Friends for a Season

I've lost my fair share of "so-called" friends and I must admit it hurt me diabolically at the time, but take heart darlings. You're still fabulous! People are a funny folk. Sometimes they're sweet to get what they want from you. Sometimes they're sweet to drain your good energy. Sometimes few, can be genuinely sweet because they just are. Beware. Everything you see is not the truth, in this world. We are living in times of wolves dressed in sheep clothing. It's okay to lose friends, it just means that new ones are about to take their place.Take the positive, learn what you can as it'll make you stronger and keep moving forward; there's no need to look back or feel that you've lost.

Be you!

You have every right to be here and the world needs your light. So keep shining. If someone is trying to black-mail you into a friendship, black-mail you into doing their bidding, or black-mail you into being something that you're not. Don't keep that negative pressure in your life! You DO NOT have to be like everybody else. You are a unique individual with your own talents, desires and purpose.

Spend time with others who inspire you, motivate you, encourage you and most of all, truly love you from the core out. Looks fade, and fame is a-fleeting, but true friends come few in a lifetime. So yes, you may have a million followers/friends on Facebook waiting to see you fall. But those friends that are there for you in your times of struggle, the ones that believe in you when nobody else does, the ones that ask "How are you?" and really mean it - those are the keepers! You already know the truth.

Let it go!

And know, that there's a reason for everything under the sun. Someone that encourages you to do things that aren't wholesome and things that aren't strengthening you in a positive way, let them go! They don't know better and they don't want to know better. Everybody isn't going to LIKE YOU. It's okay. Because you're you, and they're them. Once you know that you're doing the best you can and you aspire to keep doing better, then you're on the right track. Don't let someone stop you because they're jealous or don't want the best for you. They're on their path, and you're on yours. The Universe/God is just going to attract the right people and new friends in your life to keep you on the path you need to be.

Times are tough, the road is bumpy, but you've got all the fuel you need to arrive right on time! Don't worry darlings, your'e on your way, and your heavenly team is anxiously awaiting your arrival. Enjoy the journey because with all your good deeds, you're in for a very HANDSOME reward!

Bless-up!

Love Jair 

Adapt

It’s not always easy adapting to change; we humans hate it immensely. To us it’s like diving into a pot of hot water; we much rather prefer a subtle change of temperature. Because change into the unknown; we always want gloves and flashlights; we always want to be prepared. If life was like that; then we’d never be able to call it an ‘adventure’; and how boring life would be indeed.

All flights were full that day, so I’d have to take the ferry to get to the other island. Flying is no problem for me; you’re in, you’re out, you sleep during the turbulence – story of my life; but the ferry, well…not so much; especially if you didn’t have good company or a good book. I was up at the crack of dawn, pushing with people who wanted to get on and get the BEST seats. And ‘for your information’ - all the seats on the ferry are ‘the same’! :D Anyway, I got on and saw a seat next to a man, he was reading and quiet; I thought GREAT; it won’t be a rambunctious 2 hours. I did a double-take, and the man I happened to sit next to was actually the father of my first ‘crush’; I was but a young lass, of only 13. And now I’d sit next to the father of the acolyte I’d stare at for what seemed like hours instead of listening to what the priest was saying in church! Could it really be!? J

I didn’t get too much news about what his son was up to now; but instead I got a world of inspiration and life lessons that all of you my readers I’m sure can benefit from. Going with the flow of the Universe! He said that in life we must learn to be adaptable creatures, we must be flexible and bend like trees do in the wind. He said if we don’t go with God’s purpose for our lives, we will never learn what it is that he is trying to teach us. So stop asking “why me!?” And instead adapt to the change and accept whatever lesson, the Universe/God is trying to teach you. If you do not adapt then you will not gain ‘peace of mind’. And if you do not have a ‘peace of mind’ then you will never have happiness and more importantly never learn your lessons.

He also enlightened me to the fact that in life; we must be ourselves. Stop trying to be like everybody else! Stop comparing yourself with others! You are a unique individual with special desires placed in your heart for a reason; everyone has a different purpose and different lessons to learn while we are here; therefore BE YOU! He told me that he always loved Agriculture, he loved playing in the dirt and planting flowers and trees from a small boy, but his parents wanted him to study engineering. He gave up his dream and now that he is retired he is finally doing what his heart called him to do so many years before. He says that he beautifies that same church we all attended with lovely flowers form corner to corner. He said he learns a lot from nature also that we can learn a lot from too; back to the ‘trees bending with the wind’; if they fought against the wind then they would easily break. We need to be flexible with the flow of the Universe and trust that it is for the BEST outcome.

“Life is complex simultaneous equations with many variables!” he said; I suppose going off the path for a bit didn’t harm him one bit; but it was ‘being himself’ and taking the journey of his heart, trusting without knowing that brought him ‘peace of mind’ and ultimately happiness! Our lessons today – be adaptable in life, be you, and for heaven’s sake pay attention to the priest and not the young acolyte carrying the candles! Ha ha! :D

Bless-up darlings,

Jair J