Never forget the blessings in every day. Never forget the truth in the love that you have. Never forget the smile that sometimes has to be searched for.

Words: © Rosie Chee

Someone who has never seen or been near the ocean will never understand; even some who have do not. But for those who do, know that for some the ocean is more than just a body of water or "part of the scenery", as essential as breathing for complete vitality of energy and lightness of being. For some of us were born with its song in our soul, the most alive when we are near it, fading a little the further and longer we are away from the waves, like a mermaid who has spent too long on land. They say "home is where the heart is", and for the freespirits who have no "home", gypsy souls feeling almost constant compulsion of wanderlust, their heart belongs to the ocean, always drawn back to it, for rarely anywhere but there can their mind find calm and their soul peace.

Words: © 2018 Rosie Chee

I never ended up posting this last year. For some reason, I always hesitated. But not now, not after everything. Not after, against my better judgement, I allowed someone I walked away from once before, the "second chance" they asked for, doubt in me from the start, because words mean nothing when always contradicted by actions and future words. Even despite love, my deeper instincts in the past always felt uneasy, coming to recognize an uncomfortable truth, and today it became clearer than ever that listening to them then saved me from a worse nightmare than the one I have lived once before. I will allow no more of me to be "taken", no more tolerance for curiosity's sake, when instinct screams to stay away. So today I made a choice. I chose to walk away a second time. The first time I did gave a sense of freedom and lightness of being, albeit fleeting as healing did not come so easy, a testing of "second chance" making it painfully clear that healing had only been masked and not complete. But this time, this time there will be no weakness "for love", for while we can and do love, not always is it beneficial, and sometimes, for our own protection and wellbeing, for true freedom and manifestation of our best self, that love must exist "outside" of our life. No more death. Just life. That of what is "left", with transformative renewal and "rebirth" of anything that was taken.


Words: © 2018 Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY


LIGHT AND DARKNESS

The most brilliant lights shine in the deepest darkness. The greatest illumination occurs in the complete absence of light. The brightest stars would not be seen if not for the darkness they are surrounded by.


In the same manner, PEOPLE cannot shine without the darkness they experience. They cannot grow without the pain suffered. They cannot know true happiness without knowing the deepest despair. They cannot fully appreciate life in all its beauty and glory without having fallen so far that they know the ugliness and depravity that balances this world.


The greatest people that you know have been through the most in life. You might not always know it, but those with discernment will sense it in their soul. The most beautiful people have the kindest hearts, even if they seem untouchable and distant. The kindest hearts come from having experienced the deepest heartache and never wanting another to suffer through the same or similar experience. Those experiences create in one an understanding, instill empathy for the lost, and allow one to grow into more than they are.


The greatest people that you know have overcome the most adversity. They have faced unspoken tragedy. They have dealt with destruction on a level they would never wish you to know personally. They are great because they have known all that and are still here. They have been broken and yet remain intact. They have been destroyed so much that they have been brought to their knees and yet they stand before you. They stand before you, because in those times, they grew in strength and courage and passion and never failed to hold tight to faith and hope and belief, even if for a time they might have felt like there was nothing left to cling to.


The most brilliant lights shine in the deepest darkness. The brightest stars are only so bright BECAUSE of the darkness.


© Rosie Chee

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JUST BE HAPPY


JUST BE HAPPY. It can be a “hard” thing to ask sometimes. Especially of those who seek it. Yet only when we understand that happiness is something that cannot be sourced OUTside of ourselves and that it can only occur when we allow ourselves to be completely IN the present, can we truly BE happy.


The world can be falling apart. The most terrible and traumatic things can be happening. The circumstances we find ourselves in can seem out of control and beyond our own. The events occurring can be testing and questioning everything we ever believed in and thought we knew. Yet through it all we CAN be happy.


“Happy” is not just for when life is “perfect” and wonderful and full of love and light. It is not just for when things seem to be working in our favour and we are blessed beyond imagining. It is not just for when we find ourselves smiled upon and sought out for recognition of achievement. It is not just for when we think life could not be any better.


