You don’t create space for yourself in anyone’s heart. The space already exists, or it doesn’t. All you do is, show a bit of your stuff. If the space’s present, you get ushered right in. Call it vibe, connection, energy, or whatever. If it’s there, it’ll latch on to you. You don’t have to go about carving out anything in anyone. You can let life do that for them.
(c) Mickey Kumra
No matter what the unknowns, the most assured way of achieving something, of achieving anything, you find, is to go after it, to try for it. So, make the decision to try. To keep trying. To employ as many different ways as it takes. For as long as it does. Make the decision to keep seeking newer paths. Better paths. To keep creating them. Make the decision to keep building. To keep giving whatever you can. Because there is peace in pursuit.
(c) Mickey Kumra
a. Don’t advertise your life to people. Don’t make it convenient for everyone to know everything about you. Few people deserve to know it all. Fewer deserve to have it served Continue reading Social Reminders #01
Maybe menstruation was never a bad thing. Maybe menstruating women were only advised rest. Maybe they were requested to limit social, religious, and other engagements only to keep them from getting further drained. Continue reading Shame Menstruation
More: When you are growing up, you go through a phase when you want to be demonstrate your self-reliance, when you want people to know you aren’t dependent upon your parents for every littlest of things. But this assertion of your self-dependence can cause some heartache to your parents. It can make them feel you Continue reading Daddy Needs Your Hand
When you share your honest reasons with people, often, they too find some reason to share in your ambitions.
“I’ve learned that both pain and privilege have the same and only two good purposes. Elevation and alleviation. Elevation of thought, and alleviation of suffering. Yours or another’s. I write for these purposes.”
(c) Mickey Kumra
If charity begins at home, compassion begins with self. People make mistakes. We make mistakes. Some big, some bigger. While we are able to call upon the wisdom to forgive others, we are unable to reach for the strength to forgive our own selves. We are able to move past the past with others, but not with Continue reading Forgive The Past You
In some people, this thought might rouse resistance at first. But allow it time to make its way into you. :) At the same time, it might be helpful to look at this other piece, Heal Slow.
“Sometimes the heart does move on. It’s the head that needs convincing.”
(c) Mickey Kumra
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