Look Within

At some point, I felt it necessary to count blessings, sadly at that point they weren’t my blessings that I was counting, but those of others. What this meant is that my own I neglected. My relationships, my decisions, my talents, hardly intentional as I spent time looking at the image others put out on social media, always focused on the best foot others brought forward. At some point, I also felt it necessary to take note of the opportunities afforded to others and never the ones that were afforded to me because opportunity in the eyes of whom it is meant for looks like work but in the eyes of an onlooker opportunity looks completed. This made me miss what was meant for me. Laziness and vanity cost me. The reason I bring this up is looking back, I realised how time-lapses different for everyone and how my perceptions back then really slowed me down and how much time I had wasted because I was so preoccupied with what others had been gifted and blessed with and never what was afforded to me. Comparisons are inevitable in some cases I understand but we have to ask ourselves what our yardstick is. Remember this, an object does not change as a result of what the perceiver sees but as a result of what the object agrees too. Do not take your story and graces and compare them to someone else or expect them to look a certain way because that is how we miss what is truly meant for us. This is your story, so best believe its timing and execution will not be the same as someone else’s because it is just as unique as you are.

Tags: blessings, comparisons, grace, introspection, perception, recovery, self-esteem, self-worth, unique, vanity, wisdom