MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

POWERFUL BEYOND BELIEF

Everyone feels the keen pain of loss, especially when it is one so very close to your heart, and whilst grief can overcome you to the point of breaking and wanting to disappear from the world, your spirit has a TREMENDOUS ABILITY to “come back” from tragedy.

Your spirit has an OVERWHELMING CAPACITY to love and forgive, so even if the one you love hurts you beyond imagining, the deep emotion you have for that person allow you to treasure the time that you had, instead of building fires of resentment and anger. The strength of your emotions for that individual could turn into something ugly, but your spirit is POWERFUL BEYOND BELIEF, and you have the WILLPOWER TO MAINTAIN the beauty that was brought into your life, the gifts that were unexpectedly received in the joy of knowing them, even if they are gone from you in time and distance and perhaps life.

Never forget the POWER hidden deep inside you, the STRENGTH that rises to the surface when needed, the safeguards of your soul, to protect and keep you, but not from the experiences in life that will mould you into a better being, a “higher” you, an ultimate version of the best you possible. Without powerful emotions, having loved and lost, we would miss out on a painful experience yes, but also on the opportunity to OPEN up our life and our heart to another, even for the briefest of times, and know the WONDER OF EVERYTHING encompassed in the HOPE that such happiness can bring to a soul.

You are what you ALLOW yourself to become, with your emotions so very powerful in shaping your thoughts and controlling your actions, so be careful what you hold onto, and if loss is something you are dealing with, remember that the pain eventually seeps away, even if it takes a lifetime, but the BLESSINGS of that love NEVER disappear from you.

Be THANKFUL for everyone in your life who has TOUCHED your soul and left a little piece of themselves embedded in your heart, for they are the gems that make your life so very SPECIAL AND IRREPLACEABLE, for no one else ever did, can, or will have YOUR spirit and the ability that YOU have to make that DIFFERENCE to OTHERS.

© Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

DO WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO FOR YOU

Life is always going to be full of things that we have no control over, no matter how much we wish in our hearts that it would change, or that people would change, and SEE us deep inside our soul for who we are and could be, and understand and appreciate what we have to give and offer. Sometimes the people we love the most are the people who we should NOT even care about, the people we should let GO of, because they are not the people who are THERE walking beside us through life, whether by some circumstances they cannot control even if they want to, or they simply don’t care.

The love I loved the most I lost before I even had a real chance to have it and know what it was like, taken from me by the one I loved the most because they did not have the courage or the strength in them to believe in something that could have been the most beautiful thing that life might ever have chanced them with. And even though I was ready to reach out my hand and step into that chance, I was pushed back and thrown down, cast away and let fall like a star falls from the sky in the deepest dark of night, a bright flash of light fading from existence, so fast that I wonder if anyone even noticed it was gone.

Some of the deepest sorrows we hold close when we need to let them GO. We hold onto memories and hope and faith when we should long have moved ON. We let it eat away at our souls, unconsciously destroying ourselves from WITHIN, until we are but shadows haunting this world with our presence, because we are no longer fully alive, lost and wandering, not wanting to find our way, because our way is gone from us and all that is left is the darkness that consumes what is left of our hearts, which are exhausted and just want to STOP and sleep and never wake up.

But that is not living, only merely existing and if we merely exist we may as well BE dead. Even though it hurts more than anything else ever might, we HAVE to open our eyes and realize what we are doing to ourselves, that life was NOT meant to be lived in darkness, our hearts not meant to lose hope, our souls not meant to be cast from the heavens into the pits of hell, not meant to STOP living, nor stop in our journey at all. We are meant to keep MOVING, moving FORWARD, because just because one person does not care enough about our soul does not mean that WE should give up on it as well.

We MUST keep moving forward, even if we don’t want to. We MUST do it for ourselves, because we know deep down in our innermost core that it is the BEST thing to do. It may take time as you grieve, to come out of the shadows, a mere whisper of life as you cautiously step back into the journey that is waiting for you. DON’T let someone else compromise your life and how it should be lived. Don’t let them take away your joy, your happiness, your ability to think and feel and wonder. Even if they are the best thing that could have ever happened to you, if they cause you to be like this, then they truly are NOT, and you must do what you know in your heart you NEED to do for YOU to LIVE your life the way you were MEANT to.

© Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

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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BLOOMED AND BECOME

Love is something I always shunned and scorned, never wanted for myself (at least, never admitted to myself or anyone else), seeing the heartache it created, not wanting the hurt and pain that seemed inevitable in every “example” of it I saw. Not that I was afraid per se, although when you spend a lifetime building walls around your heart to guard yourself from hurt, that would indicate some “fear” (at least, to those that perceive), but I saw it as weakness and did not want weakness. But sometimes allowing the very things that you are “afraid” of are ultimately what you “need” to set your soul FREE.

So I took the chance. I stopped “fighting” what was happening and just LET it happen. And in that I experienced happiness greater than any I ever thought I might, dreams in my heart that had never dared raise their head for fear of being extinguished on the spot suddenly revealed. Letting love in was a beautiful thing, aspects of myself that I would not have otherwise let be seen exposed to the world, those in my life watching me bloom and blossom in ways that they would never have believed without seeing it for themselves.

But in welcoming the love, I also opened myself up to the hurt and pain I had seen so many times before. I made myself vulnerable in caring about something more than life itself. Love was a weakness that made me open to attack, to destruction that would likely never have had the opportunity to be wrought before. Yet, (and not without great struggle), I accepted that vulnerability, allowing the love to change me, knowing that nothing about such a blessing was ever intended NOT to create unfathomable change in a soul, even if the ways in which that change would eventuate and close would not be all beautiful.

I loved. I bloomed. For a time I held heaven in my hands, and then the inevitable crashing of the world that had been built on dreams and faith and hope and love took the light that had begun to glow so brightly. And in the dark more change occurred as a different strength that might never have been sought or manifested before emerged, grace allowing forgiveness without complete understanding, and the broken  rising to stand tall and proud. For to “become” I needed BOTH light and dark to fully comprehend what was and had been, that light needed not always reason to sparkle and the me required in this world.

© 2013 Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

YOU ARE HERE FOR A REASON

Whether by design or circumstance of choice, you are where you are right now for a REASON. You may be happy with where you are or you may NOT be. You may be wondering what twist of fate brought you here, to this place in this time, what reasoning could possibly have for you here. There is a reason for EVERYthing that happens in our lives and this is no different. You are where you are right now for a REASON.

Yes, it might be hard, it might be tough, it might be everything you never wanted to know or ever experience going on all at once right now, baffling you, angering you, causing feelings of fear and resentment. You might not know how to handle the situation, frustrated by your lack of knowledge and expertise, ashamed of your shortcomings, wanting to do nothing but run and hide, waiting until it is over and safe to come out from the storm.

But storms are not sent to be afraid of and hidden from. They are sent to be FACED and challenged head on, beckoning your finger to let it know to give all its got, do its worst, knowing that if you don’t already know where it is, you will FIND the courage and the strength to fight back and DEFEAT it. The hard pummelling of the rain to wear you down, the louder-than-it-should-be thunder booming to try and terrify you, the hailstones falling to bruise you body, you WILL find a way to SURVIVE.

And when the storm clears and the sun’s light starts to peek through the clouds that do not want to seem to budge, spreading over your smudged face and war-torn eyes, they will shine over a soul that has been changed and now sees the world through different eyes, knowing with confidence what they are capable of, a new inner spark glowing from the depths of those eyes, ready and willing to face whatever comes next. By accepting, facing, and embracing the storm that soul has GROWN, one step closer its destiny.

So, see that you are where you are right now for a reason. Whether it is a lesson to be learned, a skill to be mastered, or strength to be found, everything transpires together to make the MOST of the now, to make you INTO the person that you are MEANT to be. You might not want to be where you are now, but simply desiring to be elsewhere will NOT help you. If you want to be somewhere else, you must stand and fight through the now to get to where you want to go. So, do it, taking everything you can from the now with you.

© Rosie Chee

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BROKEN DOWN TO REBUILD UP

NO ONE is immune to tragedy. No one is immune to DESTRUCTION. No one is immune to breaking DOWN. No one is immune to coming UNdone. No one is immune to falling APART.

