Halcyon Elixir

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Confession Time

I said some terrible things I didn’t mean to say about a good friend of mine who has been nothing but good to me. Yes, I was provoked but in saying that, I should have at least held my calm composure.  I’m terribly sorry.  

I’m grateful for believing in a merciful, compassionate and faithful God who is faithful and just to forgive me and to cleanse away all my iniquities.  I’m made whole and perfect in God through Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior.  

Thank You Father God.  To God be All the Glory!

“If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar and His word is not in us.” (1 John 1:9)

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Drama-Free Life

“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.”  ~ William Gibson

Some people love drama.  

They love drama so much that if they lived through an hour without it, they’d go as far as pester the weak and disadvantaged, just to spark a fire that sucks out the entire positive, calm demeanor of these little ones.

At this point, I’m not writing as clearly as you’d want to understand where I’m coming from but you’d be pleased to know that it’s of course, my intention to do so.  Why?  Because this issue has affected my personal life and I intend on neutralizing this poison.

A  lot of people know me as nice woman with a pleasant personality.  I’m a nice young lady who speaks eloquently with very good manners.  It takes a long time to get me all fired up but when I do, I’m not going to lie, it gets ugly.  

I explode.  

I’m loud.  

I’m brutally honest to the point of rudeness.  

And the worst part of all is the fact that I see these people every day.

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My First Post (be kind!)

Its after 3 AM.  

And I’m still awake.  Not because of adrenaline of excitement pumping through my body but more so of the fact that I continuously splashed my post-party-makeup face with cold water which then led to the awakening of the bodily senses, further depriving me of sleep.  

So now that I’m wide awake, I might as well fill you in on how my evening went.

Nothing out of the ordinary, so lower your expectations.  

I had a great time catching up with the ladies who all looked divine by the way in their pretty mademoiselle hair and makeup.  I didn’t look too bad either given the flow of compliments that came my way from quite an enthusiastic elderly man around his mid-seventies.  (What?  Compliments from a grumpy looking old man doesn’t count?  Oh stop, you’re ruining )

The food, delicious as was the overflowing booze that stood like bowling pins on the sea of tables at the fundraiser dinner.

I personally enjoyed lively music from one of my favorite bands who delivered a terrific performance and soon after, we found ourselves jiving, jamming and whatnot on the dance floor.

But that’s not the reason I’m writing this.

I’m writing this to share of how awesome God is to have guided me into meeting someone who was to become very important to how I, well, sort of -you know, make room to amend certain changes in my current lifestyle.  

Here are some of the things about my girlfriends that I’m quite grateful to God for providing without fail (and about healthy ‘girl-friendships’ in general):

They give me my space.

When I’m busy during the semester but have no problems catching up from where we’ve left off in a way that’s not hurried or isolating.  

Yes, my past friendship circle was in dire straits as they found my phases of absence from their social scene as plain rude. They were also quick to assume that I was an elitist, preferring to choose time to study, over rock climbing with them.  There was also so much confusion within the friendship circle.  I didn’t understand some of the things they treated as the norm.  I believe its a cultural thing because I refuse to entertain the thought that they were collectively going through mid-twenty mood swings where they were bound to swing from one end of the spectrum of emotion like feeling absolutely pleased to greet me when we meet up at our usual hang outs to treating me as completely invisible.  The experience was absolutely frustrating and confusing and if its one thing I know quite well about myself, its that I dislike confusion.    

So I had to change.  

No, not me, but my circle of friends.  I didn’t make the changes by the way.  I just prayed about this situation to God, trusting Him to take care of it and two weeks later, He introduced me to my new network of friends.  Yep! You read that right: two weeks.  

Our current friendship circle bloomed naturally.  We’re now into our third year and I’m utterly and completely grateful to God for these awesome, crazy, diplomatic, intelligent, adventurous group of ladies. 

They support me and each other. 

Down-to-earth.

Practical.

Understanding.

Tolerant.

Stability.

Simple.

When one of the girlfriends cop a clipped wing, they are willing to make reservations to visit you, fight the battle alongside you and support you.  Whatever you want, whatever your reason, whatever cause you’re fighting for, they will adamantly support you.  For instance, if you’re driven to lose weight but you’re lacking the motivation, they’ll offer to join you in relieving your plight concerning weight loss.

They’re strongly rooted to the earth and grounded. Drama-free. Just cool, calm and collected and quite eager to extend help even to complete strangers who need it.  

Is that not the picturesque beauty of humanity to which we seek in each other?

I certainly believe it is.