Strong Roots
Challenges and goals in life can make you stronger or they can make you feel like a failure. Whether it is trying to lose weight, do a good job, play an instrument, play on a team or just stay healthy. It is up to you and I would say whatever it is you have to have a daily practice. Each individual has probably been taught this in one way or another through prayer or meditation or whatever you want to call a daily practice of reflection. I think life moves so fast now, it may not happen for everyone. But, I for one, feel like I may have been running through life since the age of 12. Even then my calender was full with babysitting and volunteering. My first summer out of grade school and I worked( volunteered) at a summer camp for autistic children. I learned so much that summer about myself. I learned I was sensitive and too full of empathy to go into the field of caring for others. I would have a hard time sleeping thinking of the little girl who was assigned to me. So ma...