Don’t hate your flaws,
Love the good qualities that you possess.
Don’t fight your enemies,
Understand them and accept your differences.
Don’t back away from possibilities,
Attack them head on with confidence that they will work out to your benefit.
I have been challenged to write a song, about the past month of my life, and everything I feel is going on. I have skeptically accepted this challenge.
Please note, that the request was to make the song angry.. Shouldn’t be too hard. Let’s see. I love a good challenge.
You are always going to run into awkward situations that make you extremely uncomfortable, it’s what teaches you to adjust and accommodate to change. Without these unconventional encounters, we, as people, would become too used to getting whatever we wanted, that when something went wrong, we would be helpless to do anything aside from grieve and wallow in self pity. Life changes all the time; styles change every season, small towns evolve into busy cities, people jump from career to career and change their appearances without a second thought. More globally; cultures change in every country, languages and beliefs are diverse all over the world, and lifestyles alter between households. Peoples perspectives on life change and flourish with every hardship they suffer through and every lesson they learn from teachers or family members. Change allows us to adapt, as long as you stay the person you want to be, you should never fear change.
Not to be pessimistic, but not everything in your life is going to work out the way you want it to. Some day, something will be more resilient than you intended and you will be clueless as to how to proceed, it will stump you, leave you confused and shaken, but you will come out a much better person because of it. Every failure in life opens up the opportunity to learn; about yourself, another person or even the way society works. Never be afraid to leap into the unknown, just be assured that on the other side, there is not always going to be a silver lining. As long as you benefit from the struggle, it was worth experiencing.
Could you have been more noticeable?
Sometimes, when you live through something tragic, and life altering, you evolve as a person and become more independent or more mature. But there is always the possibility of the opposite effect; immaturity… striving for the childhood that was taken from you. No matter what the event was, there are always repercussions and side effects. Everyone reacts differently to trauma, therefore nobody can set up expectations on how you will handle the stress of the aftermath.
This is the point in which, you come to realize what happened and how you behaved throughout the experience. This is the most important stepping stone through the process because it will affect who you become and how you grow as a person. This is the step from which insecurities blossom, where rock-solid strength and breakdowns become part of one’s life. Whether you realize it or not, big events in life alter your persona, your behaviour, your being entirely. You don’t necessarily get to choose what changes are made, they just happen in your sub-conscience, but it’s how you learn to deal and live with these insecurities and flaws that change who you become.
Acceptance of one’s life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices. - Paul Tournier
It is out of line when someone judges you for whom you have become, because they can never fully understand what you have gone through to become who you are today. There are a vast few people that really know me for me, and I trust that they would never judge me for my insecurities because they have grown up along side me and have watched me evolve as a person. In all fairness, that’s all you can really ask of a person, to understand that things changed you, that you’re only human, and that you search for their love and acceptance.
