Be positive, live, learn, grow

The events of the past week have really taught me something about the power of others to bring us down with their negative judgements of us. I went through so much pain this week but so much that was positive too, being able to connect with old friends from school and make a new connection with someone with a lot of love in their heart. This has taught me the worst thing that negative people and experiences can do is cut us away from our own power to rise again and champion ourselves and reach for something positive or more nourishing.

The degree of joy we can find in this life depends on the connections we can build to those things and energies that are life sustaining, rather than life negating for us. The world can drain us dry if we let it. We suffer when we lose the connection to both our heart and soul and we all need places and things that fulfil our true needs and nourish our spirit.

Knowing too that its fine to fail and fall and that there will be a chance to learn and rise means we accept that life and other people are not perfect and neither are we. To be loved in our brokenness and failure and be encouraged helps us to heal. I am blessed that I have people in my life today who do that for me and encourage me to do it for myself. So if the hard lessons of the past week have taught me anything at all this is what I take away from things tonight. I am grateful for the lesson and I have learned the kind of people it may be best for me to detach from and not allow to get close enough again to keep hurting me.