Lifelong Lessons

Lifelong lesson sometimes comes at a hefty price for a lot of people, and it is sad that for those individuals there is no do over or second chance, but this blog post is for those of us who are in a position of self-evaluation regarding our current life status

See I have come to learn that life itself is a great teacher with a PHD in truth and hard facts, having little to no time for fictional realities, because in each one of our lives going back as far as we can remember we have all had to make choices pick paths and make critical decisions

By some degree this can easily be viewed as a textbook definition of true character building, you know the stuff they say heroes are champions are made of, Lol. Well needless to say I never reached champion or hero status nor have I ever wanted to, and just like so many of you I failed to learn the lesson that life was attempting to teach and I just found it easier to blow it off or find some other forms of coping skills, that would allow me to not have to deal with the lesson directly which in return cost me opportunities to make better life choices for myself regardless of whatever my current status was or may have been.

As we all know life waits for no man or woman for that matter so surely I am not exempt from the laws of life lessons, and It is safe to say that since I am amongst the living these lesson will continue to come in and out of my life in and out of season. So I,ve decided that I would refer to them as lifes expectation, I can expect to be hurt, Lied on and Lied to, cheated on and cheated out of, played for a fool or been a fool, used and abused, forgotten and neglected, loved and hated, broke and poor, scared and afraid, confused and frustrated, alone and lonely, useless and worthless, failed and unaccomplished, depressed and stressed, stupid and dumb and let us not forget to include society's expectations of how to love and who to love, who is beautiful and who is not, what is fair and what is unfair, what is appropriate and what is inappropriate, who is normal or abnormal, and on and on.

Now I do not know exactly when or how, but one day or maybe it was one night, a shift happened in my life and I no longer just wanted to cope with, work around or ignore my lifelong lessons, but instead I wanted to truly learn from them and their purpose in my life. Instead of holding on to heavy baggage that was weighing me down I would address it head on right then and there so that I could release it shortly thereafter. I don’t know if the person reading this has an inner voice that speaks to them, but I do, and my inner voice that would have normally told me to forget about it and just move on, was the same inner voice that now invites the lessons into my house, pour it a glass of wine and force me to sit down and work through whatever lessons life was teaching me at that moment. I will admit that in the beginning the lessons were not always crystal clear, so a lot of times I would just have to wait for time to reveal what the true lesson of that event was.

However, a lot of lifelong lessons are revealed to you right away which grants you the opportunity to learn from them, gain knowledgeable growth, and most of all acknowledge and respect their purpose in your life so that you can profoundly move on to live a more peaceful and truthful life. In closing remember that life is truth and truth is the light!

Cynthia Conner

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