Happy Sunday everyone! Today, I woke up feeling an unbelievable sense of gratitude. Why, you may ask? Because I woke up to live another day. I know this may sound cheesy, but I try to wake up every morning reminding myself that this day, is another gift, and when you receive a gift the only right way to respond is with gratefulness. Even if you feel like you have absolutely nothing to look forward to today, step outside into nature. Look up at the sky, listen to the birds, find a body of water, absorb everything thats going on around you, and try to tell me that we aren't lucky. I believe a heightened awareness stems from getting outside. Louis Schwartzberg puts it perfectly. "Beauty and Seduction is nature's tools for survival, we protect what we fall in love with. It opens our hearts. We are a part of nature, not separate from it". To me this can be put towards all aspects of my life, people don't fight for what they don't love. There are sooo many world issues and if we all made the decision to try and understand that the choices we make today directly affect our future as a whole. You may think we aren't connected, but we are all connected by law. Just the same as the cells in our bodies are. There is a purpose for everything, even if we don't fully comprehend why. I try to live, consciously, aware of my surroundings and the impact I have on that situation, to the best of my abilities. I'll be the first to admit, I am learning everyday and I hope to continue to do so until the last day of my life. I find the easiest way to know you are making a difference in this world, is when you make the choice to not take the defence when someone or something challenges your belief systems. In their minds they are justified. This doesn't mean you backed down and agreed, you're just making the conscious effort to take yourself out of the situation and reassess it from an unbiased approach, to the best of your abilities. See the whole picture. It may shine a different light on the topic. View it as if we are all connected and you will very quickly start to live your life more authentically aware. I, for one, am not here to try to convince you one way or another. I just want to encourage you to love your life, understanding the larger picture that we are all connected, and having gratitude for the here and now will bring abundance to you life like you couldn't imagine.
TOP: Zara
PANTS: Zara
SWEATER: Urban Outfitters (old)