Honesty Pays

 Honesty Pays

"Being honest may not get you many friends, but it will get you the right ones"

How many times have we said this, to ourselves and others?

It isn't always a good thing to 'follow the crowd', and (sometimes) honesty is needed.

True, you may stand out but it could help a friend (even save them) from making a very serious mistake. 

He or She may not see it at the time, but when they do eventually come round, he or she will be grateful and will thank you.

Do this for yourself too.

Never be forced into doing something you just do not want to.

You'll be glad you 'listened to yourself'.

Honesty always pays, in more ways than one.

LIVE AND LOVE LIFE!

You Really Are

 You Really Are

"Choose, everyday, to forgive yourself. You are human, flawed, and most of all — worthy of love"

Who is Perfect?

Do we even want to be?

During our lives, we all make mistakes, sometimes we have to live with them, sometimes we just have to "learn" from them.

Forgive yourself and learn from the experience. 

And Move On towards the Future. 

You and I 'Deserve' love — from others and, most of all, from ourselves. 

When we 'look back' on our lives, we should learn from these 'experiences', be happy that we 'got through them', and love ourselves for doing it.

LIVIE AND LOVE LIFE!

Let It Heal

 Let It Heal

"Healing doesn't mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls your life"

And Never Let It.

When we've been through a serious illness, it does take time to physically heal, and we have to let the body 'do it's job'.

How much better we feel when we are 'over it'.

This, of course, can also apply to the mind.

When we've been through a very 'difficult' situation, our minds are 'damaged' and we need to help it to get better.

This includes not re-thinking what happened, and filling our minds with good things to 'fight' the bad memories. 

This will take time and is sometimes a life-long 'treatment'.

Also, never be afraid to ask for help — it is there.

LIVE AND LOVE LIFE!

A Good Idea

 A Good Idea

"Sometimes having coffee with your best friend is all the therapy you need" 

Why spend money you can't afford, speaking to someone you don't know, for half an hour, when you can spend an hour and a half, with your best friend, drinking your favourite drink, for free?

And you feel much better afterwards. 

Don't get me wrong, therapy is so very important, and these therapists are specially trained, but sometimes, being with your best friend and talking is a better 'kind' of therapy.

Also, we could ask ourselves: "Will my best friend feel 'comfortable' enough to come to me and talk?"

Life really can be a two-way street.

LIVE AND LOVE LIFE!

"It" Won't Leave You

 "It" Won't Leave You 

"What breaks you, won't heal you. What loves you, Won't leave you"

We all know this: going through a bad situation can have such a bad effect on our health, that we need that Special Love to 'heal' us.

And real Love will never leave you!

When we have this true Love, "we" are the ones who are living in the greener patch.

And we deserve this.

True Love is also good for our mental health too.

All the worry leaves you because 'you just know' that it is right.

"What loves you, won't leave you".

LIVE AND LOVE LIFE!

Be Strong!

 Be Strong!

"The pain of yesterday is the strength of today"

We all go through life learning from one experience to another, and we can be either Strengthened or weakened by this.

Also, when we look back at what we have gone through, how do we feel?

We should feel Proud of how far we have come, and how we may have changed for the better. 

In different words: we won't make that mistake again.

When something 'happens', it is very painful at the time, and it is then that we need to look forwards and remember how much Stronger we will be in the future.

So, look in the mirror and be really Proud because you are that much Stronger. 

LIVE AND LOVE LIFE!

Happy, Healthy, Alive

 Happy, Healthy, Alive 

"I don't want a perfect life, but I'll take a happy life"

What is perfection?

Do we need to be perfect?

My answers to these two questions are => 

If you are alive > you have perfection.

To be alive > is to be perfect.

We are brought up and raised with "facts" about 'how' we should live and 'who' we should be.

But is this 'healthy' for us personally?

Surely it would be better to "accept" who we are and to live accordingly. 

To be "True" to ourselves. 

It is true, that we do have to live by certain standards = get the sums right and making sure we can read and write correctly, (I call these the 'basics' of life), but = we should "live" in a way which makes us Personally Happy. 

This is Perfect.

LIVE AND LOVE LIFE!