Hope and Quitting.

Well it's been a crazy week for America, and lets face it the world is a hard place, wars happen, bombs strike and loved ones die. I come from a very drama childhood so I have my own ways of coping. I have found that having hope and stepping away are immensely useful. First lets get in to stepping away, many people get very down on the word or act of quitting, but the deal is you never quit till you die. So stop for a minute or if you have the ability for the day, and take the time to be okay, by agknowlaging that you're not okay you are hurt, shocked and maybe scared. What this does is let you build yourself back up by building a safe place. I tend to go to a trusted book or TV series that is beloved, this bit of familiar stability is a routine of caring for myself that lets me tap a source of happy healthy that is associated with the time I first indulged in that title. This week it was Avatar: The Last Airbender, Book 2, and in it there was a great quote from Uncle Iroh "No! Zuko! You must never give in to despair. Allow yourself to slip down that road and you surrender to your lowest instincts. In the darkest times, hope is something you give yourself. That is the meaning of inner strength". I love this, it is so true, we are the source of our own hope and sometimes we need to fill ourselves with it. So just like picking our friends and our media intake we need to find places of hope to replenish when so much has been lost. This is not quitting or running away this is closing our eyes turning off the news and breathing. The cultural instinct to shame stoping is just not humanly smart, we need rest we need breathers we need hope especially when things get harder. So when the going gets tuff stop rebuild stronger and get going! Also Mr Rogers = PS if you are looking for a happy place as more of a distraction, I highly suggest Pinterest I have a wall there for my page Every Body is different