Being happy is not reserved for the “good” times only and one CAN find and be happy during the “bad” as well. Being happy is about being fully aware of who YOU are and ACCEPTING that you are at whatever point you are in your life. It is believing whatever is within your control you CAN change and trusting in Him for the rest. It is knowing that you are NEVER alone even if it might seem like it. It is being completely in the PRESENT and giving yourself permission to take joy in the moment of even the simplest things.


Being happy is not conditional. It does not require everything to be “just right”. It does not have to wait for everything to “fall into place”. It can be whenever and wherever. YOU can be happy at ANY moment. It is a choice like any other. A simple shift in mindset.


You “need” nothing to be happy. You just need YOU. HERE. NOW. Do it for YOU. JUST BE HAPPY.


© Rosie Chee

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HAPPY CHRISTMAS

Pohutukawa trees and the beaches of endless sand ... two things of immense beauty unique to and that I miss from my homeland ... the glorious crimson red of the blossoms always remind me of Christmas, the New Zealand summer Christmas filled with sunshine, family and memories ... it's still Christmas Day there, soon to be Boxing Day and here, His Birthday begins ... I wish everyone everywhere the joy of love and family on this day of all days, and for those who are not (whether by choice or otherwise), remember that there is always love abound, and may your heart still smile with [His] happiness ...

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

EVERYTHING

Art and Catharsis.
Passion and Happiness.
Freedom and Expression.
It is Everything.

© 2015 Rosie Chee

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POSITIVITY

Every day starts with an ATTITUDE - YOURS. You choose how the tone of your day is set. Start it out with POSITIVITY. Breathe and open your heart with gratitude. A grateful heart is a thankful heart and a thankful heart sees the blessings before anything else, the possibilities in any challenge.

What you meditate on eventually becomes your reality. Gratitude and thankfulness give way to joy, a light in the soul that emanates out, casting an aura that affects the space you dwell in. You can change the atmosphere for better or worse - choose happiness and see how the world "changes".

© 2015 Rosie Chee

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"LISTEN"

You cannot help BUT know when you're with kindred spirits and free souls. For your OWN soul feels freedom and revels in the joy. It LIVES life breathing happiness and spreading light as it glows from the inside out.

THOSE are the people your life wants and needs to "walk with". When you’re together the world has no choice but to sit up and take NOTICE because there is a “magic” that happens in those moments. LISTEN to your instinct for it will always “lead” you true.

© 2015 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.

© 2015 Rosie Chee

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SAY "YES" TO YOU

You have had something on your heart for a long time now. Something that should been done when you FIRST recognized it, but never was because you were too busy taking care of everyone else and their needs, ignoring your own in a misplaced sense of loyalty. But now that something is of PARAMOUNT importance to do, for such a deep-seated desire does not get laid on one’s heart for no reason, and it’s time to start thinking about your OWN health and happiness, to begin doing what will be BEST for you.

First, you must learn to be SELFISH. Hard for those who always put others before themselves, who have taken care of everyone else all their life and neglected themselves until they could no longer ignore the warning signals inside. Being selfish we all need to be sometimes, for if we do not take care of ourselves we are NOT going to be in any position to be of service to others. We also need to realize that when WE are healthy and happy, then we are better equipped to create POSITIVE impact in others’ lives.

You are at the point where you can no longer ignore that desire, when it MUST be taken care of before all else, not just because it should have been done, but because if it is NOT, you will never be able to live your life as completely as you were meant to. You WANT to become ALL you have the potential and power to be, and to do that this must be DONE. You have made the decision and now it is time to ACT on it, creating the reality that you have sought in your heart for a long time.

Realize that saying “no” to everyone else and their needs for a time is NOT bad, for not only must they learn to start taking care of themselves and not rely on draining you of everything you have and are to keep them satisfied, but you need to start thinking of YOU and YOUR best interests. Life changes and we change with it and that change should constantly be making us into something BETTER than we are. To become better, you have to know what you NEED to do to reach that next level and just DO it, no matter the cost.

There is ALWAYS going to be a cost to doing what must be done, but that is nothing compared to what will be if you do NOT move. Your life is your own, so start allowing it to be. Start allowing yourself to LIVE. Start allowing that glimpse of happiness to become a ray of hope that spreads throughout your being, into all corners of your soul and life. Start allowing that inner voice to say “YES” to yourself, accepting that you must in order for your life to truly move FORWARD.

