There are 3 truths: mine, yours, and the real truth.  It’s all about choice, specifically choice in how we interpret things.  We can choose how we spend our energy, choose light over dark so we can see something bigger.  The only thing we have control over is our own perception so make sure it’s expansive—don’t limit ourselves to what others tell us to see or to repeating the same day over and over again.  The universe is designed to expand and create, our minds and bodies do the same.  Anything we can conceive of in our minds we can make real just as we grow humans physically.  If there is something we want in this life, we need to go after it.  We aren’t meant to be the same and that is when people are their most dangerous: when they are caged.  Society likes it when we fit into the confines of someone else’s ideas so we can feed into their system.  The world likes it when we break free and become exactly who we are meant to be.  As someone who spent a lot of years doing everything she was told, I can tell you that is one of the most wasteful and stifling ways to live.  There is something inside that screams to be heard until we let it out. 

We can choose to honor that voice or we can stay where we are—the choice is always ours.  The thing is this: whatever we choose will become the truth for us.  That is why it’s so important to keep that perception open.  There are enough things that try to keep us within some sort of confine—don’t let our minds be one of those things.  As soon as some of the cracks start to reveal another way, as soon as we start to see that there is light on the other side—or even that we can emanate our own light—things look different.  Suddenly it isn’t so scary, it’s clear.  We learn to take chances we many not have previously, even if that simply means listening to ourselves more.  It can be a scary thing to take control of our lives because we are solely responsible for what happens to us.  But how liberating is that?  No matter what we choose, we can choose again.  I’d rather take the time to experience all I can instead of sitting on the sidelines.  As someone who has done the latter for far too long, experience beckons.  Don’t be afraid to answer the call.

The thing about truth is that we have the power to make it whatever we want it to be.  We are meant to keep an open mind, we are meant to create.  We wouldn’t want to read a book that’s only one page long, or 1000 pages saying the exact same thing.  Fill the pages with adventure and wonder and things we create, show boldness, and curiosity, compassion, love, understanding, and pure unbridled joy. When we are confused, frustrated, sad, uncertain, or any other thing, we have the power to turn the page and begin again.  I used to scoff at statements like there are no limits except the limitations of our minds because I could very easily point out things that were holding me back.  It took me a long time to realize that I was trying to fit into a box.  It was a box I was told to love and I was told was the answer to everything, how to stay safe and everything I should want was in there. How clever of the world to give us a gilded cage, call it freedom, and make us desire our own confines.  Use our light and unlock that door.  Create a new truth and make the world as big as we want it to be.  The choice is ours.