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Friday Feelings 4/10/20
Today I feel grounded. Yesterday I felt chaos, and the day before that I was an emotional wreck.
These days I’m allowing my emotions to run through me rather than fight them. Processing emotions is still relatively new for me, but it has been my new way of life. For the first time, I can look at the man in the mirror and not be shameful of what I see.
I never thought that a stubborn jarhead like me would be writing about tough transitions in life through vulnerability and transparency. I had to go through a series of life changes to get here today. Each one reminds me that life is earned, never given.
GK Chesterton, one of the most prolific writers from the twentieth century, wrote: “Until we realize that things might not be, we cannot realize that things are”
This is a quote I’ve been thinking a lot about lately as we all are forced to see that when we think we have life all figured out, we know very little at all.
So here I am, re-writing my story because I have found passion and purpose bleeding from my gardens of wounds. Those wounds were covered by a man who was dependent on other people’s opinions, judgments, and perceptions.
The difference between me today and yesterday, is I understand that everything in life can be taken away in the blink of an eye. And that is…
