You Are In Control. Really, You Are!

I saw this saying and then I found this awesome picture of a surfer and started playing with a program to create this image. haha I'm pretty proud of myself at the moment! (yes, I'm sure you all knew how to do this years ago and are in disbelief that I am so far behind the times hahaha, its ok, I know now~~smiles).  So, now that I know how to do that, I will take and utilize original photos and messages as I really don't like to copy other people's stuff but like true originality and creativity.  So this is the feeling I am surfing right now~~originality and creativity. I have always been both of those things I think even though its hard to find true originality with so much out there for us to see in a social media dominated world.  However, yes, I do still have original thoughts and hopefully something to say that will encourage, inspire, or at least let you know that you are not alone in this world, and that someone understands.  Feelings can overwhelm and overpower you if you let them~and trust me, I know how easy it is to let that happen.  We have to take control though and make choices about what feelings we will allow or that particular "wave" will take us under.  I have been there many MANY, did I say MANY? times and have felt like I was drowning as those waves washed over me, pulled me under and I found myself no longer in control and struggling to even breathe. I don't like not being in control! And it is harder to get our feet back on solid ground again! What we have to do is stop~breathe~disconnect sometimes~ then either walk away from that emotion or situation or look at it again with a different perspective. CHOOSE to be in control of those feelings. I have to remind myself (sometimes out loud lol) that 99% of the time, when I do that and I let those initial feelings subside, things then look totally different and did not warrant the wave of emotion that first began to rise up. It is a battle within our minds. But know this~YOU are still in control if you choose to be! So my thought for today is choose the awesome waves to surf. Choose happy, fulfilling, positive, uplifting waves. And the more you do that, you will find that you are able to master bigger, tougher waves~pretty soon, you'll be riding the tubes! So hang ten! ;) I choose an original, creative life today.