The Bigger Picture

Why is it that people choose to live in darkness, and sadness, in lonliness and in pain. Why is it that the world has chosen war over peace and hatred over love. It just seems so basic and so simple to embrace love,.. almost like a no brainer, yet very few choose the path of least resistance. LOVE
I really am perplexed and saddened by the state of mankind. I feel it was both a blessing and a curse that I have had the ability from a very young age to see the 'BIGGER PICTURE' to know that for each action, there is a reaction. What I do today affects my tomorrow. -- This understanding really kinda sucked in my youth, mainly because I could never really fully engage in things that were 'naughty' because I knew what I was doing was wrong and there would be a consequence sooner or later. There were plenty.
I now see people who are hurting, broken, lost and empty. Relationships coming to an end like the plague are leaving people shattered and wounded, but rather than healing and restoring themselves, the average person seeks refuge in another wounded soul and recreates all the same dysfunctions yet again to an eventual similar ending.
I watch, I shake my head and feel exhausted at times at the breath I feel I sometimes waste, trying to encourage people to heal themselves, find themselves and love themselves. To choose forgiveness and accept the things they cannot change. -- I don't want to sound cocky or as though I know it all, I know that sometimes choosing this path is hard, but I was once told by my mentor. 'You can choose to walk the road that is hard, but will eventually become easy, or you can walk the road that is easy, but that road will eventually become hard"
The bigger picture, is seeing beyond what is before you in the present moment. More often than not, it is a difficult thing to do, especially when it hurts. If you understand that forgiveness is a gift you give yourself, and not the person whom you are forgiving, I find forgiveness becomes easier. Often the person you are forgiving may not even deserve your forgiveness. Choose to do so for yourself.
The biggest message I learned from the Dalai Lama was COMPASSION. In all things, in all situations. Compassion. Its a daily test for me, how I will react to people in all sorts of situations. It most definately isn't an easy one, but I have reaped some amazing benefits from my conscious efforts to choose love and in seeing and recognizing the bigger picture.

Success~

Feeling Oh so inspired, I am going to attempt to write another blog. I am slightly couch ridden

due to a surgery I got for a new pair of..*ahem*..slippers. So as I sit here recovering, what better to do, than sit here and write.

I mentioned in the first blog that I had written, produced and directed a play. This play is called 'Beneath the Surface'. I am so pleased and feel so accomplished to have been able to pull something like this out of my hat and get it up in the air. Through Beneath the Surface, I was able to launch my company imagi'Nation and have great hope and vision in the possibilities to come. My dream with imagi'Nation is to use the Arts as a means of Healing. 

Beneath the Surface was a story inspired by a young girl named Chasity, who took her life at age 14. The story uncovers all facets unseen by those in depression and despair. It reveals the story behind the story that sometimes never gets looked at, revealing the bigger picture.

I don't see myself creating fluff... I see myself changing lives... and creating pieces that invoke change!

So here is to another year of inspiration and success. Here is to creating a movement of life and love.

I will do my best to document it and keep tabs on all the greatness I behold.

The Beginning and Karma

Hello Blog World.
It has been a long while since I have had a blog, facebook seemed to swallow up the masses with the purpose of 'connecting' however seemingly it has done quite the opposite. I figured it was time to share feelings again, and not through a status update, but through posts and stories. Poetry and writings, that come straight from the heart.
In blog land I am not worried if I have people 'liking' my blog, or even reading it for that matter. Its more of an outlet for my creativity,.. somewhat like a journal.

This year has been a fantastic year, I missed the opportunity to capture all of it in diary/blog form. Many fantastic events have taken place, from meeting the Dalai Lama to Writing/Producing and Directing a play about Suicide and Suicide Prevention and taking it on the road with 12 people. I have fallen in love, and someone is in love with me. I have quit smoking and can count on one hand how many glasses of wine I have had all year. I recently acquired a lovely set of *ahem*...... slippers ;)

I am a happy woman. I feel through the ups and downs of the past and the pain I have endured, from an unhappy marriage, a motionless career, and illness that won't go away,. that I have stepped up in the world. I believe in KARMA. I believe it because I practiced it in all I went through. I wanted to teach my kids love and forgiveness. I never spoke ill of their father nor did I take him to the cleaners to prove a point. I loved. Through the things that most people would choose hate, I chose the higher road. It wasn't easy, but I knew in the end, that KARMA would eventually do as Karma does. This year is living proof of that.

So now I begin again. Documenting my imagination's creations. (imagi'Nation is also the name of the company I launched this year with my play) Life is good, and it would be a shame to not have note of it somewhere.


over and out...