The Universe Resides Within YOU.

It is interesting how we as human beings, the most "complex" beings on earth are continuously looking for the meaning of life.  We seek answers to: how to be happy, how to love yourself, how to.... Google it, how to ______ and you will find zillions of blogs, articles, studies all generated towards helping you find answers.  However, when it comes to understanding how to be happy or how to love yourself, well that is dependent on several variables.  Bottom line, you will fall many times over and the good news is that as you become wiser and more self aware, you will become stronger and those falls, while still painful, you will become more resilient and getting the fuck back up becomes instinctual.

  I like to think that starting with practicing how to be grateful is a good stepping stone towards learning to love yourself and learning how to be happy without depending on someone else for it.  

Be grateful for the air that fills your lungs, be grateful for the fact that even though you may feel pain, you are alive.  Be grateful that the pain will transform you and you will evolve. Understand that you might not be accepting of the pain at first because you are in the middle of an emotional shit storm, but that will pass and there is a light at the end of that shit storm.  Trust and have faith in yourself. Also be grateful for those quiet moments in life. There's nothing more liberating than owning who you are and speaking your truth without fear of persecution.   After all, this is your life.  Live it according to your own damn rules and fuck what society thinks.  

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us. Josephine Baker