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I LIKE WHO I'M BECOMING


I am not the person I was a year ago, nor several months ago, even a week ago or a day ago. Like life and time I am constantly evolving, changing as my soul experiences everything in an hourglass of passion and depression, hope and despair, love and loathing, progress and stagnation. Everything that I see, hear, taste, smell, and do has an impact no matter how small or big, whether I realize it or not, and affects how I ultimately perceive the world, myself, and my position in it.

Constant evolution suggests constant PROGRESS, BECOMING BETTER, leaving behind the shell of who I was, accepting and embracing and stepping into the new, the unknown future and all it holds for me. There is no fear of what is to come, for I have something far greater alongside all the weapons I need to take stance against anything and all who might come against me, knowing that He will ALWAYS have my back, that everything I go through has PURPOSE.

Is there pain? Yes. Is there sorrow? Yes. Is there darkness? Yes. But there is also joy and happiness and light, and it is THOSE things that my soul holds on for, the glimpse of them that hope has afforded me, the woman that I will be at the end of it all, who I am becoming for the one I am being created FOR. There can be no triumph without struggle, no strength without experiencing weakness, no life without the exchange of death, and I have struggled in and with my weakness, dying to be reborn into the life I was MEANT to live.

I am a different creature than I once was. I am changed in ways I never thought I would be. I see things I never thought I would see. I hold dreams I never thought I would ever care for. I have allowed the hard shell of the rock island that I was to be penetrated, a crumbling of the wall that once kept the world at bay and me safe inside, eroding as slowly I step into the light, trembling as I share my soul with the world I stayed aloof from for a lifetime, a shy emergence of a rare softness and vulnerability peeking out from the “machine”.

I am becoming something more than I ever imagined. I am becoming all that I was intended to be. Instead of heaviness there is lightness in my soul, a quiet calm even as there blows a maelstrom, because I know that I am growing into my destiny. I am growing into “my own”, a woman with complete confidence in herself and her abilities and place in the world, at peace with her heart and soul and the desires no longer hidden there. I know some don’t approve of my choices or like the path I have embarked on, but this is MY life, not theirs, and I LIKE who I’m becoming and I WELCOME it.

© Rosie Chee

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SOUL JOURNEY


Our lifetime is made up of many journeys. Journeys that make and break us, shape and mould us, past and present determining what we shall become in the future, the most important of all that of our soul, the path to spiritual enlightenment, the metamorphosis of our innermost core as we traverse the journeys of life. Each journey we take in the physical has spiritual ramifications and often affect us far more than what the world can see, turning our souls inside out, upside down, twisting and contorting it until we are not sure we will ever be able to recognize ourselves when we come out the other side of the purging fire.


Each journey we take and every person we cross paths with leaves a footprint on our soul, teaching us valuable lessons and to show us how significant we are in the fabric of the universe. Love and loss, success and tragedy, ecstasy and pain, are all tools of the world to touch us, to create the destiny of our souls, the tumultuous journey that will leave us tempered like the rarest and most beautiful of diamonds, born of the greatest pressure and heat, crushed beyond life itself and shining forth a brilliant light from an indomitable spirit.


With strength and purity of heart we will survive anything, our soul’s journey one that is never-ending, each step one step closer to becoming the highest being and ultimate version of us that we can aspire to.


© Rosie Chee​

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YOUR JOURNEY


Your life is YOUR life. Your Journey is YOUR journey. You are YOUR competition. You are the ONLY one who knows exactly what is going on with YOU.


Never mind what anyone else’s life is like - concentrate on your OWN. Everyone has their issues - trials and triumphs - but you need only concern yourself with your OWN. You may feel tempted to interject your opinion in another’s life - look instead to your OWN and see what you can scrutinize. There is no one else making the decisions in YOUR life - only YOU, so do not look to anyone else, because it is not their role to play.


Only YOU can walk your journey in life. You are not given what you are so that you can COMPARE it to another, but so that you can GROW and BECOME what you are MEANT to be. The challenges you face along the way, every experience you go through, are all intended so that you LEARN and ultimately to CREATE A BETTER YOU.


When you focus on making YOURSELF better, then you help OTHERS become better. The sum of your life experiences makes you UNIQUE, gives you something no one else has, so that you can USE those experiences to hold OUT a helping hand to others who may have or be experiencing a similar situation. You are meant to SHARE NOT COMPARE. Life is meant to be walked through WITH others, not AGAINST them.


