Some words to ponder as we finish the decade...

"That which oppresses me, is it my soul trying to come out in the open, or the soul of the world knocking at my heart for its entrance?" -Rabindranath Tagore


Now let me tell you how I happened about this little quote. My friend's boyfriend had a book at the office one day and instructed us each to flip it open to a random page and read the quote. He shared that he enjoyed doing this with this book of worldly quotes because he felt it was always so telling to see what page people would turn to.

This was mine.

I often speak of looking to ones environment for the answers because more often than not they are right there. Even more frequently, they are right in the mirror. But that's not always the easiest thing is it? To look into the mirror an explore the questions that sometimes throb at the back of our minds. Have I succeeded? Have I failed? Am I loved? Hated? Do I see beauty or what needs to be fixed? Or have I dove so deep into complacency that I don't even realize it nor stop to ask, "Am I happy?"

Many of us become what we are told we are, whether out of defense or surrender. And that is where we lose. Through getting stuck in the monotony of burying oneself under the rug. It is through finding the strength to choose our course instead of feeding into those that are laid before us.

It's a courage found not through others but through self-discovery. But isn't it great to know that even if you were to start now, from ground zero, it's during a time when people EVERYWHERE are paving their own lanes.....

It's the theme officially for 09...Do YOU and do it well.