Today is the day I shave my beard.
Today is the day I choose to change, the way I look on the outside and the way I work on the inside. I feel like I have been building for this change a long time, just thinking about what I am becoming right now makes me excited!
I can see my past, near and far, and acknowledge the journey I have gone. Mistakes, decisions and chance are what brought me here and I am thankful for all that I have been though. This one time, I recall that I was narrow-minded as I was making a major decision, I forgot about my happiness and my satisfaction, really, and used external expectations and the likes of social sentiment as a guide. This led me in the way of hurdles and suffering as well as having done beautiful things and feelings from all ends of the scale. I do not perceive that as a bad thing when I can see now that I only learn when it hurts, and mistakes are an inevitable part of my story, as I appreciate the bad at least as much I am grateful for the good.
I ask for the ability to see as clear as I can what is right and wrong to me, to understand and embrace the past lessons and to keep moving towards a better present. The courage to accept myself fully and completely, refrain from doubting my ways and judge my actions with wisdom and forgiveness.
What I seek is to lead a life of joy and fulfilment, to pursue more of the things I have concluded with flashes of wisdom and less of the things I do on autopilot without ever examining. I see how all life starts with the same challenges, and each has his own specific experience but all are on the path between life and death, prosperity and destruction, happiness and suffering, love and hatred, satisfaction and regret.
I wish to whoever reads this, as to my self, to do more and take a step closer to yourself, find a partner within you and better this given relationship that will last till your last breath – understand and love yourself, listen to what you are showing yourself in many varied ways, and act upon that with courage and certainty.
Remember that every moment you exist is a miracle formed inside an eternal system of life that keeps building and destructing, essentially identical to you – it keeps moving forward. Take your part of this reality and make it just a little bit better with every drop of energy you put towards the right places.