Well, I have now completed 25 years of life on this lovely planet. What have I learned and accomplished in this past year? I have learned more than ever in this past year of living in a different country, separated from how I grew up and my friends and family. Gaining a new perspective on life, and the millions of ways in which lives are lived, has been very eye-opening to me. I have learned so much about how far my comfort zone can be pushed, and have seen myself be changed over the course of a year. I do not have any deep reflections about being twenty five, although I was joking about having my quarter-life crisis. I actually think I'm beginning to gain more peace of mind, versus being in any state of crisis, as parts of whom I am become more solidified.
"It would be better for me to have a musical instrument or a chorus which I was directing in discord and out of tune, better that the mass of mankind should disagree with me and contradict me than that I, a single individual, should be out of harmony with myself and contradict myself." Plato
I understand this fully. For so many years I found this discord within myself; living one way, yet judging the same actions that I made. Living one way, out of tune with what was going inside of my head and heart. Living one way, a child of sin, while desperately trying to hold on to some inkling of innocence and wishing to be a better child of God instead. The disconnect between thoughts, beliefs, and my actions, absolutely tore me apart. What I feel now is a new revival of myself and my soul, that life can be lived the way that I had viewed it before, and that life does not have to be led in sin and personal destruction.
I am very thankful that through this all, God constantly called to me...constantly tugged at my heartstrings, however fragile they were. He has never left my side, He has always been there. I simply ignored or distorted the calls before. I am so thankful that He has given me such good friends and family that are still here for me, supporting me, who also share the same beliefs. I pray that other people that I know are also opened to His loving embrace and mercy, so that they may share in the joy and peace of the Lord.
"It would be better for me to have a musical instrument or a chorus which I was directing in discord and out of tune, better that the mass of mankind should disagree with me and contradict me than that I, a single individual, should be out of harmony with myself and contradict myself." Plato
I understand this fully. For so many years I found this discord within myself; living one way, yet judging the same actions that I made. Living one way, out of tune with what was going inside of my head and heart. Living one way, a child of sin, while desperately trying to hold on to some inkling of innocence and wishing to be a better child of God instead. The disconnect between thoughts, beliefs, and my actions, absolutely tore me apart. What I feel now is a new revival of myself and my soul, that life can be lived the way that I had viewed it before, and that life does not have to be led in sin and personal destruction.
I am very thankful that through this all, God constantly called to me...constantly tugged at my heartstrings, however fragile they were. He has never left my side, He has always been there. I simply ignored or distorted the calls before. I am so thankful that He has given me such good friends and family that are still here for me, supporting me, who also share the same beliefs. I pray that other people that I know are also opened to His loving embrace and mercy, so that they may share in the joy and peace of the Lord.
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