Just some thoughts.
Well today was one of alot of thinking. I was walking earlier today, when i turned into this little clearing in my neighborhood. I was walking around enjoying the beautiful day when something caught my eye. In between two big rocks at the edge the hill before the creek started was a little daisy. Simple in itself but completely beautiful under the circumstances. It got me thinking about how...in life...things all around us can seem so huge, so massive and so much bigger and better than us. Just as these rocks were in comparison to the daisy. But no matter the size of our problems, or our stress no matter the shadows these things can cast on our lives we have the strength to be completely beautiful. Life can be overwhelming, and the walls that surround us sometimes can seem unbearable but in the end if you stay strong, if you hold out and keep on being who you are knowing that that is the most important you can in the end over power the problems in your life. When i looked down i did not first see the rocks or roots that surround the daisy, i simply saw the daisy in all its simple beauty. That brought me also to think of the recent storms we have been having, how could a little daisy even still be alive in this cold?....mind you i figure by the looks of it, it was on its way out but never the less it was still there. This daisy had survived storms and was still there to make me smile on a simple afternoon walk. Now it got me thinking also of my own life...of all the things i struggle with, of all the stress, of all the "storms" that i have and have yet to face. And in that moment sitting looking at this little dying flower, i realized that it is not the problems in life.....its not the walls that are put up around you...its not the rocks that seem to be soo much bigger than you that matter. It is simply that you hold on...through all the storms, through all the times when you feel small and worthless, so that maybe in your exsistance you can be there to make someone smile. In the end these things make us who we are, these problems that we are faced with these things that i once felt and saw in my own life, these things i thought were put there to hold me down, i am now realizing are the things that help me fly. Everything in life takes perservearance. Sometimes you have to fall before you fly, but in the end its the falls that make you appreciate the flight.
-abey<3