WEDNESDAY THOUGHTS: SOAR

Sometimes, we need to revisit the mental notes we made as children, and young adults. 

Some of the things we swore we would never do, or would stop doing when we "got on our own", should be put back on the list. 

Good home training, complete with positive standards, is something for which to be grateful, not despised or abandoned.

Never allow anyone to sabotage the beauty you are trying to achieve, the progress you are trying to make, or the goals you are trying to reach. 

People may infer that you think you're better than them-- or others. Let them talk, and hopefully work out their own insecurities. 

Let them mull over their own unwise choices. 

Don't let them make you think you have to wallow with them, abandon your ideals, or adopt their ways. If it is possible to do and be better, then go on with your blessed self, and let people who have confused "keeping it real" with "keeping it trifling" go on thinking they're hurting others by devaluing themselves. 

There's nothing like seeing someone rise from complacency and oblivion, and deciding that they DO want more; they DO want better, and living beneath that which they know they are worth, in conditions they know in their hearts are unacceptable, are no longer options.

Some people don't want to see you do better. 

Maybe it shines a light on their shortcomings, and forces them to take a good look at themselves, and the condition of their own lives. 

Don't let that stop you from being and doing your best.