Shine and the World Shines With You
I SHOULDN'T FEEL THAT WAY. I mean the way expressed in the headline for this post.
At least that's what people tell me who know a thing or two about the trials and challenges I have faced.
But what's the good of coming out the other side of really bad experiences if you're going to live like you did not actually come out the other side?
Shining is not about being an idealist in the negative sense that the word is usually applied.
Having high, clear, reasonable, productive ideals is not the same as being unrealistic. Having faith and hope is not the same as being starry-eyed or silly.
Balancing intact
Some of the most pragmatic folk I know still believe there is good in the world; even though they do not blind themselves to the bad therein.
Besides, if the world really is all sturm und drang, what's the sense in letting that force you into following a path you know damages, not just good people, but everybody? There's something to be said for walking in balance. It keeps us together inside.
Bad things happen and, yes, we get down. We are human, after all. But we also get up. And that's human, too.
Shining in life does not have to be grand or easy for the masses to point at and applaud. Really, shining is many a time the simple, dogged act of just getting up.
Perhaps my headline should more accurately read:
💭Get up and pick up a piece of the world with you.
How ya like me now?
Shine on
Happy New Year 2021!
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