People come and go through your life and sometimes they become great friends, some become family and others move on. Life is not always simple but the people you surround yourself with are the people that you become like and you emulate whether you want to or not.
I have not always been the person that I am now. No one starts out as the person they become because we all have to evolve and over come obstacles in our lives. I consider myself to be a good person. I am fun to be around or so I am told. I love people and I enjoy others company. I like to give more than to receive and I live to make others around me happy.
I have come a long way from where I was 10 years ago. I am not even sure I would have liked me then if I had met myself now. But like I said we all evolve and overcome.
I have finally learned to like myself in the past couple of years. I honestly think that is where a person must start to learn how to become the person he/she wants to be. It has not been easy to learn to like myself. I have never been as confident or as outgoing as I think now that I should have been. But I know now that it doesn't take beauty or smarts or money to make you who you are. It takes love of life and being happy where you are and with what you have.
When I was growing up my parents insisted that my sister and I were at church twice on Sunday and once on Wednesday night. Although I rebelled and did not think that this was very important at the time I feel like I finally know and understand why my parents wanted my sister and I at church every week. It wasn't just to learn the "Golden Rule" or to learn about all of the books of the Bible or to hear sermons about Jesus walking on Water, although these are very important lessons, it was the influences of the people that we went to church with. It was the teachers, the elders, the deacons, the preacher, and all of the Godly people that helped to guide us. And, now, looking back it was not a lesson that was taught in a classroom or from a pulpit it was just watching the way the members of our church treated each other and how they lived their lives. I know now that all of the people that I came into contact with while I was growing up in the church have had definite impacts on how I now want to live my life and how I want to treat others.
I may never become the President of the United States or a multimillionaire but I know that I will leave a mark on someone's life because of the lessons I have learned and because of the obstacles I have overcome. I know God has a plan for me and I am now on a mission to do whatever he has planned. Someone once told me that when you tell God your plans He laughs because He has your true plan and you must listen and follow him in order to find the path He wants you to take.
So I have started on a journey to find the path that God wants me to follow and I hope to share my lessons and my obstacles with you and I pray that my journey might help you. Whether through inspiration or just a good laugh I hope you will join me and see where my path leads.
I have not always been the person that I am now. No one starts out as the person they become because we all have to evolve and over come obstacles in our lives. I consider myself to be a good person. I am fun to be around or so I am told. I love people and I enjoy others company. I like to give more than to receive and I live to make others around me happy.
I have come a long way from where I was 10 years ago. I am not even sure I would have liked me then if I had met myself now. But like I said we all evolve and overcome.
I have finally learned to like myself in the past couple of years. I honestly think that is where a person must start to learn how to become the person he/she wants to be. It has not been easy to learn to like myself. I have never been as confident or as outgoing as I think now that I should have been. But I know now that it doesn't take beauty or smarts or money to make you who you are. It takes love of life and being happy where you are and with what you have.
When I was growing up my parents insisted that my sister and I were at church twice on Sunday and once on Wednesday night. Although I rebelled and did not think that this was very important at the time I feel like I finally know and understand why my parents wanted my sister and I at church every week. It wasn't just to learn the "Golden Rule" or to learn about all of the books of the Bible or to hear sermons about Jesus walking on Water, although these are very important lessons, it was the influences of the people that we went to church with. It was the teachers, the elders, the deacons, the preacher, and all of the Godly people that helped to guide us. And, now, looking back it was not a lesson that was taught in a classroom or from a pulpit it was just watching the way the members of our church treated each other and how they lived their lives. I know now that all of the people that I came into contact with while I was growing up in the church have had definite impacts on how I now want to live my life and how I want to treat others.
I may never become the President of the United States or a multimillionaire but I know that I will leave a mark on someone's life because of the lessons I have learned and because of the obstacles I have overcome. I know God has a plan for me and I am now on a mission to do whatever he has planned. Someone once told me that when you tell God your plans He laughs because He has your true plan and you must listen and follow him in order to find the path He wants you to take.
So I have started on a journey to find the path that God wants me to follow and I hope to share my lessons and my obstacles with you and I pray that my journey might help you. Whether through inspiration or just a good laugh I hope you will join me and see where my path leads.
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