© Rosie Chee

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CHANGING YOUR THINKING

It’s a lot harder than it sounds, to change your thinking, for your thoughts are a culmination of years of processes, mountains of turmoil, lifetimes of pain and experience all moulding your mind, setting your beliefs and foundations for how you live your life and are, consciously and unconsciously, every little thing having an effect on our psyche. But you cannot change a BEHAVIOUR without FIRST changing the THOUGHT behind it, the motivating force pushing for that change, because no matter how much you WANT to change and be different, someone else, a new creature forged from fire and ice, you will never be completely anew unless you let GO of your old ways of thinking and embrace the NEW.

A negative person does not instantly become positive. An unhappy individual is not transformed by happiness overnight. Those who hate are not filled with love as if it were something they could merely purchase for the asking. It takes a lot of CONCENTRATED time AND effort to CHANGE oneself, especially if the changes sought are so drastic.

It takes a lifetime to UNlearn another lifetime of learning, lessons well taught, so deep that they are a part of yourself and to seek them out for destruction or replacement is difficult, for the mind may not want to let go of them, comfortable in its knowledge of those patterns, unwilling to harbour something different and unknown. But GROWTH comes with a price, and that price is the RELEASE of the old, sometimes things that have kept us going and allowed us to survive for so long, and if you are not prepared to make that sacrifice, even if it is going to make you BETTER, then only YOU will miss out on the blessings that await your new life.

It might take time, and sometimes that time is an eternity, but be PATIENT and PERSEVERE, for in the end you know the end result WILL be WORTH it, the effort and pain of change, the call to arms of encouragement and support in that change, and the journey that continues to mould you for the greater good. Change to make a DIFFERENCE, not just because you feel the “need” to, but when you NEED to.

© Rosie Chee

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7 RULES OF LIFE

Your past is your PAST. Living in the past does no one any good. Lest of all YOU. You have to ACCEPT that what happened happened and LEARN from it. Let it GO. There is a reason it is now in the past and is no longer your life. There is a reason you are not where you WERE. Let it go and make PEACE with it so that you can move FORWARD.

Others will think many things about you. Some right, but most wrong. What others think is based on their impressions and what they THINK they know, for few will know the true soul of you, only those rare precious allowed inside to see the unpolished diamond that you are. What the world thinks does NOT matter. It is what YOU know you are that does.

Not everyone heals the same. No experience is the same and no one deals with similar experiences in the same manner. We are all human, but although we are “the same” we are NOTHING alike. The only thing “the same” is TIME, and even that takes on different meaning for hurting or grieving souls. Sometimes all we can do is allow time what it needs to try and heal the wounds in our soul.

Your life is YOUR life. It is YOUR journey. You have no right to compare your life to anyone else and vice versa. You have no right to judge anyone else and vice versa. You may experience similar things to others, but your experience is NOT their experience. Learn to look PAST what something LOOKS like to what it really IS and then you will begin to understand others and their worlds a little more.

Thinking can be a curse. OVERthinking can cause a mind to become stressed and create such a frenzy that becomes sleepless nights and time lost worrying over something that might not even be. We all have questions. Sometimes we need to learn to let those questions GO, for the answers we do not “need”, and should we know them, cause far more damage than not knowing them.

So many expect that someone else or something is what is needed to make them happy. They do not realize that happiness is not something that can be gained from an EXTERNAL source. Happiness must begin WITHIN you, deep down in the recesses of your soul and be allowed to spring forth, spreading light. Happiness comes from a soul at peace with the world and itself.

No matter what happens or how things appear, whether your day starts rough or not and you have to struggle or can flit easily through, sometimes a SMILE can change everything. Sometimes it is YOUR smile. And sometimes it is the smile of another that sparks your own. It might take effort, feel like you might crack if you try, but in the end, a GENUINE smile is beautiful and can change your entire day.

Smile. Live. Laugh. Love. TODAY.

© 2014 Rosie Chee

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CHASE YOUR DREAMS

YOU HAVE DREAMS. You’ve always had dreams, some since forever and have never ever changed. Some you never had before, but were awakened within by the touch of another soul against your own, realized with a start, but then acknowledged and accepted and now held most precious of all.

