What’s in your cup

 

 

My cup was always half empty

In fact, it was bone dry

I would carry the weight of the world on my shoulders

And held onto resentments the size of boulders

I turned to drugs seeking absolution

That was until I started searching for different solutions

Instead of blaming everyone else and started taking responsibility for myself

I started practising more gratitude

Which helped shape my attitude

I’ve learned that I was my own worst critic

And that nobody cared more than me

I stopped listening to everyone else

And instead, I started to listen to myself

I cried oceans of tears

Before I started addressing my own fears

I learned to sit with uncomfortable feelings

Until I worked out their meanings

I learned how to connect all the dots

After untangling my thoughts

I’ve learned from my past mistakes

And figured out how to bounce instead of break

After years of thinking I was mad and eccentric

I now realise that I was just being authentic

Nowadays I go through life at my own pace

Instead of treating it like a race

I no longer see my past as being depressing

And take each lesson learned as a blessing

I’ve learned there are no guarantees in life

And none of us is immune from stress or strive

If I start feeling depressed

I remind myself how much I have progressed

I now no longer fear the unknown

Because I have emotionally grown

And after years of self-doubt

I no longer feel like the odd one out

 

#Shithappens

It’s how you deal with or respond to it that counts

 

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