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On any given day, how do you feel?
Exuberant? Hopeful? Excited?
Disheartened? Disillusioned?
Frustrated? Upset? Angry?
Admittedly, I have days when I experience all of the above!!! I feel like a roller coaster with all of its ups and downs, and twisting around! One person pays me a compliment and it makes me happy but, a little while later, another person tells me something heart-breaking and I want to cry!
My guess is that you have days like this, as well, don't you? You experience such a wide range of emotions and it sometimes feels like you'll go crazy just trying to keep yourself together!!!
For a moment, pretend you are someone else.
Pretend that you want to get married, that you are making a decision that will impact the remainder of your life!!!
You picture wedding bells, a bride and groom donned for a glorious day, with wedding rings to follow, and a dream for a lifetime of happiness. Sounds beautiful and romantic, doesn't it?
However, there is a problem with this potential paradise: you don't know who to choose! You love two people, not one!!!
You think about your feelings along with a few facts:
-You didn't ask to be confused between loving two people.
-You don't want to hurt either person you love.
-You could have a wonderful life with either person you choose.
-Person A is compatible with you in so many areas and you get along well, and talk and laugh often. You are close.
-Person B isn't as compatible with you in as many areas as Person A, but you feel special when around Person B. You feel that you can be yourself.
-You really do want to get married and settle down.
-You can only marry one person, so you have two choices: break one person's heart or break both of their hearts! Either way, your heart will be broken and the cycle starts all over again, your process of trying to decide what's best for the remainder of your life!!!
Now, pretend you have made your decision. You know who you want to spend the remainder of your life with. Now, you have a difficult conversation coming up, with a person you love, but didn't choose.
The reason you made the choice you did is irrelevent - the issue is the other person's reaction to your devastating news!
Put yourself in the position of having had your heart-broken, or think back to a prior time in your life when it happened.
Do you feel as this person feels?
Being True
There is a place
in which I dwell...
but it doesn't make
my heart swell.
Sometimes, I hurt.
Sometimes, I cry.
Sometimes, it feels
like I will die.
The pain cuts deep.
It bleeds so much.
To tell the truth,
I've never felt such!!!
So much emotion
carried deep inside.
How long can I
swim against the tide?
I want to shed tears
but I'm too scared.
They may not stop-
too much, I cared.
What of tomorrow?
I can't truly say-
A new beginning or
a heart-breaking day?
Whatever it brings
I'll be true to me.
I'll be the person
God wants me to be.
Norma Budden-Aningat
Copyright 2005
P.S. Always remember that as long as there is life, there is hope...for change and improvement, for happiness and success. Be the person God wants you to be! It's the only way you'll have true peace of mind, despite your erratic emotions!
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