The dreams you always had – these are what you have spent a lifetime working towards, so hold onto them, for they were not placed on your soul without purpose. CHASE THEM. Do one thing every day that will take you ONE STEP CLOSER to their achievement.

The dreams that were startled from slumber – these are the dreams that have sustained you in recent times, when you discovered that smile in your soul again. CHASE THEM. FIGHT FOR THEM with everything you have and DO NOT EVER give up on them.

You want your life to “close” without regrets. You don’t want to wonder “what if?” So chase your dreams - ALL of them. There is ALWAYS hope and if you still believe in your dreams, KEEP THEM ALIVE. LIVE your life TOWARDS your dreams until your life IS your dream.

© 2013 Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

CREATE YOURSELF

Are you happy with yourself? Are you happy with WHO you are? Are you happy with WHERE you’re at? Very important questions, for if you are not happy with yourself then much of life becomes a chore, because the one person who SHOULD be happy is not, and if you do not like and love the one person that you are constantly with, then life can be trialing indeed.

So…

Create yourself in the way that you want to. Create a being that you ARE happy with. Create someone that you can LIVE with. Create someone that you can not only live with, but be PROUD of. Create the kind of self that YOU would want to be with. Expect of yourself what your soul desires from another, because in the end it truly all does start with YOU.

I know…

One cannot be happy ALL of the time, but we can FIND something to be happy about, even when life kicks us down. We can CHOOSE to smile because there is something in our soul that cannot repress its thanksgiving for the blessings that life has given us. We can choose to let that unconscious laugh escape because we know it can create a domino effect and change an environment.

We can CHOOSE…

What we BECOME. Who we ARE. We have so much POTENTIAL in everything we can be, but we must be TRUE to ourselves, and in that truth, be someone that we will be happy to live with infinitely. It’s up to US. The CHOICE is there. If you look inside your soul and find pieces that break your heart to see there, then make the choice TODAY to get RID of them and start creating the BEST you possible!

© 2013 Rosie Chee

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BE YOURSELF

It can be hard to realize that to be truly HAPPY you must be YOU. You – as you ARE, in your ENTIRETY. No hiding aspects of yourself away, but letting the world know by seeing how BRILLIANTLY you can glow – the way you have let others see you glow and the way you unconsciously glowed before from the touching of another soul against your own.

In that time you were happy – completely and unadulteratedly HAPPY. You were FREE to be you, with those who only longed to see more of the soul you had started to let peek out at the world. Somehow, between then and now, it ran away and hid again, and now you have to STOP that and let it back OUT – you need to OPEN up your trembling heart to the winter frost to find the sun and its warmth.

NO more hiding. No more shying AWAY. You have so MUCH potential inside you. You have so many DREAMS, so many HOPES and plans for the future. Let them OUT. Give them VOICE and see that there IS support – there are those who want to see your soul bloom like it did once before, and grow beyond that to FLOURISH.

Just be YOU. Not what the world wants you to be. Not what others want you to be. Not what you think you should be. Just be what you ARE and be UNashamed of it – do not forget your beauty, your wings, your UNIQUENESS and everything about you that stands you apart from anyone and everything else. Let your soul back out and simply let yourself BE.

When you can do that, KEEP on doing it. LIVE your dreams. Let the joy of refinding the passion that had slipped away infuse back into everything you do. Let the smile in your soul sparkle from the depths and light the smile of another. Give yourself permission to FLY again and GROW ever more into the person He intended you to be. Let the HAPPINESS become a way of life again.

© 2013 Rosie Chee

 

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REMEMBER...

Sometimes you have to remember how and why it started. Things may be different, but you're still there for a reason; still building a life with one person. I of all people understand the need for passion and what happens when there is none. Maybe it's gone. Maybe it never was. Maybe it was simply forgotten. Passion is what makes life though...And when you lose it...You lose a lot more than just that. You matter. You need to be happy too. If there is no longer any joy to be found, look at what has changed since it all began and maybe you'll see how it happened. You might be able to see a way to find your joy again or create a new start by rekindling the passion between you. If you cannot...Reconsider. Take a step back. Life is too short to live without passion; to let it die. You deserve to be happy, loved the way you love...If you stay, remember that there is always a choice. You live the life you choose. I need to remember this too, as I continue. I have to believe it can turn around, but if it doesn't...You should never have to settle.  You're better than that. Sometimes we have to be the ones who make the effort, extend the hand of compromise, but not so much that it compromises yourself or sacrifices your future happiness...Love can be many things. Killing you slowly it should not...And if it does...I just want you to keep that smile and enthusiasm that motivates others. Do what you have to to survive, but in surviving, stay alive and let not the passion disappear from your life...           