EVERYthing happens for a reason. Those times in your life that you think you cannot handle, surviving only to feel like you have been through the fires of hell, left with nothing but yourself, everything torn away from you, you know that you CAN. You know you are STRONG.

Left in the devastation behind, stripped bare of all you held precious, there is nothing but ashes and soot, a grey area to live in instead of the black and white, and yet there is still HOPE. For from ashes grow NEW life. From tearing down everything that once stood around you can be built something NEW. Everything broken and shattered inside you can be replaced with something BETTER and stronger.

If you did not like yourself before, or the life you lived, the people you lived with, you have a chance to CHANGE it. The circumstances might be extreme, but sometimes it takes extreme measures to facilitate change. Sometimes it takes the most terrible loss to realize what you truly HAVE and want to hold onto.

Sometimes it takes falling apart, inside and out, to give yourself the FREEDOM to become what you know you are CAPABLE of being. Sometimes those circumstances OPEN your eyes to truth of yourself and your life, forcing you to make the decision of “settling” or forging forward to become what you WANT to be and do the things you want to do.

After all, the CHOICE to change is up to us. Sometimes the circumstances must be extreme until we can truly accept and allow ourselves to be weak in order to become the strength we ARE, to start from the ground up, building the foundation that will stand TRUE in all that we are, creating a being that we can be PROUD of. 

© Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

LOSING EVERYTHING

Sometimes the thing that “wakes” us up is losing the very thing that was the most precious to us, when we find ourselves falling, with nothing left but ourselves, everything ripped from us in a cruel twist of fate.

When you lose something so very precious to you, you learn to value the gifts bestowed on you along the journey of your life. You learn not to waste a single moment in regret or what “might have been”. You learn to never let an opportunity go by when either you or someone else could be blessed abundantly. You learn to see happiness for what it truly is and how to be at peace with your own heart.

Suffering tempers even the hardest of souls. It can change the coldest people into those most capable of loving.

Those who have lost everything are those with the most compassion, the gentlest touch, the most beautiful of smiles, and the greatest strength. They are who they are because they had the courage to get up and pick up the pieces of themselves and their lives and continue living, start over, step out and risk again, and open their hearts to see the “magic” that lies in everything.

© Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

LOSING AN ILLUSION

Even before the dust settles, you can begin to have clear vision. Even through the blurry haze in front of you, your instinct will know the truth. What you thought you knew was just an illusion, the suspicions in your heart revealed as truth before you. That final realization, the knot in the ball of your stomach, the racing of your heart and struggle to breathe, uncomfortable as it may be, will pass. The losing of that illusion will pass. And in the end you will be stronger for it. You will not allow yourself to be fooled again. You will listen to your instinct and not go against it because the words spoken into the world appear to ring truth.

It hurts. It hits deep, like a knife taken to your soul, tearing strips in it as one might tear skin from one in torture. You always thought you could trust the rare ones you let into your soul, and to find you were wrong is like waking up to harsh light after walking endless days in darkness. The world beneath your feet wobbles and threatens to destabilize you, but you have to find the strength to focus and hold on, keeping yourself upright, for you cannot let anyone see you buckle. You cannot let yourself buckle, for then what respect would you have left for yourself. What dignity could you hold onto?

Losing an illusion is a soul shattering event. It creates a rift in the trust in your heart that might not ever be repaired, and certainly will never be the same. It causes the wariness to creep back into your soul, a somewhat distant caring of what comes next, the beginning of new walls you’re not sure you will ever want to let be broken down. Losing an illusion, especially if that illusion was so real, will devastate you more than if you ever knew the entire truth from the start, and you have to forgive yourself for being human and wanting to believe in something beautiful, even if it all turned out to be a lie in the end.

© 2013 Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

BLINK OF AN EYE

Life can change in a heartbeat; a minute moment in time that you might not even notice. In the blink of an eye your entire WORLD can change; made into something you do not recognize. Life is UNpredictable, unwavering in its sudden changes in course; determined to see how much we value what we claim as precious and how we hold up when it is gone.

Those we love – SHOW them every day. Those we can never bear to lose – make sure they KNOW it. Those who cause pain – FORGIVE even if you never forget. Those who “bandaid” our hearts – LOVE them.

