Is it 'People Pleasing'?

Ok, so there is this thing about me that I hate…I take things so personal sometimes. I take things to heart, so much that it hurts my insides…do you know what I’m talking about???

…anyway, the thing about that is, I hate that I feel like that. It’s like I have no control over how people respond to me, or treat me, so most of the time, I take their frustrations or confusion, and point the blame at myself because I don’t want them to be upset…

…I don’t want them to feel pain, sorrow or uncertainty, so it’s like this innate thing inside me that says, ‘feel it for them’.

Now I don’t know if you would consider that a ‘People Pleaser’, which can be such a harsh label that people throw around, but I do wish to work on this attribute that I so wish I did NOT have…

People…beautiful, yet so amazingly uncertain…

A REAL Change

I often think about the idea of change. I think it’s something that we all want, yet we’re so hesitant to reach out for it … we resist it almost because we are afraid of what is on the other side of it …

There are so many opportunities that are right in front of us, if we only knew how to ‘touch them’ … as we walk and wonder … as we reach and wish … what is it that keeps us never reaching out for more? What is it inside of us that resists an open door to something new? What is it for you? Do you resist change? Why?

For me … I think it’s failure … a little fear perhaps … not knowing what to expect, I suppose … yet I’m profoundly amazed by the idea of ‘change’ … in MANY different capacities … I often think that triumph and change can be intertwined together … because after all, change can bring out the BEST in us … and ultimately, it can send us on a path of discovery … ‘change’ can help us overcome something that we never thought was possible to conquer … have you found this to be true for you?

As this life continues to race at an ever so rapid pace … I’ve found that life matters most when we choose to accept the changes that come with it … we can choose to embrace them … or resist them, and simply, stay the same … yet the opportunities that exist, if we choose to see them, can open up a door of endless possibilities …

I read this quote the other day … “We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations”. Sure, impossible they might seem at first, but glaring at them … head on … will only make them what they were always meant to become … REAL! And from that ... 'change' is ONLY the beginning ...