Dimming City Lights

From the time we are born into this world, the sand started trickling out of our own hourglasses. Honestly, it is what we as people make of this life to determine where the path leads us. It is the obstacles within in life that what teaches us how to develop character, strength, and a voice of experience. There is only a brief moment in time we are protected our parents before we have to learn to stand up on our two feet.

Usually that standing up on two feet requires to swallow our pride, do things that we as individuals may not want to do, endure circumstances that we honestly wish could exist in someone else's life than our own, keep persistently fighting the good fight without allowing the demons within to stop us, see our lives as it is, and developing plans to overcome all odds that wage between us along with the world.

Oh, How easy it is to allow the demons within us to control us. Thoughts embedded over years from individuals that always made us feel that we didn't measure up to expectation. Recorded tapes that play over and over in the moment of failure or uncertainty. Tapes that shake our usual unwavering perseverance down to the core and confidence dimming as slowly burning out city lights.

Bottom line.. Once the city lights burn out.. We just have to remember we have a small flashlight in our pockets. In moments like that, we are our own advocacy. We are the only ones to know that that flashlight is there and how to turn it on.