Making your OWN Decisions

"You can seek advice of others, surround yourself with trusted advisers. But in the end, the decision is always yours and yours alone. And when it's time to act and you're all alone with your back against the wall, the only voice that matters is the one in your head. The one telling you what you already knew. The one that's almost always right."

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

Making your own decisions.... It's not easy. I'm sure that everyone out there agrees when I say that life would be so much more simple if you could go to your mom or your dad and have them decide what you should do or tell you who you are. It would be much more simple if the statement, "your parents know best" was in fact true. But it doesn't work out that way. As much as you pray and you wish it were, it's not. So instead, we all must walk this journey alone for awhile and figure out who we independently are. We need to figure out how to do this without the influence of others or everyone's own opinions clouding our thoughts and mind. In the end, all that should matter is yourself; how you feel, what you think, what you want, who you are or who you want to become. I understand that it is impossible to avoid influence all-together. It's everywhere around us. On TV, in the books we read, the music that we listen to, the people we associate with at work or in our own spare time, even our closest family and friend. Everything influences in some way or another. What matters is how we use those opinions and influences, and what we do with them. Are we going to listen to what they say and become who THEY want us to mold into or become? Or are we going to push what everyone else thinks to the back of our minds, the back of our hearts, and are we going to become who we OURSELVES want to become and who we OURSELVES want to be? That's where I am right now. Trying to make sense of this beautiful mess of a world.