Beauty from Ashes

Once in a while, when you think you have everything all figured out, life throws you a major curve ball. This never happens when you are prepared for it, never when you have your game face on. The curve ball that I am talking about happens when you least expect it.

During these trials of life you realize so much about your personal world. Your personal bubble that you thought you knew backwards and forwards suddenly becomes a brand new land to explore. The once thought “perfect” reality wasn’t really real at all, and it was far from “perfect”. You were blinded by the shiny surface of a fountain filled with just enough beauty to trick you.

You realize that you settled. You settled for something less than you deserve and in turn you received even less than what you settled for to begin with. You gave up your dreams and aspirations out of desperation to hold onto the unhappiness cleverly draped in superficiality.

The beauty of life is that you always get a second chance. A new beginning can start this very moment. Good things fall apart so that better things can come together. Take control of your life, don’t let life control you. Life may have thrown me a nasty curveball…but I just knocked one out of the park. Me-1, Life-0.