Keep on

Life is a journey of discovery. If you aren't learning, then you aren't growing, and if you aren't growing, you aren't living.

Life teaches you lessons- some very tough lessons. Sometimes, to wake you up and cause you to grow, life will kick you where it hurts and tell you to get uncomfortable.

Sometimes you have to lose in order to gain.

You lose the ones you love; you lose your belongings; you lose yourself.

Then, you have a choice. There’s always a choice.

You can choose to give up. You can choose to give in and allow life to fail you in the only test that you have ever taken that truly matters.

Or, you can choose to learn; grow; adapt; change. You can become stronger and take the lessons for what they are- stepping stones. No one else can learn your lessons for you.

Not everyone will have the strength; the will;

the persistence to rise above.

And to the ones that choose enlightenment over complacency; you are on a path of healing; of growth; of wonder. Remain steadfast and do not turn around! For you don’t want to miss what’s yet to be.

©S.J.Reed