The hard things …

No one likes to hear “this is good for you,” especially when it comes to doing things that are unpleasant.  Truthfully, I’ve avoided doing tough things most of my life because hiding behind my fear of failure had always seemed easier than the thought of trying and potentially failing.

Well, that’s until I met my friend Maggie, who is the owner of a local inclusive community-oriented yoga studio where I teach and practice.  She helped shed light on the fact that I tended to avoid facing uncomfortable things, and that in doing so I was actually ignoring all the lessons life was trying to teach me.  Because in truth, the uncomfortable things are the exact things that were trying to help me grow, so if I kept “looking the other way,” it would be impossible for me to become the person I was made to be.

I don’t really want to just get through the hours, the minutes of each day.  I want to embrace life fully.  At the end of this journey, I want all the hopes that live inside of my heart to have seen the sunlight, because I believe those hopes are linked to the things I agreed to do when I came here.

So, if it’s true that “the hard things build the foundation for the good things to grow” … well, I guess I’d better start meeting the hard, uncomfortable situations with boxing gloves, ‘cause I sure am ready for “all of the beauty that awaits [me] on the other side.”