Forever Friends

Today I observed a prime example of friendship: two 6 year old boys- fighting. They were angry and frustrated at each other- annoyed that they weren't in agreement. They fought for around 20 minutes, and then they started kicking a ball around. How is it possible that their fight could so easily end?

Many times in friendships we fight. And many times we forgive and become friends again. Sometimes we promise that we will never, ever talk to each other again, we say "I hate you" to each other; but we secretly know, deep in our hearts, that those fierce promises will definitely be broken. We know that we will always be friends- not because we look alike, not because we live in the same town, not because we're both rich, not because we like the same things, but because we are tied together at the heart and because we have a special friendship that time and space cannot destroy.

I believe that true friends are those that can be together after years of not seeing each other and still be able to hang out like normal, friends are those that we never lose because they live in our hearts, they are the people that we can fight with and the people that we can promise never to talk to and then break those promises freely and fearlessly. True friends are made in the heart and are tied together at heart- because true friendship is when time, distance, victory, loss, money or health don't matter, because true friends are made in the heart.

Like Water on a Ducks Back...

The world is full of negative people- people that put you down, people that tell you you're worthless, people that say you can't succeed, people that let you know that they want to see you fail. We've all heard the phrase 'let it slide like water on a duck's back', but if you're anything like me, you would have never paid heed to this powerful statement.

Often in life we stop doing something that we love or are incredibly talented at, because somebody tells us that we can't succeed. Somebody plants a seed of negativity into us, and we let it grow instead of letting it slide like water on a duck's back. We need to somehow develop this ability to let negativity slide off us and let encouragement and positivity soak into us.

What if we all grew a shield to negativity and stopped allowing negative comments to enter our lives, what if we let it slide like water on a duck's back and didn't stop doing what we loved because of something that someone said? If we did that, we would have a strong, confident culture. We wouldn't have people that were unsuccessful because somebody said they couldn't do it. We would be successful, we would be everything we wanted to be. We would be positive people.

So be a duck and let it slide; because if something doesn't build you up, it's not worth letting into your life- because you are worth more than what someone thinks.

When the going gets tough...

'When the going gets tough, the tough get going' it says. Sometimes, life knocks us down, pulls us apart and beats us up. We fall and we can't seem to get back up again.

Life has a way of overwhelming us. It makes things tough for us, makes us hurt, cry, break and grieve. It gives us hard decisions to make, it seems to complicate things and stress us out- as if we aren't stressed enough.

The 'stuff' in life comes at us in waves. Sometimes it's quiet and the tides are peaceful and calm- everything is how it should be. At other times, there are raging currents, pulling us this way and that, tearing us apart, pushing us around- things are tough but we gotta keep swimming. The weird thing is that the harder we kick and the harder we try to get ourselves out of rough situations, the harder our life seems to get. We just have to keep paddling, keep a tame mind, don't stress and know that God has all things under control. 

In my opinion, I think that the hardest thing to do when you're in the middle of trouble is to let go- to give all our worries to someone bigger than us and to just trust God. Why? Because I believe that God totally controls our lives- He's got us in His hand- and somehow, in the midst of tragedy, we seem to think that it's God's fault that we're in a muck. 

So all I wanna say is keep going, keep swimming, keep paddling and just keep on keeping on...

Wishes....

So lately I've been thinking: where did the time go, where have the days gone... why is it so different now? Now that we're older, that we're more sane; smarter. Why can't we believe in angels anymore? Why can't we wish on stars, why can't we believe that wishes come true.

I always wonder when we lost the ability to believe in things like that. To make a wish, and then somehow believe that it'll come true. I used to wish on stars. I used to believe that the stars would tell God. I used to think that somehow, my wish would come true. I don't remember how it stopped. I don't remember one time when my wish didn't come true. I used to wish on stars so that someone else knew what was going on in my life too; so that someone could fix it; because I knew that I couldn't fix my situation, but maybe someone could. I don't know how I lost that faith, I don't how I managed to start thinking that no one wanted to hear about my thoughts, my feelings and my problems.

I think that this faith; the faith in people, the faith in love, the faith in peace and the faith that everything is going to be alright, is what keeps a smile on the face of a five-year old. They never doubt for a second, whether or not they'll have a friend at school today, or whether they're putting on too much weight, or whether their clothes are too unfashionable. They never doubt the fact that somebody loves them and that somebody cares for them, they put their everything into day-to-day tasks because they're never worried that their best is not good enough. they wish on stars, because they know that believing in the simple things is what keeps life from being complicated.