Its been a while since my last blog and I have a good reason for this. Visitors from interstate ( my mother and niece), a party for the New Year and Orthodox Christmas celebrations for which I did all the preparation and cooking. In between, doing my everyday mother duties and drinking my Green Smoothies which I might add is improving my skin ten fold!!
Most people are well on their way to either breaking resolutions made or actually doing what they promised themselves to do.
This year I have turned a corner. As I mentioned in my last blog, the last few years my life has become different and I have noticed that certain things are different around me too. Maybe its my circumstances or maybe its change, but I have seen a shift in attitude, in friendship and in all factors of my life. But the last couple of weeks have forced me to really sit down and think about my priorities.
I once had a friend (who is no longer with us) say to me that I should never ever compromise on who I am to make other people happy. That in the end it would be me who would not be happy. He would say to me stay true to yourself, be that wonderful, crazy person you are!! I often think of him and miss having him here to bring me up when I feeling down or just to slap me into place with his honesty. I'm finding that honesty is not everyone's best quality. All of a sudden you find yourself in a situation where you think to yourself, I did not see this coming or you don't understand when someone just turns their back on you. You ask why and get no response. To me that is cowardice and this is why I have turned a corner. I'm done trying to figure out what the problem is and asking questions that never get answered. Not everyone appreciates confrontation and getting things out in the open. Some people just don't care, not enough to fix things or to work it out.
I am no longer going to apologize for who I am. This I covered in my last blog as well but I can see a pattern already arising and its only been a couple of weeks and yet again the bad habits are forming!! But no more I'm putting a stop to it!
This year is the beginning of the new ME! ( Yes I know New Year, New Me...but I will stick to it this time)
I've already begun slowly incorporating healthy alternatives to eating. Next, I will be allocating time to exercise and will do my Yoga classes again. I have continued reading novels, but this time I will also be reading books on self improvement. I have already purchased a book on Healthy Eating and have learnt quite a few things about food I didn't know previously. Sometimes a bit of help goes a long way. I will take my children out more and I will find time to have better conversations with friends who really are just that...friends.
Hopefully by the time 2015 arrives, I will be in a whole new wonderful place with a different mindset and a calmer interior.
Its amazing how a few run of events can really shake you up and change your outlook. I think January is one of those months where you are still cleansing yourself from last years negatives and slowly but surely things start moving in the direction you were originally headed. Its a bit like my dear friend up there in heaven visiting me and saying: Now what did I tell you all those years ago...? Why are you not listening to me! Come on get on with it...he he
I have to smile, some people just never leave you no matter where they have gone and you carry the echo's of their words with you, even if for a while they have been dormant.
You may have noticed that along with everything else, I have changed the layout of my blog. I decided that I needed a softer look for this year, but I still couldn't part with my froggy. Let me know if you like my choice or if you miss my 'brash and bold red, out there come and get me design'..hehe
I leave you today with another one of my favourite quotes which sums up my circumstances. Hope your all enjoying the first month of the New Year and that your resolutions are in full swing!
“To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent
persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest
citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate
beauty; to find the best in others; to give of one’s self; to leave the
world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a
redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm
and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived—this is to have succeeded.”
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