Rose-Colored Glasses

Hard days pass and good ones do too, It all comes down to perceptive and views. Where thoughts are meant to be challenged, feelings are meant to be examined and behaviors are meant to be changed. When the hard days come again, you feel it like a sudden pang in your chest, coming from nowhere. It’s so painful it feels as if your world cannot go on, ending so quick and sudden. You feel the need to grasp the chest because the heart lay there cold and abandoned.

We’re told the heart is protected by the rib cage, that it is stuck in lockdown where it will be safe. But my body was attacked by a foreign army that shattered the rib cage, tore my heart, and gutted my lungs making it harder than ever to breathe. This sensation, where the word hopelessness doesn’t even begin to describe the type of feeling is gashed again with another destructive army. So I lay there cold, thinking about my life and all my mistakes, all the challenges I have failed and all the moments I wished I had the courage to escape

Though then I think of all the things I’m grateful for, all the good things in my life. Miraculously, I feel my body begin to come back to life. I think harder and harder, challenge my core beliefs, soon enough I’m up and back to being me. Yet a new kind of me, a me that’s ready to shift everything as I see it. I’m ready to challenge my thoughts, examine my feelings and change my behavior.

With just a slight shift in perspective one’s whole world can change. It’s not the world that’s changing, that part is staying the same, it’s the mind that needed a little push. The saying, “Mind over matter” has never been so true. You choose how you live your life, no-one can do that for you.

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So without further ado, I present the new you, a you that is willing to adapt to change and start again because that is a healthy virtue. Getting knocked to the ground like you did so many times before hurts, but no-one said it would be easy, they just said it would be worth it. Your day will come when there will be more smiles than tears, or more happy tears than sad ones. Your moment will arise when you don’t look at some parts of your life like a burden. Where challenges and events that test you will be welcomed because you don’t have to do it every day and it’s good to have those once in a while.

Life with a new perspective will change who you are inside and your world on the outside. Take a pair of rose colored glasses and see in a new light, the world as you know it will change right before your eyes. Like magic you’ll be able to see and understand what you couldn’t before. You’ll see where you have cracks in your walls and fix them in order so that you can restore. Boundaries will be put out so no one will be able to overstep because without a clear line one can’t know where the off-limit marker is. Especially if you yourself don’t know where your line is, how can you expect others to know?

Hard days pass and good ones do too, everything comes down to the frame of mind and the attitude. Where life won’t get easier if one can’t see the good. There’s always something wholesome, look a little closer or look a little harder and you will eventually find that the world is not all bad nor is it all good. It’s not black and white, color is there all of the time. Put on those rose colored glasses and you’ll understand why.