For as long as necessary...

Often we are so consumed with our own lives that we forget the little things. To reconnect with that friend you haven’t seen in a while. To give back to the community even in the smallest form. To do your duty, whatever that may be, proudly. And to remain loyal to who we are and what we strive to be.

It is so easy to forget that when lines are drawn in the sand that things weren’t always this way. On both sides there is heartbreak, betrayal and anger and neither is the enemy. Those on the sidelines, especially those closest, will choose to stand with one or the other not because they want to but because they choose to stand by what they think is right. And if things are allowed to persist, with no closure to be had, then I’m afraid of what is next. Things will never be the same as they once were but that doesn’t mean things have to change. But it is not my fight and the only thing I can do is lend my support to those who will listen and hope.

“Anger can revert to joy and sadness to delight but a nation destroyed cannot be brought back to existence nor what is dead brought back to life.”

Let those tears that fall

give birth to hope in a

better tomorrow

“Crying is all right in its own way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.”
― C.S. Lewis

It is so easy to forget that a life lived for others often means we forget about ourselves. Can one truly be happy if we rise and fall with the ever changing events of the lives that we live? Happiness, the satisfaction of being okay with who you are, cannot be found in others but only through understanding of the self. It cannot be dependent on the things you own or the people you know. While these things certainly help they can be fleeting. So while you may rely upon your friends and take comfort in familiar objects it depends on you to find your own happiness. That, unfortunately, is a journey all on its own for which the only guide you have is you. I hope that you find that happiness you so deserve in the end.

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

~For as long as necessary

we forget the things that divide us.

we realize just how fortunate we our for the lives we live.

we recognize that nothing worth fighting for is easy.

we can aspire to be greater than ourselves.

we recall those special few who changed everything.

we understand that everything changes and nothing is ever the same.

we remember that there is always a reason to hope.

~For as long as necessary