Sometimes It’s Hard To Stay Positive

Stay positive they say as if everything is going well. It’s easy to be positive when things are going right. When your bills are paid. Other times, it can be really, really hard. As in extremely hard to stay positive. Especially when you are doing all the “right” things and life just seems to get harder and harder.

Like it is challenging you to breath. As if it wants to play cat and mouse. But you don’t want to. Yet, you have no choice. You must play. And you are the mouse. And the cat changes. Sometimes that cat is a feeling, finances, or people. Leaving you wondering where is base? Where is your safety? When did the ground turn to lava and how did this damn cat come out of no where?

Sometimes it feels like my young age is getting stolen from me. Not by age, but by not being able to do the things I thought I would be doing by now. That I am supposed to be doing and giving more than I am. But I am stuck. Stuck in this fish bowl watching the world spin around me.

I am not sure which route to take to get out. As soon as I start to climb, something grabs on to my leg and pulls me down with all it’s might. I keep climbing though. Different paths. I won’t be found at the bottom of this fish bowl. Doing my part in living my life. I can’t just exist. I must live.

Keep Your Shoes

Now, I don’t believe you have to walk in someone else’s shoes to understand their pain. We all have pain. As Jim Rohn used to say “it rains on the rich,” meaning we all experience some crap in this life. You know what pain feels like. I know what pain feels like. No one is exempt from pain. So I use that knowledge to spread love. The world does not need any more pain. But we all could use more love.

It is that thought, we could all use more love, that lifts my spirits. I can do that. I am a doer and I do things to the best of my ability. And if giving love is something that is needed, I will take that challenge. Even if it doesn’t pay the bills.  It makes being positive seem really, really easy again. As if life is encouraging me to breath. Spreading love fills my heart and soul. And it in the end, all I am left with is my soul.

Stay Positive

Maybe I can after all.

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