© Rosie Chee

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YOUR LIGHT

There’s a certain joy in knowing that you are able to make someone smile or shine a little bit of light in their darkness, to be able to make a difference no matter how small or insignificant it might seem in another’s life. There’s something that happens in one’s soul when they “feel” a glow in another and know that they have “helped” with it. There’s a spark that can be “relit” when we “give” of ourselves when we have little left to give, simply because in the unselfish act of desiring happiness for another, there is something that still has hope and can be “revived” to life within us.


Not everyone will ever experience that joy or change or spark, because not everyone is “built” the same. But those that do, acknowledged or not, understand and continue to strive to make a difference regardless of the darkness they might be battling or the storms they themselves traverse through, for the greatest blessings in life are often those times when we find ourselves challenged the most. For on the flipside of “death’s” coin is life, as death is not the end nor is it final, and although everything done cannot be undone, it can be reworked and “remade” into something else entirely.


© Rosie Chee

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Are you ready to LEAP into 2016? Leave the past behind, truly and completely, taking with it only yourself and the lessons you have learned and the growth you have made over 2015. Give yourself permission to openly and willingly embrace the ongoing journey of evolutionary and enlightened change that your awakened soul has traversed, striving higher and further than ever, determining that if 2015 was the year of "infinite possibilities", 2016 is going to be the year of "making reality" the possibilities you want and desire. Let yourself FLY!

© 2015 Rosie Chee

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HERE, NOW

Everyone has a past. I accept that. What I truly care about is who you are and where you are going NOW, your dreams and aspirations, evolution and growth. THAT'S what interests me. The here, now, what lies ahead and moving FORWARD. ALWAYS moving forward.


© 2015 Rosie Chee

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SHATTER


Sometimes shattering who we were is the only way to discover who we truly are and what we are capable of. It's not just about being destroyed, but about seeing the beauty in the destruction, embracing the fall and unconsciously creating ourselves so that when we hit the bottom there is no doubt that what will be rebuilt will be nothing like what was. Even if not every shattered piece is part of the new creation and those that are form different art because of how they now fit together, what eventually stands, though it might be unrecognizable to some, will be and is nothing but truth, stronger despite vulnerability, beauty in the broken, light cast through the cracks, illuminating the soul inside. Evolution. Art. Inspired.


© 2015 Rosie Chee

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EXPERIENCE

Sometimes that's what makes us strong: The experiences we never foresaw, never wanted, or those born of our own decisions. Irony in that what we might have determined to never happen to us did and affected us on so many levels we will never be able to be the same again. In itself not a bad thing, for we should always be seeking to evolve and become better.

© 2015 Rosie Chee

"Feel The Moment" by R. M. Drake, published in "Black Butterfly"

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UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Under construction.

Always.

Because it's all about

Becoming better,

being a brighter light,

having a deeper heart,

awakening the soul

to live

its most enlightened life;

teacher, healer, philosopher, leader;

to make the most difference

For others

as it journeys

towards its ultimate

Evolution

Of self.
 
© 2015 Rosie Chee

 

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LIVING FLAME

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.” – 2 Corinthians 5:17

Sometimes it takes more than once; multiple “lifetimes” to create the best version of self that can possibly be, even as we continue growing and evolving with each “resurrection”. Every experience contributes to the being we are and become, but not everything is necessary to be taken “with” us into the “new” and there come times in our lives when we must leave behind all that was for all that will and could be. We must “release” the old so that the “new” can live in victory.

As a phoenix rises from the ashes of its own flames, having grown through burning “hell”, purified by heat and pressure like a diamond, so must and do we. Everything cold and dead or that no longer serves purpose in our lives with forward progression and momentum must be removed and let go of, the fire within that burns so bright separating itself from anything that would drag it down or hold it back from burning brighter and flying higher.

Find peace with your past, but let it shatter far beneath you as you rise on fiery wings to soar above the ocean, through the heavens, in the midnight sky, as another glowing flame spreading light in the darkness. Let everything ice burn and melt away with the heat of the passion and life that flickers and roars for freedom, and hold nothing back from the heat. Let the cold, hard prison that once “captured” you break as the fire burns it from the inside out, the world seeing the soul inside rise and shine.

Everything of “old” has been transformed; weakness become strength, with passion and heart renewed. The “new” has different feeling than what was, even if there are similarities in appearance, for the inner change, the evolution of soul, the spark that lights the fire now was created from the “death” of what “made” the new, the flames clean and bold and free from the dust and smoke of yesterday.  Burn as you were always meant to, a living flame, as an example.

