Life Happens FOR Us

You CAN be a victim of your life.

Life can be one miserable experience after another. Waking up every day to see 'What will go wrong today?'

Reading every event that occurs to you as 'What else is new? These things ALWAYS happen to me...'

This is a great way to waste this amazing gift called LIFE. A great way to throw away the amazing bio-computer called 'The Brain'.

It is the life of a Victim. Victim of life. Victim of circumstance.

It IS an option. An option many people opt for, most unknowingly. It's a very tiring, draining, depressing way of living.

But hey, guess it works for those people.

But the TRUTH is, there is no arguing this point, that life is a GIFT.

And NOTHING happens TO us. Everything happens FOR us.

I am never a victim of circumstance. I am the CREATOR of my choices and reactions.

Everything life gives me is something I can look at and decide. "How do I want to use this? How do I want to respond to this? Or do I want to just let it go as if it never happened?"

I can wake up every day excited, "What does life have in store for me today? What do I want to CREATE in my life today? What would be fun and amazing today? Will I create that or just watch my life unfold, like a movie, and go make some popcorn to enjoy the show?"

Even seemingly 'miserable' things can lose their miserable effect on us when we are not riding an emotional roller coaster as if life is throwing us around, and rather viewing it from the outside as something I get to CHOOSE how to respond to.

I was thinking about this last night. Often people ask of each other, or as thought-provoking posts on Facebook, "If you could do one thing differently than what you've done, what would it be?"

Or, "If you knew that you'd face (xyz struggle) if you did what you did, would you choose something else?"

And honestly, I have to say, I can't think of anywhere I would agree to that. When I know life is happening FOR me, that means whatever I am experiencing I NEED for my life, how can I go about cutting out pieces that I don't understand? How ridiculous does that sound?

I believe in a Higher Power very much so. So I know G-d is leading and constructing my life. But even if you don't believe so, how many times can you think in your own life where you thought something was bad and it turned out to be good? How many times can you pinpoint that seemed REALLY bad, and those were the catalysts for the biggest amazing changes?

When I stop being a victim and look at life creatively and powerfully, I can ALWAYS find those instances.

When life is happening FOR me, instead of TO me, I never have to regret ANYTHING. I am always learning, using, and creating the next best thing.

Wouldn't you like that as well?