When I first happened upon this image on one of my favorite websites, Pinterest, I thought, "weird... this seems ironic that the world LOVE is rooted (backwards, but still there) in such a powerful word like Revolution." After thinking about it, it only seems fitting that a strong passion - to me love is THE strongest - into a word that puts passion into action. Revolution evokes a passion within people to create a change. I think to begin a revolution, love must be at the root - a love for others to help you to change something, a love for what you want to change, and ultimately a love for self to dignify the change.
We all must find love foremost within ourselves to create any type of change - whether that be as intense as a revolution or just a simple change in how we do our hair. I know that I love myself, from where my hairs come out of my head, to the ticklish parts on the bottoms of my feet; however, my brain likes to play tricks on me. There are these things, we all have them, called negative voices. They are in our brain and what we mostly need to remember is that THEY ARE NOT YOU. These negative voices come from negative events in your life (maybe you've failed at something before), negative people in your life (maybe someone you looked up to wasn't the most supportive), and overall from negative propaganda surrounding you (hello popular magazines and your fancy, perfect women). If these voices are not YOU then you have the voice that controls you and everything you think about yourself.
The tricky part is turning these negative voices off and not allowing them a place in your head anymore. I find myself not even hearing voices sometimes and just feeling emotions of doubt, frustration, and unwillingness to come out of my comfort zone - all of these feelings are not me, they are feelings from something that happened in my past. So I will make it a point next time to pause and think about why I am thinking these negative things and convince myself that those negative feelings and thoughts are no longer allowed in my head. Easy, right? NOT! Each day will hit me with new mountains to overcome and I can only hope that remembering who I am, deep down inside - a strong, independent, proud, faithful woman who is full of LOVE to give to others and myself and deserving of all the love in the world - will get me to take the right path to get to the top.
"See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed" - Maya Angelou
The tricky part is turning these negative voices off and not allowing them a place in your head anymore. I find myself not even hearing voices sometimes and just feeling emotions of doubt, frustration, and unwillingness to come out of my comfort zone - all of these feelings are not me, they are feelings from something that happened in my past. So I will make it a point next time to pause and think about why I am thinking these negative things and convince myself that those negative feelings and thoughts are no longer allowed in my head. Easy, right? NOT! Each day will hit me with new mountains to overcome and I can only hope that remembering who I am, deep down inside - a strong, independent, proud, faithful woman who is full of LOVE to give to others and myself and deserving of all the love in the world - will get me to take the right path to get to the top.
"See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed" - Maya Angelou
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