Satisfy your heart or satisfy the crowd.
There are sometimes things that we can ask ourselves to see if we are really “free”.
Like for example:
Do I write statuses to satisfy my Facebook friends, or do I just pour out my heart. Do I want to help people?
And I attempting to help people, or am I hoping to be popular so that I can feel wanted?
Do I make life-choices to be popular, or do I make choices that are good for me?
Am I a phony who likes to be patted on the head and told lies so that I can feel good, or do I want the truth whether it hurts of not?
We can do something with the truth. We can make changes so that the truth is better and feels more comfortable to live with. We can love and respect ourselves if we are living a good loving truth.
Lies and false compliments will not bring us anything good except a false belief in ourself and a false belief in our life. Eventually we will fall because a house (our spiritual heart) cannot stand strong on sand (lies and falseness).
When we were a small child we had friends, neighborhood friends etc. Some stayed friends as we moved on and some didn’t. When we started school we gained new friends, we lost some, some stayed with us. At other schools as we grew older the same thing happened. We gained friends when we went to work, and we lost old friends as they went their own ways.
Friends come and go. Some bless us and we bless them – some hurt us and we hurt some of them. That is a part of life.
There is no need to impress people who will not stay in our life forever. We don’t know what friends will come and go. Making life-choices to suit others is sad and will only bring you and I unhappiness in the long run. If we allow others to guide us or push us, or we are people pleasers then we will have a bag full of regrets as every desire and heart-felt love and idea comes to us we put it aside so that others can have what they want of us.
Is your life really your life?
Are you choosing for your own good or always for the good of others? You are not living to be a martyr. You don’t need to sacrifice your dreams and happiness so that others can be happy. You do have a choice and you can be happy. You are important.
A good person will be respected and looked up to. Many will be influenced by a person of true worth. Many will be grateful that they have someone to trust and they will want to be trusted as well. The goodness of good people rubs off on other people and they too want to be like that good person.
I hope these thoughts are helpful to you.
Remember that you are a special gift to this world. If you wonder about your worth and how you affect other peoples lives I recommend that you want the wonderful movie called Its A Wonderful Life. This movie has a wonderful way of showing you and I how we bless other peoples lives in so many wonderful ways. Your life is very important to other peoples lives, and also to animals.
Believe in your worth to others. But don’t let others choose for you. Live your own life, and by doing that you will teach and show others to do the same.
All the best from James M Sandbrook.
26th of November, 2013.
26th of November, 2013.
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