Buried Truths

1: To fix a feeling, you change your thoughts, to alter your perspective, into feeling a different way. 2: Forgiveness, not thinking that something that was done to you was right, but letting go of it and accepting what had happened. 3: Focus on the positive aspect of things, as everything has good and bad sides to it. What you focus on grows. If you are focused on the negative, you will miss the positive as if it was never there, which will create delusions. 4: Be in the present moment, don’t remain in past memories or assuming future scenarios. This will create fear and regret. 5: Challenging yourself to do something rather than dreading it. 6: Express yourself creatively, letting out your feelings and thoughts in a positive way. 7: Don’t fear change or the unknown, by welcoming it and not assuming things based on what you already know or have experienced. 8: observe rather than judge, and don't expect things to happen based on what you already know, a...

Very young I’d always watch as my brothers played video games, from halo to those scary ones our parents would never approve of. It was like watching a movie for me. I never much liked playing them myself. Watching other experienced players made it look so easy, as if anyone could play it and excel at it without much effort. Whenever I would play I would get so angry, so impatient as I could never be what others could, no matter how much practice. It’s the same as I live my life today. So conscious to how everyone swifts through their obligations like its nothing. I knew with my mentality it wasn’t so much my environment, it was always me that got in the way of success. I was not the Football player winning all his games, or the popular girl who only had to sit pretty to gain her admirers. I was the one who sat in the stands cheering for the success of others. I never really let myself try too often, as the pressure i put so deeply into the need of avoiding failure, always resulted...

Many people were conditioned to see a delusional view of what weakness truly is. They believe that being soft, emotional, open, gentle, and caring is weakness. While being emotionless, cold, hardened, closed up, rough around the edges, not giving a fuck and acting strictly out of logic, to be "strength." Then there's reality when it comes to true weakness. There's nothing weaker than giving in to something you want that you know is strictly wrong. This is very ignorant and shows a lack of self-control, maturity, morality, intellect, consideration and effort. Emotions aren't what make you weak, it is the way you endure and handle them that determines whether or not you are weak. A mixture of perspective, tolerance, maturity and the actions you base off them, that will show you how strong or weak you really are. running away from them and pushing them down due to fear, denial, insecurity, or unwantedness is true weakness. Weakness is living in an illusion, when t...