Keep Moving Forward

This past weekend, I had the pleasure of spending time with my best friends.  As usual, we played "catch-up" as we filled each other in on the latest happenings, break-throughs, struggles, dramas, and future plans. So many thoughts rushed through my head.  Mainly, during the news of things that weren't so great, I thought of how we all sat there, taking time from our lives, traveling from various places, to ensure that we made time...to have a great time.  By looking at us, you'd never think that we'd been going through as much as we were.  Regardless of what life gave us, we had no choice but to MOVE FORWARD.

Unfortunately, I've bared witness to friends and family losing loved ones within the past year and it was the toughest thing I've had to do thus far.  There's nothing that you can do but stand there with silent support.  At that moment, it seems like life will always be this way.  It seems that there is no way that you could ever laugh or enjoy life again.  Your mind knows that you'll feel different in a while, but your heart and your spirit can't fathom how you'll actually be able to really move past it.  Before you know it days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months, and months turn into years.  Somehow, some way, you actually find a way to MOVE FORWARD.

The above are just a couple of examples of how you can look up and find yourself in a different place and in a further place than you were and than you thought you'd ever be.  In life, there's no choice but to move forward.  You can either make the best of your situation, work through it, and find the silver lining, or you can lay down and die.  I choose door #1...what about you?  You'll find that your seeds of strength blossom in the most difficult of times.   You will learn more about yourself and your ability to bounce back no matter what because the only true option is to MOVE FORWARD. 

Today, make the decision to look forward despite the circumstance.  You'll never know what lies ahead if you allow yourself to quicksand in your current situation.  Live. Laugh. Love.

Cheers to your next chapter of life!

Until next time....keep the forward movement