Blog 13: Love Where You Are

There’s this misconception about how you always have to know your next step or what you want to achieve. Recently I’ve started to realize that I am constantly stuck in this place, in between my future and my past and I'm not sure which one I want more. Most of the time, part of me just wants to throw myself into the future and yet the other part wants me to hurl myself into my past. The issue with this is that I have not yet registered where I am currently. In order to reach where I desire to be in the future, I need to accept and love where I am momentarily. We squander our current time obsessing over who and what we want to remodel ourselves into, which has allowed us to become lost in the process. We have a right to become acquainted with this self. I keep asking myself who I desire to be when I don't yet fully understand who I am as of right now. I haven't given myself enough time to really appreciate myself, my passions, my mind, etc. Therefore I cannot claim that I adore where I am or this version of me, given how little I know about myself. The desire for a more positive experience, for a different life/version of who you are personally is itself a negative experience. The acceptance of one's negative experience or being at this current moment is itself a positive experience. Life becomes peaceful when you stop dwelling on the past, about what could have been or what you could have done differently. It’s important to focus on now. Stop feeling embarrassed or ashamed about the things that make you happy and stop comparing yourself/your life to anybody else’s, you are beautiful and so is where you’re at. You mustn’t waste your time looking for something else, something better, something that has already run its course. It’s time to put yourself first. Love where you are. Appreciate where you’re at and who you’ve become. And never take this for granted, because you don’t know when this phase of your life will end. Don’t allow yourself to miss another second of it. We are sent exactly what we are ready for at the exact time we need it in our lives. Everything whether it’s in the past, present, or in the future will be okay. I think it’s time to love where we are.