There is no spoon...

Gratitude, appreciation, giving thanks. No matter what words you use it all means the same thing. Happy. We’re supposed to be happy. Grateful for friends, family. Happy just to be alive. Whether we like it or not.

Maybe gratitude has nothing to do with joy. Maybe being grateful is recognizing what you have for what it is. Appreciate small victories. Admiring the struggle it takes simply to be human. Maybe we’re thankful for the familiar things we know. And maybe we’re thankful for things we’ll never know.

At the end of the day, the fact that we have the courage to still be standing … is reason enough to celebrate...

Farewell my pet...

In life, only one thing is certain, no matter how hard you try, no matter how good your intentions, you are going to make mistakes. You're going to hurt people. You're going to get hurt. And if you ever want to recover, there's really only one thing you can say... Forgive and forget. That's what they say...

It's good advice, but it's not very practical. When someone hurts us, we want to hurt them back. When someone wrongs us, we want to be right. Without forgiveness, old scores are never settled, old wounds never heal. And the most we can hope for is that one day we'll be lucky enough to forget...

Powerless...

There are a lot of things I want to change. Be it myself or the world around me. If anything is true it is this: change comes with a need not a desire. You can wish for something to happen a million times a day, yet wanting something to change isn't enough. I may want to be a better person, but why? There's no need for me to be...

I may want to change the way people perceive me through their senses, yet is there an actual need for it?

So now the question remains... How do we translate that "desire" into "need"? Only one way has been revealed to me so far, and that is to simply to let yourself hit rock bottom... It is from there that everyone "needs" to get up, get away and transform what was previously their wish into something they can't live without... A need...