Lessons on life

I've been doing some thinking lately.  Call it soul searching, call it hormones.  Maybe it's the Lenten season, maybe it's Spring cleaning.  Call it what you will.  I've been feeling a struggle inside of me and I need to do something about it.  So here's what I'm choosing to do.

I'm choosing happiness instead of hurt.  I'm choosing forgiveness instead of bitterness.  I'm choosing prayer instead of sorrow.  I'm choosing friendship instead of ambivalence.  I'm choosing faith instead of fear.  I'm choosing hope instead of worry.  I'm choosing empathy instead of ignorance.  I'm choosing simplicity instead of chaos.  I'm choosing patience instead of haste.  I'm choosing acceptance instead of judgement.  I'm choosing love instead of indifference.

I've realized that I can choose to let little things bother me, I can choose to let people tell me who I am and what I'm not...or I can choose not to!  I can live by the rules that I set for myself, even if others choose not to...and as long as those rules are true and good, then I can lay my head down every night knowing I did the best I could.  I can forgive, even if I'm not ready to.  I can love, even if I don't get love back.  I can hope for things that may never happen.  And I can also let go of things that I'm ready to move on from.  Because...well, it's my choice. ♥