Some things work.
Some things don't.
It's interesting to find out what's subjective, pertaining to you and your experiences, and what is not so beneficial to your endeavors.
From one place to another, priorities are for yourself. What's best for you might not be what's best for someone else. But the objective truth of this matter is that everyone has something that renders as "good," beneficial for their existence. Be it in a psychological matter or the physical maintenance of a person after years of wear and year from Life's unrelenting forces: January, the door to the new year, has provided many opportunities.
Say you got the chance to do something you really wanted to, right? That you were hoping it was going to happen soon, sooner than soon even, and you were waiting for the stars to align. In your moment of fixation on that one concern, the rest of the opportunities that may extended their reaches to you may have whirred right by.
No need to fret, because while "one door closes, another one opens." Or maybe a window, if that's how fortunate you turn out to be.
I took some time to examine myself. Where I was on the ladder of others, where I put myself in my own order of importance - and I learned a lot this January. When I tried "Month by Month," my little project to live each month in a certain, positive mindset based on Nicole's You Are Loved campaign, I got lost with all the scattered possibilities. And then when I tried to focus on one possibility, all the others got neglected and drifted to the wayside.
There was no happy medium.
Because I did not understand a happy medium.
I didn't reflect too much on last year, but the precious semester of school assisted me in keying into myself and learning a lot. I adopted responsibility for my actions, how I developed into the person I am now or even when I decided to come to terms with the body, the mind, and the soul I have been dealt with, and how to make each subsequent day better than the day before it.
I know I complain a lot to my friend and humans need a means by which to vent. But there's a fine line we should draw where the matters of things being bludgeoned with attention and emotions are truly, significantly worth our time to waste breath on.
Salvage your intelligence, your sentience, because it's just as easily damaged as it is utilized. And that's a scary thing. I've never feared many things in my life: losing any part of me - be it a physical capability or an emotional / mental portion - has recently been discovered as one of these things.
Something I'd love to learn is how to take all of the things I reflected on in January, how I used a new direction to face what I have already passed, and just redirect them to all other aspects in my life.
I evaluated myself by how I treated other people, the things I appreciated, how things in my life affected other relationships and obligations I had in my life. Family's family; and all else, friends and strangers, to be dealt with respect and a complete open-heart. I found a lot of kinks and flaws that were only parts of the portrait, shaded in darker hues and lighter highlights of character, experience, and perseverance.
Such a transition, from analyzing, spectating and inspecting to exercise and execution of these thoughts.
What's important for your life is you. You need to take care of yourself.
This next month, February, is to take care of yourself.
Take that extra 15 and do the extra reps that you wouldn't have made time for later in the week.
Eat the meals you postponed or were too busy for. Find a new diet structure or even find some nutritional information that will not only flatter your health, but also introduce you to something new.
I mean, don't go so far as to change your entire diet to prove a point for this month: the main message is to take care of yourself.
Take care of yourself first. Make sure you're healthy and able to do what you need to. If there's anything in your way, lift yourself from the level you're on and find your optimal state of being. Bring the world to your hands and recall the great capabilities that you always possessed.
Set goals for yourself you've had before, or maybe you have tried and haven't succeeded, and get them done within the month.
You're as beautiful and amazing as they come, even as you are.
But everyone always wants to become better at whatever they can.
And this month should be taking care of yourself.
We'll see how this goes.
<3 ~ Monty.
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