Integrity

You can say you believe in something but do you live it? Have you set a standard for yourself? You really should keep the promises that you make. Especially the ones to yourself. Then hold yourself accountable when you start to travel off your path. Sometimes we all get mad or sad. At times we doubt ourselves. We can get overwhelmed till we shut down and then act on impulses. At that point you get to decide where to go from there. Do you continue recklessly on or do you make it right? When your head hits your pillow you really have to live with yourself. You’re the only one who knows your true intentions. Are you trying to be involved with everyone and into everything around? Stretching yourself too thin? Putting out so much effort that you lose yourself. Worse even than that you are selfishly hurting others. In time you will end up hollow. You can’t do ugly things to people and have a beautiful life. It’s incredibly easy to find people to run around with. It’s very easy to find someone who will give you terrible advice. There are plenty of people who will rip you apart when you are at your weak point or turn their back when you are struggling. You have to find people who hold you accountable for your actions and for your words. Those people who care enough to call you out when you are getting off track. Find those people who want to do good with you. The ones who want you to be better tomorrow than you are today. Those people are a gift. When you grow… When you start to change…. you notice people start dropping away. Few and far between are those who want to see someone else truly happy and healthy regardless of their own situations. We have made it so easy to be victims. To complain about everything. To blame anything but ourselves. To react without thinking. Believing we deserve things without hard work. Thinking that it’s okay to dispose of people we said we loved because they aren’t convenient at the time. When really the true measure of love is loving someone even when they are being unlovable. It’s a scary world where everything has become acceptable and you have to try harder to do what’s right than what is wrong. A lot of people say “that’s just the way it is now” but I don’t accept that. In a world where you can be anything you want. Keep trying to be the best you can be. You have a new chance each morning.