Niki

Everytime you reaffirm your faith in yourself, it grows stronger, while simultaneoously, anything that kept you down and held you back grows weaker and weaker. Stand tall and march proudly toward your goals and dreams with your shoulders squared and your head held high. Barriers that seemed insurmountable, will become surmountable. Maybe even a piece of cake. This may not happen in the wink of an eye. In fact, it may take days, weeks,months - who knows? The landscape of our lives is vast and varied. But as long as you are moving forward, if only by cm's, it doesnt matter what lies in front of you. You still get where you are going in the end. Of course, even while composing the world's greatest symphony, you can still feel like you are pushing poo uphill. And even if you are moving forward on your life journey, you might sometimes feel like you want to stop the world and get off. You WILL make mistakes and you WILL look stupid - we all do. That is part of the process. People will laugh at your blunders - that's part of it too. Don't let anger, frustration and embarrasment ruin your plans. If you have to, stick your head in ice water to defy your brain. Don't waste precious time and energy looking backward or worrying about naysayers. You'll just trip yourself up. Do take advantage of spare moments to re-evaluate your strategy. You might have to alter your flight pathto avoid heavy weather. Then dig deep and set out again and again and again, until you make it. And you WILL make it. If you just keep paddling, your wave will arrive to take you all the way to the beach. You will find your Holy Grail. When that happens, you will be deafened by the cheering of celestial hosts and surrounded by adoring public. Or you can sit quietly and savour the moment. Best of all, you can experience the peaceful satisfaction that comes when you are true to yourself. For you will be one of those rare individuals who truly live their dreams. You will be someone who has the courage to seek out anything that stirs your heart and soul. And when opposing forces great and small shout out thier dark challenge, you will be able to answer calmly and clearly, "Bring it!"