From a young age, we are bombarded with the question “What do you want to be when you grow up?” The older we get, the more mature and serious the question becomes. “What do you want to do with your life?” people begin to ask. As we navigate our emergence from adolescence, we are simultaneously […]
Tag: happiness
Let their hearts be soft
We have for so long lived with the widely accepted idea that in order to survive in this cruel, unfair world, we must work to harden ourselves. That in order to persevere through the pain we will inevitably feel, we must find ways to build up our own armor, our own self-constructed shields. That we […]
Manifesting confidence
T O B E C O M E M O R E C O N F I D A N T I N S P E A K I NG M Y M I N D If I had to choose my most important goal for 2018, that is it. Like most introverts, I often […]
2017: year of growth
2017 has been, simultaneously, one of the best and worst years of my life. I have not had many words this year to describe all of my many feelings. While I have continued to write and share, there are so many more thoughts bottled up, compiling in my head, that I cannot seem to get […]
Finding the light
Each time she fell back into that hole, it seemed to get just a little bit darker. Each time, feeling as though more and more of herself was being taken away. And just as she learned how to fight off the debilitating darkness, just as she began to see the light again, the darkness would […]
Seasons
I felt the seasons start to change today. From warm to cold, from sun to clouds. I stepped outside to find leaves crunched beneath my feet. And I thought, how magnificent it is that the world knows just when to go from blue to grey, from green to orange. And that despite our human efforts […]
Be there
When you find yourself in a place of light, know that you are allowed to be there, to feel happiness. But don’t forget to cherish that feeling and to bottle it up for when darkness hits. Because light and dark come and go, in their own beauty, with their own purpose. Each teaching us to […]
More
Is there meant to be more to life than this? I’ve always burdened myself with the thought that my purpose should be to serve others… But each day a new challenge appears, a new endeavor fails, and the problems consume me. I keep looking at the bigger picture thinking, somewhere here I’ll make a difference. […]
The Weight of the World
The weight of the world was never meant to be carried on your shoulders alone. Even though you are strong enough to weather its toughest storms, this burden is to be shared. Because even the strongest of us will falter at times and in our failures, learn that we too need to be carried. And […]
My wish
My wish, for you… that you may experience the indescribable beauty that is pure happiness. The debilitating kind of happiness that stops you in your tracks and sends a shiver up your spine and makes all the pain and sadness and fear dissapear if only for a fleeting moment.
Evan Petschke 