Tag: motivation

Learning To Celebrate Our Victories

We never smelled the roses because we were thinking of all the seeds left to plant.

Whether songs, ideas, or love, those things we keep bottled up for fear of rejection are bottled up for a reason.

You found something special in your soul that they might still be searching for in themselves.

In my head, I was forever 21 and reaching middle age just didn’t seem to fit with my persona.

I refuse to leave him sitting in the living room.

Getting hurt is easy, not letting it change who you are isn’t.

In that hospital bed, the question of whether I would do anything for my kids was real.

We’re not supposed to talk about these moments. We’re supposed to pretend they don’t happen and hide them behind our shiny social media accounts.

No one has to validate your happiness. You just have to feel it.

I thought about what it would be like to go back and tell myself in 2011 all that was about to happen.