© 2015 Rosie Chee

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SHINE YOUR LIGHT

Sometimes we forget that there are things we bring to the world that no one else can, ever has or ever will be able to. It is an honour and a privilege to simply be YOU. We all have flaws and weaknesses, but we need to stop seeing them as such, because those can be part of what “makes” us and the “whole” vision of “beauty” or “amazing” that is perceived and we should see them they are – unique quirks and scars that have given us valuable lessons we can use to help others. We need to NOT focus on flaws and weaknesses and berating ourselves for having them, but on what is our love and PASSION and celebrate the fact that no matter what has happened to us in life, we are STILL here and breathing and determined to make a difference.

Sometimes the people you see have been through so much more than you know, so much more than ever be perceived, so much more building them from the inside out. There is a story for every individual, each different but no less precious. Even in the dark there is a light inside every one of us and it is that light that the world needs – to know that there is hope and redemption, that every darkness is merely a process of life, to test us and make us stronger, better equip us into becoming the best that we can be, whether we desire the experience or not. Even the experiences resulting as consequence of our own stubborn choices, the fairytales that revealed themselves as nightmares, the happiness that proved to be built on illusions – all of that “gave” us something and was vital to our “becoming”.

Sometimes we forget that the deepest darkness is required for the brightest lights to shine, for the lights to glimmer forth and truly be seen for what they are. The deepest depths are only “yardsticks” for the courage of souls in picking themselves up after falling, determined to rise and soaring higher than ever, new wind beneath wings that have been broken but restored stronger than before. So never be ashamed of having been broken, of scars, of “being human”, for it is those very things that “define” who you are and what you become in the story of your “evolution”, and it is those very things that create or reveal the true light that you are. Never forget that every soul needs a light – you never know when YOURS will be the one that makes the difference for another.

© 2015 Rosie Chee

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WATER & FIRE

Water and fire are both powerful elements. Some might say they are “opposites”; whereas others could argue that they both exist as “complements”, since water can kill fire, but fire can also heat water so much that it evaporates, or even, when frozen, become free flowing.

Both water and fire have fluid motion. In their “natural elements” they move seamlessly, easily, water spreading as far as oceans can reach and further, fire dancing to its own heart and beat with little thought to how it travels or is perceived.

We should be both. Carry elements of both “character” in our soul: Desiring to be able to touch as many and as much as possible, to create and inspire as much change and difference as possible; conscious and unconscious thought becoming awareness in the lives of those around us, as it is in self.

Two “beings” inside a single soul; two “faces”; two sides; both every much a part of that soul as the other, although not always perceived the same or by everyone observing such soul. Smooth and as easy as water gliding through life or as ferocious and fiery as fire burning defiantly.

Both water and fire, both graceful in their own different way, beautiful in the way that each can only be, existing not because they have been given permission, but because they “are”. Cold and hot they “live” and change, “evolving” depending on their environment, but always staying true to their essential nature.

© 2015 Rosie Chee

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LOOK FORWARD

“Change is good.” So said someone dear to me today. And they are 100% right. Change IS good. And it IS time for change.

Time to change not just the way we look, but HOW we look and WHY. Time to change the mindsets that “guide” and “drive” us. Time to change the angle of perception we have on and in the world. Time to change the very nature and core of our health and wellbeing.

Change is not always instant and my mindsets have been challenged as I’ve asked myself some hard questions over the last few weeks. Everything though, ultimately comes together, to create something that sometimes seems “overnight”.

The wonderings, pondering, musings, have all allowed the door to the past to be completely shut, all the locks changed and the keys thrown over cliffs no one would dare venture over to get. And that’s the way it SHOULD be. Because life is all about living it FORWARD.

There is so much to look forward TO. Mind refreshed and being renewed. Eyes “turning” and being refocused. Soul quieter and being restored. Prepared and making changes, moving life FORWARD.

© 2015 Rosie Chee

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THE MAGIC OF BEGINNINGS

It’s the dawn of a new year, a new era, a new age. It’s the time for a fresh start, a clean slate, a new opportunity, a BEGINNING. It’s the moment to let go of everything that has gone before, accepting that it has moulded you in experience to be part of your testimony, but that it no longer has any power over you or in your life; no strongholds that it can hide in to ambush you at a later date. It’s the day that you EMBRACE the destiny that awaits you.

Your soul knows when it’s time, the start of a new year or not. It may have known for a while and yet you still found it clinging to remnants past, but now it’s time to walk AWAY from all that; everything that has caused destruction and despair and tears. It’s time to step into something NEW, full of opportunity and the promise of dreams, with renewed hope for a wish your heart has long held onto, the glimpse of your reality a dream no longer so far out of reach.

You KNOW and your soul rejoices, flooding final healing through your being much as the ocean washes over the shore and leaves the sand smooth and unbroken. The light that spreads through your essence is from the lifting of the darkness of everything that was “tainting” your soul - the burdens you took on that you should never have, the hurts that wounded you far more than you ever would admit, the toxic people you had let into your life - forgiving yourself and releasing it all.

