I started this life running…
I wanted to escape and flee away from the torment that surrounded me and caused so many negative thoughts to enter my mind. I couldn’t control it and it made me feel helpless. I was a child after all, I needed someone to look out for me and when there was no one that could give me what I truly needed I separated myself from the world.
I know I am blessed in many ways because of this but in a lot of ways it caused me to stay in survival mode even after everything was good, but I couldn’t see it. I had too much pain and struggle that life threw me into as a helpless child that I stopped standing still and chose to stay in flight mode.
I closed off from the people around me and I trusted in only myself because to me I could always count on myself to make it happen and I did. I overcame so much and yes many helped along the way but I was so blind I couldn’t see it, or even appreciate it and deep down I never felt like I truly deserved it. It was not something I was used to.
I look back on my life now and I stopped running. Some where a long the way I said, “NO MORE!” and I stopped pleasing and stopped searching and stopped giving my heart away to just anyone and trusted in myself and the universe to guide me.
I stand now, still. So peaceful.
As a child I used to ask the angels for peace and quiet, it was always so loud, so much fighting, so much anger and so much abuse followed me. Not to mention when my seizures began and went unnoticed for many years I needed peace so badly and now. After I made the decision to slow down and let the pieces fall into place and stopped trying to control the situation in fear of being hurt or mistreated I have received what I needed. I have peace and I have hope and I have the time I need to heal and I embrace it. Yes every day will always be special to me because with my condition any day could be my last but I view it differently now.
Tomorrow may not be promised but today is and I will make it count. Every moment because I have achieved so much that I wanted to, despite what others said I never would, I went above and beyond it and continue to grow and learn.
This is a gift. This is a blessing and I am going to enjoy this new found meaning and this new out look on life and with it I will help others. With it I will inspire others to embrace their life, their strength and stop running from what isn’t chasing you. Once you realise nothing is behind you, you will find yourself in a clearing and just look at that view. Take it in.
There are great things in the rise I believe and this is just the beginning because you know what.
“There is so much more I want to achieve and experience.”
I may not be a runner anymore… but I am a flyer.
Watching from above like an eagle and taking in everything.
Stop running 🙂




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