Staying Up When Things Are Down

Happy Sunday everyone!

I'm going to get kind of personal today, but I think it's needed. So, within the last I want to say 5 months or so I've been on a positivity movement with the purpose of trying to become my best self and eliminate my bad habits. Within those months I was in a relationship that I wasn't able to maintain, I dealt with the aftermath of ongoing drama, gained friends/lost friends, and now to top it off I just found out the job i've been working at since freshman year just closed down (I know right? can anything else go wrong?)

Well, to say the least, the last 5 months have been one long emotional rollercoaster. Surprisingly, after numerous breakdowns and a whole bunch of "I give up's" I realized that I was psyching myself out. I had to remind myself that with the good comes the bad and there is always light at the end of the tunnel. I think apart of the reason people just drown themselves in their issues is because we torture ourselves trying to figure out how and why things happen.

Our lives are already pre-planned by God. Things that you feel could have been prevented were not supposed to be prevented. These bad things that happen to us are supposed to build us. You have to think of the bad things as bricks to build a house. When construction is building a house there is dirt, pain, long hours, and Im sure plenty of the builders want to give up. But the building is just a process to get to a bigger picture. After all that it took to build, you look up and you have a beautiful, solid home. All of a sudden, you laugh at yourself for wanting to give up because you now know that if you did, you wouldn't be the beautiful solid person you always wanted to be.

I always see this post on social media, it says "I owe myself and apology for all the things I let slide". In this case, we owe ourselves an apology for expecting these bad things to keep us down, we owe ourselves an apology for being so humble that we feel we are incompetent or unable to have the success, the love, or the happiness we deserve. And to be quite frank, we owe ourselves an apology for doubting ourselves so bad that we let opportunities pass by, or that girl or boy go, or we didn't apply for that job, or go to that event. We owe ourselves an apology for any negativity that we have placed on ourselves. It's all about staying up when things are down because no one can uplift you more than yourself. You have to believe in yourself more than anyone else and learn how to block things that are there with the sole purpose to keep you down!

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