Encouragement

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VOICES


Do you ever feel lost, really lost? Like the whole world is made up of round holes and you’re the only square peg. I’ve felt this way most of my life and I don’t know why but I just feel I don’t quite fit. Sure, I can be the life of the party, but inside, I always feel so desperately lonely and unattached from everyone else.

What makes us feel this way? What is this haunting voice inside us that tells us we are less than the rest of the human race?

Lately I’ve grown tired of that voice. This same tape has been playing in my head long enough and I want to hear something new. Something that is positive, something that is alive! This voice from the past tells me I can’t make it. I’m not good enough. I’m a looser. Who in the world has the right to tell me or anyone else this anyway? Who do they think they are to classify me? No one knows the me that is hidden deep inside. As a matter of fact, I don’t really know the me inside either. But I’m willing to find out.

It’s time to challenge this unknown voice. For too long it’s been like the school yard bully pushing me around and making me cower in fear. Let’s see how tough he really is. As I’ve begun to do this, I’ve found out that this invisible thug is nothing but a bunch of hot air! I’ve discovered that thoughts and memories can’t harm me unless I let them. I’m learning to stand up to their aqusations and tell them right to their face that I’m not such a bad person after all. I may not be perfect and I may have made a few (well, more than a few) mistakes, but I’m no looser. In fact, the more I think about it, I have a lot to offer and a whole lot of living to do before I’m done. I have decided that I’m going to enjoy what time I have left here on earth! I don’t intend to make excuses for my life or feel guilty because I might be using up someone else’s air.

One of the things I love to do is to take all my favorite songs and put them on to one tape. That way I can listen to them as I drive along in my car. It occurred to me that I needed to make an internal tape of all kinds of wonderful thoughts and positive sayings about life as well as myself. It was time to erase the old tape and put on some new upbeat tunes. Tunes that make me feel alive. Ones that made me feel happy and gave me hope.

Got any old tapes you need to throw away? Why not start listening to and believing something positive for a change. It’s similar to the times when you are driving in your car and you turn to a radio station you don’t like. What do you do? You simply turn to another station until you find one you like. We need to do the same with these voices we’ve been listening to.

I suggest that if you are tired of listening to that same old dreary tune going round and round in your head, then, maybe you need to change the station.

Heard any good tunes lately?

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