5 THINGS I WISH I KNEW

 

5 THINGS I WISH I KNEW 10 YEARS AGO

(EXTRACTION FROM POST: 10 THINGS I WISH I KNEW 10 YEARS AGO, WRITTEN BY: MARC AT http://www.marcandangel.com)

1. Loving someone should not mean losing YOU.

True love empowers you, it doesn’t erase you.  True love allows human beings to build amazing things, by working together through passion, kindness, and good will.  So be strong enough to stand alone, be yourself enough to stand apart, but be wise enough to share your love and stand together when the time comes.

2. Failure is success when you learn from it.

Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want.  Obstacles, Problems and Other people can’t stop you.  These barriers are temporary – they come and go.  Which is why, over the course of a lifetime, the only barrier that can truly stop you, is YOU.  So don’t give up.

3. You are not what you have done, but what you have overcome.

All the hardships.  All the mistakes.  All the rejections.  All the pain.  All the times you questioned why.  All of these things have given birth to the wisdom and strength that will help you shine your light on the world, even in the darkest of hours.

4. Your past can only hurt you today if you let it.

There are times when you need to release the bitterness and grab a firm hold of happiness, without permission and without reason.  The only way to get over the past is to leave it behind.  If you spend your time re-living moments that are gone forever, you might miss the special moments that are yet to come.

5. Sometimes what you don’t want is what you need.

Sometimes the things you can’t change end up changing you for the better.  Master your responses to external events; don’t always attempt to control them.  You will rarely end up exactly where you wanted to go, but you will always end up exactly where you need to be.