Remember, You Are A World…

There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.

J.R.R. Tolkien

First things first. Be Kind to yourself. There isn’t a person that you encounter that knows everything that you’re going through- what you are dealing with. Regardless of how you got there.

Being honest with yourself isn’t about accepting just one piece of your existence. It’s all yours to hold and to use towards whatever ends you are working towards.

I struggle with sharing some of the thoughts I have because I realize there is so much going on in the world as a whole; and some of this takes away from some of that. But, the more I share this perspective my friends tell me I’m looking at it too narrowly. Sometimes, the thoughts are welcomed as an acknowledgement of the width of experience. Does that make sense? Sometimes we just need to know that there is something beyond the heaviest of topics and tragedies; with all due respect to the travesties that are happening.

Back to the quote though- “There is some good in this world…”- sometimes you have to work through all the difficult portions to get to the good, but it’s there. Just like ourselves. Sometimes we have to go through and work through all the things we don’t like about ourselves to begin to see the good in ourselves. If that ain’t worth fighting for- what is?