Life is fleeting and in less than the time it takes the wind to whistle through the leaves of a tree, faster than you could even see light flash through time, YOUR timeline can change in ways you might never have imagined. So make sure you make the MOST of the time you have with the ones you have, before they are taken from you, as leaves torn from a tree in a tornado.

© 2013 Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

LET YOURSELF HEAL

Grieving is a NATURAL process. It is unfair to ask one who has experienced loss NOT to grieve. It is cruel to expect them to feel nothing for something that was so very PRECIOUS to them. Even if you do not understand the importance, give them the time that they need to HEAL. Give them the support that they might need in such a time, just to let them know they’re not alone.

In the same regard, you need to LET yourself heal. If you have suffered such tragedy in a loss that renders your soul in pieces, you cannot continue to go on as if nothing has happened. You cannot lie to yourself as well as everyone else and pretend that you are fine and ok, and that the sudden hole in your heart does not affect you in ways that you could never imagine it would.

It is OK to be sad. It is ok to GRIEVE. It is ok to take TIME to let yourself heal. No one can know the depths to which the loss you have suffered affects you. Only you know that, once you have moved past the denial and let the pain touch your soul. When it touches your soul and floods you with the dreams you suddenly realize your heart held, you need to grasp onto them and know that even in death, they are STILL alive.

The loss of a loved one, even one you have never met or who had yet to draw breath, has an IMPACT on your soul. Especially the loss of a life you had living inside you, whether you were ambivalent about its existence or not. EVERY life is precious and the loss of even a sliver of it is a tragedy, even if it takes time to “catch up” to the emotion felt in its wake.

You NEED to let yourself heal. You need to let yourself FEEL. You need to let yourself understand the dream you had buried so deep in your soul that it took such a loss to fully realize that it IS one you want, something secretly and desperately desired, and hold tight to your faith, hoping with all your soul, that it is a dream that will live on until it has been FULFILLED.        

© 2013 Rosie Chee

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

IT WILL BE OK

A reason, a season, or a lifetime – that’s what they say people are in our lives. Sometimes a reason becomes a lifetime and what you thought was a lifetime is only a season with a reason. Even lifetimes are not TRUE lifetimes; although a “lifetime” is “as long as it lasts”. We live and die many times over throughout our life, stepping from one life into another,  leaving one behind or creating something else altogether. NO lifetime lasts forever.

Nor does ANYthing in this world truly last forever. When one thing passes it gives opportunity for something ELSE to enter your life, to become and be, for a new life to be created. If your mind is not yet ready to let go of that which your soul already knows is gone, you need to allow yourself to understand that nothing lasts forever and sometimes people MUST move in and out of our lives in order for us to move on and FORWARD with ours.

Sometimes it IS a special individual’s presence IN our life that enables us to “find” the parts of ourselves that might have been “missing”, and in discovering those aspects, be the “trigger” for our life moving to the NEXT level. Loves, though it conquers all and lasts lifetimes, is not always meant to exist as it does, and sometimes it is simply the wrong time and place, even if it “right”, for though it has been REALIZED and creeps through our soul, its lifetime has not yet come to truly “be”.

Love can last “forever”, a lifetime through lifetimes, even if it does not start when we do, because it can live BEYOND our years. Sometimes love enters our life, only to leave and return when the time is “right” and we are READY to embrace it in its complete nature. The first time it enters is the first time it changes us, the reason or season that eventually becomes a lifetime, and it changes us so that our hearts soften towards it, to make us UNDERSTAND what it “means”.

So weep not when what you thought was a lifetime creates an absence in your life for a time, for if it is TRUE, it WILL return, and when it does you will be able to enjoy EVERY aspect of it. If the lifetime you thought would always be leaves and remains only a lifetime in your HEART, allow yourself to grieve and let go, but once the mourning is over, CELEBRATE the time you had and the change it wrought, appreciating that without it you would not be who and where you are today.

