Today I was looking for inspiration. For the past few weeks, I have been assisting my friend T.E. in creating a roadside memorial to commemorate the 1yr passing of her husband S.M. – a great friend and a mentor. Also the circumstances of life are not great right now and I was feeling a bit down trying to deal with it. I was sad with her but also got sad for myself. Her experience brought back the feelings of my mom’s passing and my circumstances brought on a pity party!!

I called a few friends & family who could cheer me up and get me out of this space, but all I seemed to get were voicemails. Immediately I heard the voice in my head say “there is no one that will listen to me” and I started to believe it!

No! I am not going to let that story hit the presses! I am stopping it now! I took action & started to change that train of thought immediately! I thought to myself “The only person that is going to inspire me is me.”

What I mean by that is that inspiration comes not from others or from things that will light me up – it has to come from within me! I have to take action & be inspired for myself. I have to be happy with myself and the way that my circumstances are!! My life is the way that it is and feeling down, sad, lonely does nothing! except leave me feeling down, sad and lonely!

So what is there to do? Well, live the moment & be truly inspired with who I am!

See lately, I have not felt like writing at all! So I inspired myself to write! I have not posted in this blog a long while, so here I am posting – anyway!

I am not going to let my old mindset take over. I love reading, so I started to read inspiring stories. I even put inspiring audiobooks in my mp3 player so I have them wherever I go!

The first person I thought of is Paulo Cuelho. He is truly inspiring to me & it’s no coincidence that this story was the first thing I opened to.

I felt I needed to share this with you.

Rebuilding The World
A father was trying to read the newspaper, but his little son kept pestering him. Finally, the father grew tired of this and, tearing a page from the newspaper – one that bore a map of the world – he cut it into several pieces and handed them to his son.

“Right, now you’ve got something to do. I’ve given you a map of the world and I want to see if you can put it back together correctly.” He resumed his reading, knowing that the task would keep the child occupied for the rest of the day.

However, a quarter of an hour later, the boy returned with the map.

“Has your mother been teaching you geography?” asked his father in astonishment.

“I don’t even know what that is,” replied the boy. “But there was a photo of a man on the other side of the page, so I put the man back together and found that I’d put the world back together too.”

— Paulo Coelho
Stories for Parents, Children and Grandchildren

Wow! Now applying that to my life – If I put myself back together again, I am causing the world to be together as well!

In healing my grief and accepting what is incomplete, I heal me! In healing myself, I allow those around me to heal themselves; they in turn allow space for those around them to heal & so on & so on….

Thereby allowing the world to heal. This concept is really empowering and I love this new perspective!

By being complete with my grief, I can allow T.E. to complete hers. (This memorial for S.M. may be the access for her to be complete). In her being complete, she may allow…

you to complete yours…