WONDERFULLY CRAFTED

Sometimes when I look around me, I easily lose sight of what I had in mind to do before taking a look around me. I feel like focusing on what’s on my mind is less important at that moment because the noise all around me sounds interesting and calling. I drift from all my plans and I dance to the music of what is not of importance to me (not intentionally though). And just like that, my focus keeps shifting until I get to a crossroad and maybe I’ll realize what I’m doing.

Life can be noisy. Defining the pattern we are to follow and stealing from us the ability to stay focused and determined because that’s a powerful tool to accomplishing something great from life (this is our thoughts most times - life is the bad guy). We have heard this saying before, “Nothing good comes easy”. That saying might mean different things to different people but for me, it means the good things we want don’t come to us on a platter of gold. You have to work for them, go through some sort of pain or even make some sacrifices before you can get something good from life.

There is no throne without a cross. Most times, when the going gets hard we complain, get frustrated and even try to give up. But then, that is even when we ought to keep going because we are getting closer to achieving all we have been hoping for. Giving up is something that I have been giving some thoughts to lately because it feels too hard sometimes and I don’t want to care about anything anymore but just let it all go. Yes, it gets to that point when you have even given up but somehow you find yourself hoping again and putting in the effort again to see if this time will be better.

One question I love to ask myself is, what could be my role in all of this? If life is throwing certain circumstances my way, what is it trying to make me learn and how can I learn it? No matter the emphasis on a particular word in a sentence (mostly the subject), it only makes sense because of the other words (like the verb) in that sentence. I might be insignificant in some ways but that doesn’t mean I should stay that way - I could be the subject at some point too. I can’t always know my role in the different situations I find myself but one thing I always tell myself is to always be useful.

I wasn’t even created in the first place to be dormant. I was created for so much more and the more life keeps throwing those storms at me, the more I see how much the universe loves me. Why? Because I come out even more beautiful all the time like gold. The part of getting refined? Oh! That’s the hardest part and at that point I think and say life is unfair to me but when I don’t give up, I become a masterpiece - a piece created and crafted by the master himself.

You hate pain right? I do too but have you ever taken time to examine yourself in all of that (the pain) before? If no, you should probably do that more because that’s the only way you can appreciate pain. Everything is good. It only becomes bad when it is in excess. And most times it becomes excess when we don’t understand and use it as it should.

Thank you for reading through. ❤️