Overcoming

What’s Meant for Bad…Is often used to make you wiser and stronger. 

Sometimes life deals you a card that you don’t want to play. Sometimes you picked the card yourself.  Whichever way, you have to learn how to use it to your advantage anyway.  Every bad situation always has something positive about it, but you have to be willing to search for it. So it feels like your world is collapsing around your feet, look up and keep looking up until you can find a ray of hope.  There’s always hope.

When you’re going through, keep one or two positive, emotionally healthy people around you for support.  Sometimes, you just need someone who can be there to listen to you express yourself. Other times, you might need sensible advice from someone with deeper understanding and wisdom.  And one of the most important pieces of advice for you to take to heart is simply to continue in a forward motion. Don’t allow your problems to overtake your mind. Keep putting one foot in front of the other. If you stop in your tracks to wallow in self-pity, what good will that do you? That’s a time waster and energy depleter.  You have to keep moving forward, no matter what.  You can make it. Just don’t give up.  You’ve made some good decisions in your life.  Even when you initially started off on the wrong foot there have been times it turned out for your good. 

Being an unwed mother has always bothered me.  It’s not what I planned for my life or for my children.  I have to concentrate on what I’ve attempted to instill in my children.  I have to believe that they will make a difference in this world in a way that’s viewed positively overall.  I’ve laid a good foundation for them.  Of course I hope they build off of this foundation.  I have to think on the good that’s come and will come out of my ‘not so wise’ past decisions.  If you look back on your past, then don’t stay there.  Take what you can learn from it.  You have to look around the ‘Now’ and look ahead and plan for the future.  And be very optimistic.  I know it’s easier said than done sometimes.  Remember the tough times will pass.  Keep planning for your bright future.  Write it down, make it plain, review often, revise when necessary and keep it in action!