#breaking labels

[wickedzeevyln]

✮ You're Beautiful ✮

You’re Beautiful Take it all in. All the wonderful, and slam the door shut and leave the cold where it is. Don’t let your heart wander and stray in limbo, aching from the sharp phrases they poke you with. You alone hold who you are. You are more than the reflection you wear, held with illicit tags and labels from onlookers who know less. As you are, the beautiful days are ahead of…

✮ You're Beautiful ✮

[wickedzeevyln]

✮ Just ✮

As an adjective, ‘just’ means honorable and fair, but as soon as it dresses up as an adverb, it becomes an oppressor, diminishing the value of anything it touches. A Midas’s touch in reverse. I’m just [insert a title]. I’m just a plumber. I’m just a kid. I’m just this. I’m just that. Nothing else. How about the plumber who conquered the world? Anyone would love to read that book. When in doubt…

✮ Just ✮

[alasake]

I wrote this from a place of truth. Too often, we’re told to hold back ourselves and act "right". If you’ve ever carried that weight, this piece is for you.

"The Weaker Sex" How Society Clipped Women’s Wings

[loganbriana]

Labels

I’m a big fan of Criminal Minds and my favorite scene of the entire series is in Season 6 Episode 2 called “JJ.” It’s when we say goodbye to JJ and the episode ends with a monologue of her saying this,

“I’m thankful for my years spent with this family, for everything we shared, every chance we had to grow. I’ll take the best of them with me and lead by their example wherever I go. A friend…

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[10-minute-blogger-blog]

Doing what's right.

The phrase doing what's right instead of what's easy is a phrase I have heard this a lot during my athletic career, and my sales career. It really does make a difference. I did not want to wake up this morning, but I knew that if I was going to make this a habit, I had to- even on Sunday. I used this a lot in college, but for different reasons.

After I transferred schools after my freshman year, I was back in my home town. Just to give you an idea about the size, you would probably recognize everyone in town in under a week, give it a month and you would know everyone's name. Coming back home made me have to see some of the people that used to pick on me in elementary school- high school. Funny thing about bullies, they tend to not be nicer without an audience. So this was the first time people started being nice to me all the time.

I didn't like it, I was holding huge grudges on every little thing. Then it hit me, it isn't going to make me feel better if I am always mad. I silently forgave them. I started to come with peace with what happened and didn't want the past to effect who I am now. I got a whole lot happier once I came with peace.

I could have easily been a jerk to them and put up my defensive wall. I didn't want to do that, going back to breaking labels, I didn't want to be a victim for the rest of my life. I still remember all the mean things people used to say to me and do, but I did the right thing and forgave them. I was shocked how much better I felt after I started doing doing the right thing opposed to what was easier.