Someone Taking Your Love For Granted

You are not a boomerang and should not be bouncing back to someone taking your love for granted. This should be the feeling and understanding people have so that they are not continuously taken advantage of and basically taken for granted. When a person is put aside or rejected by another they should and must put that relationship to rest and behind them and move forward. It may take some time but there will be someone else coming in the future and that someone is going to be the one that truly cares and wants to make one's life one that will be filled with love and great joy. Everyone deserves to be treated with care and respect and if that is not happening in a relationship between two people supposedly in love with each other it might be time to re-examine things and move on.

The fact of the matter is that every individual is truly special and anyone who cannot see that and understand it is probably not the type of person another will want to be around for long. Life is a special gift and sharing it with someone that can be loved and appreciated is truly a blessing and never anything to be taken for granted. Everyone deserves the right to be totally happy and to feel special.

Living in the Past, Limit your Future

It is important not to let living in the past limit your future. Retroactive existence can significantly retard future progress and dampen your outlook by blinding you to all of life's opportunities. Do not narrow future horizons by letting the demons of your past haunt your present. Avoid dwelling on past mistakes and regrettable decisions that can prevent you from being the best person you can possibly become.

Instead, adopt an attitude of determination to turn today's stumbling blocks into the foundations of a solid tomorrow. Better visualization of ever-widening doors on a brighter future requires increasing blindness to those that have firmly shut behind us. Although change can be somewhat frightening, we should never let irrational fear stand in the way of future growth. Instead of struggling to keep a tight grip on what has already happened, we must struggle to relinquish destructive links to past mistakes.

Life's Recipe - Love LIFE

Life is short, live it. Love is rare, grab it. Anger is bad, dump it. Fear is awful, face it. Memories are sweet, cherish them.

There are times when you feel your life has problems like no else’s and that you are not important to anyone. When you start enjoying life in such trying times, you learn to appreciate the beauty of everything around you. Nature has given us only one life and the time passed cannot be regained. Life is short, live it.

Love is rare, grab it. Some people may love you without any reason and regardless of who you are and what you do; they will go on loving you. You must appreciate being loved and love back. It doesn’t hurt to declare your love for someone even if they already know about it. Treating your mom to that fancy restaurant she always dreamt of going to, taking your niece to a park and feeding a meal to the roadside kid gives so much love from so many people.

Life brings some moments of anger when you cannot control yourself. Remember, there is nothing in your nature that you cannot control without strong determination. Anger is bad, dump it. What you may regret later should be mended now. Learn self control and meditation that make your life as well as lives of your fellowmen beautiful.

Drawing courtesy of thinkinginsomniac

Each one of us has a weakness that stops us from achieving our goals. Living a life in fear is not living at all. Also, fear gets you nowhere and you become its slave for a lifetime. Fear is awful, face it. When you learn to face fear, gradually you will get over it. Nothing can come in between your dreams like fear can, so get over it.

Memories are sweet, cherish them. The first time you met your best friend, your first love, the day your child was born…there are innumerable memories stored in your brain. However, not all memories are happy ones. The sad ones can be remembered and thanked for as they have made you strong. Hence, Life is short, live it. Love is rare, grab it. Anger is bad, dump it. Fear is awful, face it. Memories are sweet, cherish them.

2011 Moira G Gallaga©

10 Reasons to Love Your Girlfriends

Just a reminder from one of your friendly neighborhood feminists: Make 2012 a memorable year by celebrating the awesome women in our life. :-D

1. As much as your husband/boyfriend/guy pals love you, they don’t want to hear about your period. They don’t understand it. Just let them be. Girlfriends understand and sympathize, and they probably need someone to vent to as much as you do.

2. We’re not in high school anymore! Or hell, even if you are in high school, it’s well past time we all learn that other women are not our competition. There are more than enough human beings on this planet for everyone to find a match, so quit looking at the fun, cute, smart lady next to you as your enemy and make her your friend!

3. The simplest form of feminism is friendship among women.

4. Women are gorgeous, and whether you swing that way or not, there’s no harm in admiring the beauty of your friends.

5. Surrounding yourself with women you admire can bring out the best in you. After all, if these ladies are so great, and they’re friends with you, maybe you’re not so bad, either!

6. Motivation! When you have common goals with your girlfriends, it can lead to some healthy competition, but you can also spur each other on toward bigger and better things.

7. The more you love other people, the more you can understand and love yourself. How many old scars have been healed while trading stories with a girlfriend? Well, speaking for myself, quite a few!

8. Celebrating other’s successes is fun. You can have a great time being happy for your girlfriends. Your fabulous BFF has earned her success, and it’s encouraging to see her hard work pay off. Then, when your turn comes, she’ll be there to celebrate with you. There’s plenty joy to go around, so share it freely!

9. Creative energy abounds – you never know what kinds of things can happen when you get two or three (or twenty) inspired women together. Maybe you’ll put on an art show, launch a blog or start a business. There’s no limit to what friends can accomplish together.

10. Fun! Do we remember fun? What is life if you’re not having fun? And what better source of fun than your girlfriends? So, call up a girlfriend or two to meet for coffee, go shopping, watch a movie, just hang out, and share little tidbits about anything and everything till your cell phone dies, and remember to have fun!

“To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.”

Give Yourself the Life You Want

So often we do not give ourselves the life we want. We stifle our creativity, we hold back on loving and on being loved. We allow ourselves to feel bad and sad, and have trouble letting ourselves be happy. We have such a hard time letting someone love us. Why do we think we deserve the bad things that happen but not the good? Are we conditioned to think it is wrong to be happy, to be joyful? We can change our way of thinking, it's not easy, but it can be done. Write down the thoughts that will do you good, write them where you will see them often. On your bathroom mirror, post it on your desk, on your refrigerator and anywhere else you will see them often. Change your life one thought at a time. Say your mantra out loud and believe each one.

I am lovable and deserve to be loved.

I am loved and can love others.

I am sexy and am not afraid to let others see that.

I am fun to be with.

I am boring when I don’t like the person I’m with.

I am interesting.

I deserve happiness.

I have made mistakes and that is Okay, I can let them go.

I can cut poisonous people out of my life.

No one can make me feel guilty.

I can succeed, I will succeed and I succeeded.

I will look for joy in each day.

I will have the relationship that I want, I will not settle for less.

Your list may be similar or totally different. Make your list reflect what is important to you and what you need help with. Do not give up; keep repeating your phrases and they will eventually sink in. You will begin attracting what you ask for. 

2011 Moira G Gallaga ©