today is my birthday. which means...a new beginning. i love new beginnings. very much so. i have a list of dreams and aspirations for myself that i hope to come to life at some point during this new year of mine. but the main one is...
this year i'm going to live.
...i'm not going to just dream and aspire. i'm going to actually...do something...about it. i'm not going to spend my nights in my bedroom from nine till twelve just laying down on my floor, staring at the ceiling, crying to myself about what a little imbecile i am and how i can never do anything up to anyone's standards or how i hate myself and wish i would just fade away. no. that is not going to happen again. if i don't like me, my life and all that, i'm not going to just whine and dream of something better. i'm going to dream of something better and go do.
creativity. imagination. aspirations. uniqueness. perseverance.
this year i'm going to be myself.
this year i'm going to work hard.
this year i'm going to live life and not just...survive.
this year i'm going to make my dreams come true...or at least give it my best shot.
this year i'm going to have the best year of my life yet.
"life begins at the end of your comfort zone." - Neale Donald Walsch
and this year, i'm going to walk straight out of my comfort zone and live life to the fullest.
i am not just going to say "i strive to be a star shining brightly amongst the dark sky of this world". because up until now, i have lied. sure i've wished i was, but i haven't actually strived. striving means you do something towards it. you don't just say and hope that one day you'll grow up a bit and just maybe you might achieve your goal. when you strive, you do. even if it's just a little tiny step everyday.
so this year, i am going to put my dreams and aspirations into action. and go do. this year i'm going to live.
-willow xx
Congratulations, and may God bless your efforts. In this next year of your life I pray that you will be able to grow. Not only in hight, in fact, that is the one way that is of least importance. But instead spiritually. I pray that in this new year of your life, through the hardships that will surly come, that you would grow closer to the God of the universe, your God, because he is a personal God and wants to be close to you. I pray that through what you go through this year, the circumstances that you find yourself in, the ones that you make for yourself, and the ones that you walk into to help someone else, that you would be able to grow, that you would be able to become stronger, and that later in your life you can look back and see that it was not in vain that you suffered.
ReplyDeleteWillow you have blessed me more than you can know, and I pray that God would bless you in return. Happy birthday. And I know, this time I am five days late. At least it isn't five years though. That would be sad indeed.