Revelation #1: Be healthy!
This has been a priority for awhile, but now it's in motion. My inspiration? My dear friend, Nora. Lauren Conrad's adorable clothes collection at Kohl's (If you know me, you know I don't pay attention to that kind of thing, so this is a big deal). And finally, me, myself, and my future. I am receiving so much love and support from friends and family, and for that I am so grateful. Please feel free to provide me with a plethora of any fit and healthy knowledge you might have!
Revelation #2: Be creative!
I am rediscovering my love for several things: the piano, art, and writing. One goal is to play the piano for at least an hour and half a day (while it's summer). Another goal is to learn how to paint, and lastly, write. Not many people know this about me, but I love to write. Stories, songs, poems, whatever. I love writing. It doesn't show in the blog, but it's true. I've been working on a children's book, and I really want to finish it this summer if I can.
Revelation #3: It's OK.
I am OK. Where I'm at in life, what I'm doing with my life...it's OK. In fact, it's more than OK. It's great! And I need to be OK with great. :)
Revelation #4: God and Jesus Christ live and love me.
Now granted, I've always known this. Sometimes I forget or doubt clouds my mind, but I DO know this. And this week I was reminded of it several times. They live and love me, and I am forever grateful for this knowledge.
Revelation #5: Be Better.
It's OK to be good, but we can always be better. Now, I'm not talking about perfection. However, I've realized there are some things in life I need to be better at. A better friend, daughter, sister, teacher, roommate, example, etc. The list goes on! I know not all of this will happen over night. Many things on my list both mentioned and non-mentioned will take time. Maybe even a whole life time! But I should not be complacent with good. I need to be striving to be the best I can be.
Revelation #6: Get To Know Yourself and Love Yourself
If anything and to sum up everything, I need to get to know myself and learn to love myself. It is OK that it's just me, myself, and I right now. Enjoy it, embrace it, love it. Learn from it. I need to use this time to discover and rediscover passions, talents, strengths, weaknesses, faults, failings, successes, and learn to love myself for them. I need to find the good things about me and enhance them. I need to find the not-so-good things about me and change them. Again, I'm not talking about perfection. I'm talking about self-rediscovery and self-betterment.
Now as a part of that, something I have briefly eluded to in this post and in an earlier post from Nov. 2012 (Thoughts of an Eternal Optimist), being OK with just me. I will always have that hope, I will always have that faith, and I will always have that optimism. But I'm going to take some license to focus on me. Not in a selfish way, but to take some things on the forefront of my mind and reorganize. It's OK to be on my own right now. I want to be my own best friend for a little while and not constantly worry about finding and looking for one outside of myself. Anne Shirley also said, "I went looking for my dreams outside of myself and discovered it's not what the world holds for you; it's what you bring to it." So I've decided to focus on getting to know myself better, trying everyday to be better than I was the day before, loving me for exactly who I am (changes or no changes), and bring that to the world. I believe that if I truly and wholeheartedly act on each of these thoughts and ponderings, when all is said and done, I will be a happier person for it. A better person. A more complete person. So here's to finding joy in the journey. Possibly a very LONG journey, but a joyful one, nonetheless.
