A challenge for 2010, are you game?

As we get older, the loads on our backs get heavier. We walk through life failing to enjoy what we have and spend more time being fearful rather then enjoying the right nows.

The one and biggest thing I struggled with while i was away in Africa was how it was soo easy for everyone there to just live and enjoy. They never looked or focused on what they didn't have or the hurt that they had gone through all they did was just LIVE. Meanwhile here i was full of eternal blessings and yet, on most days struggled to wake up smiling.

And while we wake up every morning and walk through life living, when and how often do we ever get up out of bed in the morning and think, Wow i am so lucky to be alive today? I am so lucky to be able to hug my mom and dad today? I am so lucky that I have a job that pays my bills as well as the finer things in life? And so on..

We just don't do these kinds of things and simply because we all build our lives on wants. Life will never be perfect until we lose those last 10 pounds, fall in love, buy that car or so on. It never matters how perfect things could seem, because we have just been trained to need and want more then what we have. And its those needs and wants that stop us from living and feeling like everything on its own is just perfect today and for that we should smile.

Since I have been back and even while I was there, i learnt to live the way TRUE AFRICANS do, full of zest, life and appreciation of everything that I have. I went from being the girl full of complaints to being the girl that is now like its not perfect, but its good for now and I am happy with right now...and for 2010 and the decade ahead thats all i wish to continue to do ...ENJOY, be happy and appreciate even when the darkest clouds have taken over my life and for right now thats what i wish for all of you.

Let life be your guide and fear be the enemy that u chose to never associate with, heres to waking up smiling for everyday that we have in 2010, just try it, you may be surprised with how addicting the feeling actually is.

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-A