What do you love?

[Starrlight]

This turn towards what you deeply love saves you

-Rumi

[Starrlight]

I love God, my family and friends, running, nature, art...

[TalonNimbus]

I love my little gecko Nimbus, I love art, I love my family, and I love a nice hot cup of tea at the end of a long day.

[Starrlight in reply to TalonNimbus]

Those are great loves! I used to have a velvet gecko; geckos are very cute.

[fauxartist in reply to TalonNimbus]

I love gecko's.....they were all over a wall in the laundry room at our hotel in Hawaii one year....little guys stuck all over the wall...so cute.

[fauxartist]

I love the kindness people show each other here....I love the sound of our little ones laughing hysterically at something that just tickled their funny bone...I love the green country side we live in. I love my goofy cats who don't know they are cats..but most of all I love how my partner loves me...warts and all...I am very very grateful I have someone I love equally.....

And you know....at that dark dark time in my life when I had lost all I had, everything....including almost my life.....I would not be here today to enjoy an even better life than I had ever dreamed of....yes it's always a struggle, and I will always be a work in progress....but I'm alive to experience this peace ....even if it was just for a day.... I'd give it all up again ....to be where I am now.

[Starrlight in reply to fauxartist]

Beautiful...your words bring hope...what changed may I ask? How did you get to experiencing peace?

[fauxartist in reply to Starrlight]

I just stopped caring about everything I had lost, moved to where I always wanted to live, had to humble myself to the fact that I was no longer the person I used to be, who was financially set, confident in myself and had what I thought was important,...money, cars, house, health, etc.

I let go of it all.... sure I wish I sometimes had some of the things I cherished, my favourite things, but now I have ‘new’ favourite things....and they don’t cost a dime..love.

That’s what’s changed mostly in my life....

[Starrlight in reply to fauxartist]

I’m happy for you 😊

[Starrlight in reply to Starrlight]

Letting go of the past and the fear for future, things not serving me, that’s what I am trying to do so I can live a good life in the present

[fauxartist in reply to Starrlight]

thank you.... me too, I don't forget where I came from to get here.... I'm like everyone else here...working on my issues....it's part of who I am... good days and bad days...baby steps...all good.

[Starrlight in reply to fauxartist]

To accept that we are continually working on ourselves and accept ourselves just as we are is important. I’m trying but it’s hard most days. I work so hard but the good days seem to come out of thin air sometimes as if it doesn’t matter how hard I work on myself.

[fauxartist in reply to Starrlight]

hmmmm.....that is something for me to think about ....when good days seem to come out of thin air...you know..... if I can suggest to you as a friend who knows about trying too hard sometimes.... maybe if we just let things happen....let go of the fear of the unknown...and see that it's actually no so bad....we can't control anything anyway.....so maybe we can just take a deep breath and...enjoy not trying...just flow with it .....

[Starrlight in reply to fauxartist]

I will try to go with the flow. Haha but that’s still trying 😂 Thank you ☺️ enjoy not trying... I like it

[Hidden]

I love God , my family and friends, my cat , Husband , traveling and cultures, kind and caring people, forgiveness, nature, animals, love, laughter , deep conversations ❣

[Hidden]

I love God, nature , being there for people, life!!! XXX

[hypercat54]

Hi I have learnt to let go of the past and to accept me as I am. Not perfect but good enough. I know I am deserving of life as it was given to me so I am special. So are all of us - we all deserve to be here and to spend our lives the way we want.

Empty your hearts of bitterness and hate (towards yourself too) so it can be filled with love, kindness, compassion and the all the great positive emotions which make life worth living. x

[hypercat54]

Blimey don't know where that came from! x

[Starrlight in reply to hypercat54]

I like it

[hypercat54 in reply to Starrlight]

xx

[fauxartist in reply to hypercat54]

from the heart my friend....hypercat54....you are right...you deserve to be happy, we worked hard in this life....we all deserve to be loved.

[hypercat54 in reply to fauxartist]

Trouble is no one does love me regardless x

[Starrlight in reply to hypercat54]

💕 (((((((Hypercat54))))))) 💕

[hypercat54 in reply to Starrlight]

Aw thank you Starrlight. Same to you ((((((((Starrlight)))))) x

[fauxartist in reply to hypercat54]

we do!...

[hypercat54 in reply to fauxartist]

Thank you faux. I luvs ya too chuck! x

[Cara78]

I love to keep my life as simple as possible, no drama, good wholesome thoughts, mixing with family and being there for them. I try my best and take it easy and accept that there are gony be days when I won't be able to do this due to my illness. I am trying to be less hard on myself and not have too great an expectation of what I can do when I feel good.

[Starrlight in reply to Cara78]

Sounds like me. Trying our best is all we can do. I am practicing going with the flow today, it’s hard to retrain the brain at first. I think I care too much sometimes and need to let go. Best to you, Cara78!