TRUST your soul, those whispers in its depths, and know that it only wants what is best for you, instinctively already knowing what you need and what must happen for it to be. There is a magic in your soul that wants to be let out, given life with your first breaths of the new dawn and the aspirations that whirl inside your mind. Every “new” beginning is another evolution of your soul, one step closer to the ULTIMATE you, even as you always seek to become better and never should want to stop “becoming”.

© Rosie Chee

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WHO YOU ARE

There are so many people willing to tell you who they think you should be and what they think you should do. IGNORE them. The ONLY person you should be listening to when it comes to who to be is YOU. YOU are the one who lives with your SOUL. YOU are the one who has to live YOUR life. YOU are the one who has to like who YOU are. Because YOU are the one who has to live with you ALL the time and be ABLE to.

In this day and age, being “different” is either sin or celebrated, hated or adored, as “fads” come and go and society changes on a whim. Regardless, who you ARE is NOT a “fad”, and unlike fashion, which “trends”, with often only the “highest” in society showcasing it, YOU are ALWAYS “in style” and NO one else will EVER be able to “be” you, no matter how hard they might try to, once they see you and realize just HOW special and precious your “one-of-a-kind” is.

You are “YOU”. Simply “YOU”. There is no other “label”; no way to describe you aside, because there are no words that can explain the depths and facets of the ever evolving creature that you are. One can only understand once they have known you, a privilege rare few have ever truly been allowed, but that more in the future will be given the chance to, albeit an opportunity still only “offered” a special select, because, even though the world now knows “of” you, you are careful whom you “share” yourself with.

The world will call you many things. Crazy. Mad. Genius. Dreamer. Weird. Strange. Different. You should be FLATTERED. You stand OUT. Everything the world “calls” you because you are YOU is what makes you IRREPLACEABLE. Everything about you, from your flaws to your quirks to your mind to your heart and soul, is BEAUTIFUL. And it is the greatest PRIVILEGE in the world to “simply be you”; as you are, without requiring explanation. Accept it. Embrace it. Love it. Be it. Be YOU.

© 2015 Rosie Chee

 

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TAKE THE RISK

NOT taking the risk is a risk in itself - the one of forever regret and wondering "what if?", the "could have" beens and the possibility of missing out on something amazing beyond your wildest imaginings. TAKING the risk has its own dangers - chance of rejection, disappointment and failure, with the possibility of utter destruction from allowing vulnerability in opening your heart and putting yourself on the line. And while NOT taking the risk might give you a false sense of "safety", the courage from TAKING the risk creates the most growth in a soul, causes evolution and forward momentum regardless of the immediate outcome, for whatever happens can only make one dig deeper and ask more of themselves, so that they become better than they ever were. Taking the risk might seem daunting and risk losing everything for something that might only be a "dream", but truly NOT taking the risk means risking losing everything for nothing, for when you TAKE the risk, the greatest "rewards" are in the JOURNEY, a "transformation" and evolution of soul that is truly priceless.

© 2015 Rosie Chee

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WORK IN PROGRESS

EVERY day is a day for self-improvement, betterment of not just mind and soul, but body as well. Every day we can build ON the one before, make progress, continuing FORWARD. Momentum NEVER stops, seeking only to keep moving, striding, running, leaping, as if there were no end and this journey endless.

You see where you are now. Look in the mirror and take note of the “rough sketch” you have to work from, the “base” that you have to mould with. Envision the CHANGES you want to make, seeing them as if they were real right now and know that they WILL be.

Tighten up the NUTRITION. Work WITH your body, not the self-sabotage you were doing before. NOURISH it. Remember that the “cleaner” your food, the better you will feel, for your body will function more smoothly on what it operates BEST on.

Drill your body through training like you were preparing for WAR. Treat it like a machine. Train it like an athlete. You want not just aesthetics, but FUNCTION as well, for there is little use in simply “looking pretty” when it comes to “real life”.

Know your “limits”, but do not let them stop you. Know them, so you know what to push PAST. Recovery is important, but timing is everything. Test yourself. In your mind, set NO boundaries, NO limits, so that you can surpass anything and everything you might ever have thought you could or would.

YOU are a “Work in Progress”, a masterpiece being crafted in your own unique and special design. YOU are in control of how quickly you progress and where, so take ACCOUNTABILITY for your work. And because it is your OWN, let no one tell you what it should “be”, but yourself. You are doing this for YOU.

