you have not lost your hope in the goodness of people. Or maybe by choice you decided to be positive and not give up trusting in yourself and others. If you have a decent life you may think that it's always going to be like that. But is it?

Is life always going to be the same for us? Are we always going to have the same experience of living? What if you did something so bad that your guilt eats you inside? What if the person you loved the most died or went with another? What if you made your fortune and lost it? Or maybe you have never made it and your friends did?

Maybe you were healthy at one time and then age and bad habits caught up with you. Maybe you were religious and looked up to something greater, until you saw your problems not being resolved just by praying. Maybe you have a good life, you like it and you think this is the best it can get. But is it?

No matter the state of your life, it can always get better!

If we choose to be aware, if we choose to be honest, if we look at ourselves, we are going to always see areas that can be improved. If we look within, at the world, at people and those we love, we could see there are things we can do to make things better, to be better.

When shall we start? Why not today? Tomorrow never comes.

Why work to be better? Because improving is good. Because we take the reigns of our lives, because we take charge of our path, because this is to be empowered!

How? By making every decision a good one, by making every choice with the intent to be better people, to do better at what we do!

What? What is the prize? The what is our soul, our joy, our self-esteem. The what is to be proud of who we are.

Every step we take, every word we speak, every decision we make is an opportunity to go towards what we dream we can be. Or to be just a reactive talking head wanting to be accepted by those we don't even admire.

What then will our choice be? To choose our aim, to work hard at it, to fall and stand up, or to give up on living, becoming cynics with broken dreams?

What then will it be? Will we choose to awaken, to see and be open to the world, to listen to it, to be sensitive to what it is telling us, or will we lose ourselves in socially accepted addictions to food, drinks, sex, money, material possessions, power, acceptance, recognition, fame and whatever we think will fix our inner void!

What then will it be? Are we ever going to be better than this? Better than what we are now? Are we going to strive to be great by choice? Or are we going to chose our pride, that says we are already all we can be?

No, no!

The path of greatness is the path walked by those who choose not to give up! The path is not traveled by meek ones, it is traversed by those who with every fall become tougher, who with every mistake become more humble, who with every pain become more loving. Success is to live this way; success is to say, "I love my life!" It is to say, "I am proud of who I am." Because you know you always want to be better.

The choice is ours. Don't wait for someone to fix your life for you, don't wait for justice to just happen. The world doesn't work like that. Stand up, open your eyes, open your heart and walk with your head up towards your highest aims. And if you can, help others along the way.

Life. We are here on this planet, we live with others. We are part of a human system that is as dark as it can be bright. It is as broken as it can be good. No matter our state, we can always choose to do right.

Go, go my friend. Don’t look back at a life lived with insecurities, lived with fears that chained you for years. Now is the time, today is the day for you to say:

"I am worth it! I am because I choose to be. I am because I value myself with my choices, because I do what is good for me, not only what feels good. I am because I am a warrior, I am fighter, I am a lover of life!"

Say it! Own it! Live it! Be it!

And share your light!

We all need those shining stars to guide the way!

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STRIVE TO BE GREAT!