© 2013 Rosie Chee

2013 | Day 52: YOUR WINGS

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YOUR WINGS

It matters not what MIGHT happen, for life does not always heed the desperate prayers of our hearts, and sometimes we can find our dreams tossed aside, out of control of the result. What matters is what you DO about it. You can choose to wallow in self-pity or you can see it as an opportunity to start over, new and fresh, a chance to spread your wings and see if you can FLY.

We ALL have wings. Just not everyone USES them. Maybe you’ve let yours be cut off, but they can always grow BACK. Maybe they’ve been clipped for a while, but now when you stretch them you feel the new STRENGTH in them. Maybe they’ve been open, but you’ve never risked taking OFF to try them out. Maybe you HAVE been flying, but something just knocked you out of the sky.

If you were flying, maybe you were alone or flying WITH another. Another who challenged you to fly HIGHER, to be BETTER, to see the beauty in the sunrise from such heights. But now they are GONE or nowhere to be found. You cannot rely on them to keep you GOING, to keep you pushing forward, to keep you striving to fly higher. You must do it for YOURSELF.

If a lightning bolt struck you down in the midst of a thunderstorm and you’re lying broken, battered, and torn on the muddy ground, you HAVE to get back UP and fix your wings. You have to MEND them. You need to HEAL and only YOU can do that, because only you know what you need.

No one knows how long it will take to mend your broken wings, but you have to at least TRY, for if you don’t you are only short-changing YOURSELF. No one else can do it for you. You have to CHOOSE to rebuild what has been broken and then have the COURGAE to spread your wings and fly again. No matter what you know might happen when you do.

©2013 Rosie Chee
 

2013 | Day 26: BE THE EXAMPLE

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BE THE EXAMPLE

People look up to you. You inspire them. They see you and are motivated. They talk of you and are awed. It is an honour and a privilege to know that you can have such an IMPACT on others. Therefore in everything that you do, make sure that you are LEADING BY EXAMPLE.

Your smile of ENCOURAGEMENT, even if you are in the most intense pain, can pick up another’s spirits and help push them through the day. Your words of KINDNESS, even when you are feeling the most unexpected betrayal, can allow another to see forgiveness and let them know it’s ok to feel the way they do. Your laughter can create a sound of HAPPINESS that echoes all around you.

BE THE EXAMPLE that life is wonderful, even when it’s not. Show others that there is so much to look FORWARD to. Let them know that no matter what happens there are always BETTER times ahead. Life right now is what you MAKE of it. So determine that it will be GREAT and show others that no matter what is going on in the present, it WILL pass, leading by EXAMPLE and doing only what YOU can do.

© 2013 Rosie Chee

2013 | Day 5: CHOOSE FAITH. PURPOSE FUTURE.

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CHOOSE FAITH. PURPOSE FUTURE.

Choose CAREFULLY those whom you not just CONFIDE in, but spend TIME with, for those you surround yourself with can have more influence on you than you might think. Make sure your FRIENDS are those of the SAME soul and mind. Ensure that you are all INVESTED in the future and GROWTH of the other.

KNOW your PURPOSE for your FUTURE. DETERMINE it consciously and work TOWARDS it with PASSION. Even if you are not sure what lies ahead, TRUST in your INSTINCT, BELIEVE in your heart of hearts that He has your BEST interests in mind, and have FAITH that the path you are on will lead you TRUE.

Sometimes FAITH is where it all STARTS. When you have faith in those who walk BESIDE you, in the path you are WALKING, and in what you are DOING, life seems BRIGHTER. When you live BY faith, things do not worry you as much and you have a greater sense of PEACE and HAPPINESS.

© 2013 Rosie Chee