Retail Therapy

trap, it should be, life is unpredictable, get out of the shops and spend it with people you love, you can't take those shoes with you when you are no longer here.

    From the time we are born, we are taught about materialism and that more is better. Some clever person even came up with the phrase..RETAIL THERAPY. They tell us we need to shop to fill the void of loneliness, sadness, overweight, low self esteem, relationship problems and even when you've had a bad day. Now, there are phrases out there telling us that shopping is cheaper than therapy, until you get that credit card bill, then you might wish you went to therapy instead. The world has conditioned us to want more. The latest fashions that only last a few months, and then they tell us to go and shop yet again because what we wore last month is out of style. Women have been convinced that they are inadequate unless they have over twenty pairs of shoes.
       Our society has entirely lost itself. We shop as a hobby, we consume at an accelerated pace without a second though of what it is doing to the environment. Do we even consider the repercussions that our shopping habits have on the earth that we are suppose to look after, so our children can have a home? We don't think about all the trash that we put back into the environment, we shop aimlessly, and when these items no longer serve us....we discard of them without thinking what it will do to the environment. We need to wake up and see what we have done to mother earth...even if we don't care much for that, think about this. You buy items with hours taken from your life, not money, you exchange your life with items that you will throw into the trash very soon. wouldn't you rather spend that time with your loved ones? or teaching the next generation to not be materialistic?

Celebrate Life

   What does it mean to celebrate life? do we only celebrate life when we are happy and everything is going well for us? I won't sugar-coat it, I've had a terrible year. I've lost people I love and hence there has been very little reason for me to celebrate life, however, I naturally love life, I think there is so much to learn and explore. We don't only need to celebrate life and enjoy it when we are happy, Life is beautiful and we've been given so much beauty on earth to admire. What makes my life work celebrating? I have a passion for life, whether there are friends in it or not, I love life because I have so many people I love and I'm grateful for that, I love life because I dream so much and would love to see those dreams turn into reality, I love life because there is a great free spirit inside me that needs to be unleashed. Do I need a better reasons than the ones I've listed to celebrate life? I don't think so.

   Everyone has their own reasons for loving life, what ever reason you have for celebrating life, it's a great reason and you should use it to not only live life, but celebrate it because we have so much to be grateful for. Life is precious, let's not waste it minding other people's business, judging others, being caught in the past and chasing materialism. Let's celebrate everything that life offers and be grateful for our many blessings.

True to yourself?

     We are often bombarded with different views and ideas of who we should be, these messages sadly comes from friends and family most of the time. We live in a world where we no longer care about being real.....or at least most people don't. It's hard to rise above the blues and be yourself, but at the end of the day, it's a choice that we all have to make. I know that I've struggled for a long time with being who I am. I only recently discovered the real me, The day you stop caring about other people's opinion of who you should be, and how you should act, is the day you will truly peel off that layer and become "YOU". I admire people who are different, people who know who they are, people like that would not get offended from an insult, or get an inflated ego, because they know who they are.

    I've discovered that the best way to find yourself, is to stop conforming to society's views of;

1. Beauty
2. How our bodies should look
3. What kind of a home we should have or own
4. The cars we drive
5. The clothes we wear
6. The amount of money in our accounts
7. How skinny/curvy we should be, and the list goes on.

  Like I said before, I struggled to find myself until I stopped and evaluated my life to see why I was stuck, I used to compere myself to other people and that can make you so miserable. I stopped doing that and started counting my blessings instead, I started enjoying the difference that I had from other people. Why fit in, if you were born to stand out? being different is amazing, it's your own unique mark, we should celebrate our differences, not avoid and sweep them under the rug. Be true to yourself, you were fearfully(Remarkably) and wonderfully made.