If you have read this far.... then you have begun to think. And with the thinking comes hope. You can change. You can become a whole person. You can become real. You can be you! Change comes from within. Change comes from looking at yourself and deciding that something is amiss. Change takes courage and strength. It is never easy... It means thinking for yourself. It means walking the talk. It takes time, but change can happen. And with the right change... you will have peace of mind and heart.

It means taking responsibility for yourself. It means facing yourself. It means "doing the right thing". It means an "attitude adjustment". It means not blaming others. It means walking away from many things while walking towards others... It means assessing your life and yourself. It means different priorities. It may mean a different lifestyle or job. It may mean different friends. It may mean getting rid of things. It may mean getting a divorce or moving. Change always takes many forms. Always strive towards the positive. All of life and what happens here in this world is a school for the soul.

There are many tests for each of us. Before we come back to the earth plane, we actually plan for new our life and we include the harsh (and often times nasty) lessons as a test for the soul. It's also a voluntary form of  "payback". During our many lives we all get to know about rejection in it's many forms, betrayal of others and betrayal of self, confusion of the heart and mind, aloneness and isolation, depression and heartbreak, survival and needs, what it's like to be male and what it's like to be female...

We learn about everyday choices and those "once in a lifetime"choices, death of the body and death of the spirit, birth and re-birth ... and the list goes on and on into infinity. All of us will experience all of these lessons. Some will know even more traumatic things like violence, abuse, rape, murder, war and so forth. You may not feel you have a choice in any of the above when they happen.  But you do...you really do.

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