is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies. No excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.
This is a quote by Bob Moawad.
Very often we get caught in the loop of the past (as my DD says I tend to do) - not deliberately, no, but thoughts of hurt and pain suffered many years ago, thoughts that we have not been able to banish from our consciousness, creep back before we even realize that they're creeping in, and then all of a sudden we find ourselves totally caught up in the feelings of that time - feelings that we should have totally got rid of. Once we get caught in this loop, then it needs a hard jolt to get us out of it because those painful, hurting thoughts still have the power to hold us in their grip. Just as we fought these feelings at the time they happened and concentrated on the tasks at hand, thus pushing them to a place deep, deep down away from our minds, we need to consciously fight and remove them completely from our heart and mind. Why, we may ask ourselves....why should we forget? We need to forget, simply because the people who dealt us those hurts and sorrows have long forgotten and are living their lives quite oblivious of the havoc and damage they created. Whereas we, by not pushing these things out of our system, are storing the poison which slowly seeps in at these times when we are in the loop of the past and debilitates us...even if it for a brief time before we snap out of it, we have allowed the poison to come out and destroy our peace of mind and upset the tenor of our lives.
Thus, we need to work on believing that we are not only survivors, but have fought and moved onwards and upwards without even realizing it. We need to believe this consciously so that we live in this manner...and not creep around the edges of life. We have our place under the Sun and we need to build on this....build our own life of quality. Quality does not come in from the outside. That we are of people with sterling qualities is something we need to believe so hard and so strongly that it percolates outwards from the inside. As Bob Moawad says, “Quality begins on the inside... then works its way out.”
And so: Each day is the best day of my life because this is the day on which I decide my life is my own. No apologies. No excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, blame. The gift is mine - it is an amazing journey - and I alone am responsible for the quality of it. This is the day my life really begins.