© 2015 Rosie Chee

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MOVE FORWARD

There are many people who have been and are part of our lives; some remain, but many are no longer. Still, there are those who linger on the outskirts, whom we know we should let go of and yet we cling to some memory of them, true or not.

It’s time to LET GO. It’s time to RELEASE any hold another soul has on your own and understand that no matter how much they mean or meant to you, they canNOT be that any longer. It is time to move FORWARD and you can only do that when you accept that your future is NOT your past.

EVERY person in our lives is a reason, season, or lifetime. It is time to acknowledge the reasons and to let the seasons pass, so that the lifetimes can flourish in mutual companionship. Thank those who taught you valuable lessons, ones that no one else could have made you learn, simply for the reason that no one else was a part of your life in the way you allowed them to be. Learn to love the seasons and understand that for a complete and full life ALL seasons must be experienced, not just either summer or winter.

Reason or season, those souls that have touched your own are no less “special” than the lifetimes; it just means that not everyone is meant to be a continuing part of your life story. Yet the time spent with you on your journey created its own memories, so cherish and remember them for what they were, instead of regretting what they could or “should” have been.

Every person in our lives plays a role in the evolution of our soul and being. Some spread darkness, only so others can show us the light. Some cause destruction, allowing others to instil hope. Some use and abuse and leave little left when they are done, making those that we come to understand truly love us all the more precious and appreciated. Every person builds upon the foundation of a constant “work in progress”.

All those who no longer have a role in our world we need to let go of gracefully, thankful for the blessing in having known them, hopeful that we in turn were able to be a valuable part of THEIR personal growth and a part of their journey they can and will never forget.

© 2014 Rosie Chee

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METAMORPHOSIS

Metamorphosis can be a painful process, “trial by fire” with immense destruction and not everyone “survives” the process. Those that do are completely different creatures than those who were untouched by the flames; they who emerge from the fire have a new quality about them, the “difference” noticeable to all those who know them. There is a new strength that resonates beauty, scars that tell stories others will be inspired by, with a change in aura that reflects a deeper sense of self and awareness.

Sometimes the creature that emerges “looks” completely different to the one known in the lifetime passed. The fire often forges a new kind of creature, for everything not strong enough is burnt in the flames and that which is true pressured like a rough diamond, so that what has long been kept hidden might be revealed to the world. There is “magic” in metamorphosis and even though the creature that emerges from the flames is “new”, it is still the “same”, for the soul is still of the “old”, albeit having undergone its own transformation as it faces itself, choosing what to discard and keep.

Metamorphosis is often necessary, in retrospect a blessing to help bring us “into our own”, so that we might “see” life for what it truly is and understand the miracle of everything; that we too are such a miracle in the world and can be a source of light and inspiration regardless of our past. What we become might be something “strange” to others, even as it is beautiful, and many may dislike the change because it is not something they can fathom, but ignore them and let the “new you” follow the path that became so clear in the fire, so that you might fulfil the purpose resting on your soul.

Embrace the change and test the wings you have been given. There is “magic” inside you that was always intended to be released and the fire has peeled away the “fear” that kept it locked up tight, a new softness in the willingness to let your vulnerability be seen, a multitude of feelings and emotion escaping as you “step into the new”. The time of the past has passed and is no more; let it die with the fire and let the “new life” discovered in your soul be the one that you live and love, as you let yourself love and live.

© 2014 Rosie Chee

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JUST BE BETTER

It’s not about being better than anyone ELSE. It’s about being a better YOU. It’s about being better than you were the DAY before, the HOUR before, the MINUTE before. It’s about striving for CONSTANT IMPROVEMENT IN YOURSELF.

Everything done should have a PURPOSE. That purpose should provide a step not only towards your goals and dreams, but in making you into the person you were MEANT to be. And the person you are meant to be is an ULTIMATE version of you; a constant journey of BECOMING BETTER.

It doesn’t matter what anyone else is doing. It doesn’t matter what anyone else looks like. It doesn’t matter what anyone else thinks YOU should do and be. What matters is that YOU are following YOUR heart and working towards YOUR dreams, and your dreams are making you BETTER.

Use the time you have NOW. Not in the future, nor living in the past. Live in the NOW and create the BEST opportunities for you to evolve into a HIGHER being, throwing all limitations ASIDE and ignoring any negativity from those who seek not to support or encourage your personal and spiritual GROWTH.

Life is a journey. No, it’s not JUST about you, but if you do not focus on you and becoming the BEST you that YOU can be, you cannot possibly give of your best and help anyone else become the best that THEY can be. Your life is an EXAMPLE to inspire and motivate OTHERS into becoming BETTER.

© Rosie Chee