Be careful how you talk to yourself because you are listening!

I take stuff for granted. I suspect you take stuff for granted.It’s almost as if it can’t be helped. When things—family, friends, health, amenities, or money—occupy a place in our lives for years, we naturally begin to view them as commonplace; we assume they’ll forever be, just as they’ve always been.

As someone who usually enjoys solitude, I’ve been surprised at how lonely I’ve felt at times. You discover a special kind of alienation when you’re in a city of many people and can’t communicate with anyone. It’s easy to dissociate yourself from your surroundings and distractions.

It’s during those periods that you realize you’d trade whatever you had for a few days at home with the people you’ve known for years. To do nothing but laugh a few hours away with those irreplaceable personalities whom you know about as well as your own reflection. But as you do, it becomes clear that these substitutes can never duplicate a sizable bear-hug, or an eye-contact-followed-by-uproarious-laughter moment, or the glorious interplay of energies when you’re actually in the same room with people enjoying a perfect moment.

Gratitude Can Be Slippery:

Simply imagine for a few moments what it would be like if all of the people you loved were just gone, so far away that you couldn’t see them. It’s likely difficult to put yourself in my situation, but my hope is that you can sense it—how you would miss the familiar comfort of just being with them, of just sharing a space or a smile.

It seems a bit of a paradox, that what is nearest our hearts can be hardest to see. I humbly submit to you that we ought to be attentive to what lies just below our oblivious noses, lest we recognize the value of things only after they’ve left us.

I’d be a fool (more so than I already am) if I didn’t understand that this don’t-take-things-for-granted. We all have been in that situation.

Who could have thought one small four letter word can seem so innocent yet be so dangerous? Everyday we use the word “hate” for almost everything. But what does it actually mean?

People often use the word hate in terms of saying, “I hate hot sauce ” but hate means so much more. Hate is not only a word that people use to describe how much they don’t like something or someone but it is also a feeling. Put to the test, people find they don’t actually hate anything but they do not like things such as foods or actions, people etc...

Hate is more than a word or action. It is an emotion.You don’t know hate until you know love.” Love and hate are such strong emotions that people can forget how much they mean. Loving someone or something means there is a bond that will never be broken. So you can’t really love someone without all the problems and pain.

Hate is an emotion, a feeling that people will get and no one really knows this feeling unless something happens that it springs to life. Once you get the feeling and emotion of hate you realize, Oh this is what it’s like to actually hate. Hate is something you will carry with you for the rest of your life. So I’m asking you, do you really hate?

Are you intentionally speaking out of term because of your surroundings? Be careful how you speak to yourself. Beautifully Empowered is not just a book, but also a guide into helping you manage your emotions, understanding what you are feeling.

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