Reflection

It's February, almost March...where have the past 2 months gone already? When you're told 'don't wish your life away' growing up you just shrug it off as another comment made by yet another adult. It's only when you are 'yet another adult' that you realise you in fact, have wished your life away and now that you have a 9-5 job, working 5 days of every week and a fair amount of responsibilities, you're no longer wishing your life away and instead, are wishing each day would be 24 hours longer. It's a shame that isn't the way the world works, right?

I started 2019 thinking this would be 'my year' along with the rest of us (how cliché) and I still do believe it could be. It's all in your mind - if you believe you can do it, you really can. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow but eventually you will achieve what you want to. I've had set backs already this year (just a month and a half in) and thought my world was going to fall apart but here I am, still kicking. It wasn't easy, of course - but then again, in life - what is?

My point is, people will put you down, knock you and make you want to quit no matter how old you are and no matter what it is that you're doing. The only person that will always be your biggest supporter, is you and you have to make the conscious decision to be that. It's hard, don't get me wrong - when you start to think that what they say is true or make you feel like you are failing but you're not, if you made it this far you can keep going. You had the strength in you to start so you have the strength in you to finish.

'Life is too short' is a phrase commonly used in our vocabulary and I think, one which is just brushed off too lightly, way too often. It is, it really is - you only get one shot at it, so do what you love, be with who you want to be with and make yourself happy. This world needs more self love and self care.