© 2013 Rosie Chee

2012 | Day 307: THE THREADS IN YOUR LIFE

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

THE THREADS IN YOUR SOUL

Just when you finally muster the courage and WILLINGNESS to open your soul to another, the one who started as a reason but grew to become a lifetime and who you thought gone forever reappears and turns your world upside down, bringing joy and hope, but also immeasurable pain and confusion, because even though you made your peace with it and let go, how you felt never changed even as EVERYthing changed. It is NOT fair on you, nor on the one you have started to open your heart to, but no one ever said life was fair and we must play the hand we are dealt as the cards appear.

Life is a tangled web and we must simply try to live it as BEST we can, untangling the threads twining through, in and over and under our own. Every thread ADDS something to your life, whether through love or loss, colour or black and white, each giving you an experience you will never forget, even the smallest of impressions changing something in your soul. Sometimes that change is MORE than you ever realize until you are suddenly aware of it, and when you are, can become a change so noticeable to the world that its effect ripples through your thread in others’ lives.

You have a choice: The love that made your soul so happy for the first time in forever and changed you in ways you could never imagine, but then destroyed you so completely you wanted to die and never be able to feel again, almost fading from existence without hope. Or the sweet promise of the new bud blooming in your soul, offering the appreciation and care that your life has been missing since forever, making you feel and want to be alive again; the glimpse of true happiness seen once before no longer an illusion but something tangible, tugging at your heart right there in front of you.

Life is a test we are all given, choices we all have to make, and you have only just been able to make your peace with letting that first soul-soaring, heart-wrenching love go. It has taken time, but you have dared to risk opening your heart again, not wanting to let go of the dream that was hidden for so long now brought to light, even if you know that it is a seed that may never break through the surface of life. You have come so far, TOO far to go back, and you do NOT want to go back from the darkness you escaped from; only to move FORWARD with your life, stepping into the new.

Time has a way of deceiving us, thinking we have it when we do not, so we canNOT waste the time we are given when we have it. We cannot go back and expect it to be as it was because it never will be, for everything has changed, especially this soul that has been through so much, broken and battered, but stronger for it, knowing what it must do, the path it must take, the decision that will change everything from here on out. It has taken all that time, all that experience, love and loss, ecstasy and pain, but your soul HAS been OPENED and it must STAY that way, each thread a brilliant gleam or soft glow tangled with your own.

© 2012 Rosie Chee

2012 | Day 260: POWERFUL BEYOND BELIEF

MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

POWERFUL BEYOND BELIEF

Everyone feels the keen pain of loss, especially when it is one so very close to your heart, and whilst grief can overcome you to the point of breaking and wanting to disappear from the world, your spirit has a TREMENDOUS ABILITY to “come back” from tragedy.

Your spirit has an OVERWHELMING CAPACITY to love and forgive, so even if the one you love hurts you beyond imagining, the deep emotion you have for that person allow you to treasure the time that you had, instead of building fires of resentment and anger. The strength of your emotions for that individual could turn into something ugly, but your spirit is POWERFUL BEYOND BELIEF, and you have the WILLPOWER TO MAINTAIN the beauty that was brought into your life, the gifts that were unexpectedly received in the joy of knowing them, even if they are gone from you in time and distance and perhaps life.

Never forget the POWER hidden deep inside you, the STRENGTH that rises to the surface when needed, the safeguards of your soul, to protect and keep you, but not from the experiences in life that will mould you into a better being, a “higher” you, an ultimate version of the best you possible. Without powerful emotions, having loved and lost, we would miss out on a painful experience yes, but also on the opportunity to OPEN up our life and our heart to another, even for the briefest of times, and know the WONDER OF EVERYTHING encompassed in the HOPE that such happiness can bring to a soul.

You are what you ALLOW yourself to become, with your emotions so very powerful in shaping your thoughts and controlling your actions, so be careful what you hold onto, and if loss is something you are dealing with, remember that the pain eventually seeps away, even if it takes a lifetime, but the BLESSINGS of that love NEVER disappear from you.

Be THANKFUL for everyone in your life who has TOUCHED your soul and left a little piece of themselves embedded in your heart, for they are the gems that make your life so very SPECIAL AND IRREPLACEABLE, for no one else ever did, can, or will have YOUR spirit and the ability that YOU have to make that DIFFERENCE to OTHERS.

© 2012 Rosie Chee