Have you failed? Had your heart broken? Been tossed upon the rocks of disappointment? Fantastic. You’re still here. You’re real. You’re authentic. You understand what it’s like to be down and rise up. Keep on rising. Nothing can stop you.
The physical and emotional scars we all carry can be sources of pain or strength. It’s up to us to make the choice. The right choice makes all the difference. You are stronger than you realize.
Lifting my head
I watch the bright moon,
Lowering my head
I dream that I’m home.
Joe: “I moved into a new apartment this weekend.”
Pete: “Is there a gym in the building?”
Joe: “I don’t know, I haven’t met everyone.”
I don’t know the key to happiness, yet, most of the time, I’m happy. It happens without trying. Is it that way with you? I think happiness is all around us waiting for us to open the door to let it in.
“I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.” ~ Robert Frost
“I have never felt like I was creating anything. For me, writing is like walking through a desert and all at once, poking up through the hardpan, I see the top of a chimney. I know there’s a house under there, and I’m pretty sure that I can dig it up if I want. That’s how I feel. It’s like the stories are already there. What they pay me for is the leap of faith that says: ‘If I sit down and do this, everything will come out OK.’”
~ Stephen King
Joe: “I took my girlfriend to a classy restaurant last night and the maître d’ said, ‘Do you have reservations?'”
Pete: “What did you say?”
Joe: “I said, ‘Yes, I have reservations, I hear the portions are small, the wait staff snooty, and you don’t have pizza.”
