Truths...

If you don't know who you are, someone less qualified would define you. If you do not know your own worth, someone less humane would make mincemeat out of you. Definitely not because they are better than you... but because they recognize an opportunity to walk over Royalty - and feed their own puny ego.
Be careful who you work for, they might keep you under. Be careful who you love, they might keep you bound. Both, if chosen wrong, could definitely limit you and threaten the fulfillment of your destiny.
Who are you? Fearfully and wonderfully made! So valuable God had to send His Son to die for you. If you were the only one one earth He would have still sent His Son to redeem you. You don't believe? That's just a 'testimony' to how little you know of your own value. But the One who created you placed that value on you whether you like it or not. Take it or leave it.
'Cast not your pearls before swine' is written to you for a purpose. If you are valuable don't entertain trash. You can't help anyone who does not want to be helped. Sometimes you need to hear the cry for help before rushing to the rescue or the spine someone needs might never be formed. Whatever you do though, don't cast your valuables into the hands of someone who obviously can't honour you because they couldn't first, honour themselves. Truly, you can't give what you don't have.
Surround yourself with people who encourage you, believe in you, pull you up or push you to greater heights. Usually these would be people who themselves have a core, who are not deficient or warped in themselves. Only these can have the confidence, the core to challenge you positively.
People who are inherently wrong, who are inherently deficient in self esteem, who have turned their backs on God and on His truths in anyway cannot help you. Choose your friends carefully. There are more than enough challenges to occupy your time without you wasting your energies on avoidable ones vis-a-vis flaky friends and pretentious allies. Choose your friends carefully. We always know the truth. We just usually don't like what it tells us so we claim ignorance.
Finally, pray the prayer of serenity and pray it sincerely. It would help you get things in perspective. That would definitely make life easier.


Prayer of Serenity

God grant me
The Serenity to accept the things I cannot change
The Courage to change the things I can
And Wisdom to know the difference

I hold the Aces

It's a beautiful thing about life- the power of choice. We can choose to live life at the behest of others or we can choose to live life on our own terms. It's up to us, really. One thing certain about life though is that it's never as serious as it seems. It comes at us growling like a babysitter playing cookie monster with her charges but really, she's no monster at all... and every scared shriek her charges emit are really either a sure sign of agreeable fun or of pure unadulterated energy wasted on a farce.

It's the same with life. When it comes at us growling, roaring, demanding we scamper in fear, the truth is we hold the aces- what's important at twelve won't be at twenty. And what we'd give an arm and a leg for at thirty would be lucky if it got so much as a disinterested look from us at fifty. So what's all the fuss about?

Life can growl all it wants- till I'm called home, even. But it is I, who has been given the power to choose. Life can hurl all it wants, but what I'd do belongs to me.

I hold the Aces.