Before and After
"I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen. The first of these came as a terrible shock and, like anything that changes you forever, split my life into halves: Before and After." - Ms. Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
In my last post, written almost a year ago, I shared my apprehension about growing up and letting go of my being a "young adult" and transitioning to being just an adult. It felt like I just went on with my life thinking I was still in my early 20's and then boom -- I just woke up and realized that I already belonged to the category of women in their late twenties.
And I was like, what have I done with my life?
That was me, a year ago. Everything else that happened from that time up until the very early stages of 2014 --- are things that I have learned to label in my mind as My Before.
But before what, exactly?
I feel like it was before I read this:
"Wouldn’t it be powerful if you fell in love with yourself so deeply that you would do just about anything if you knew it would make you happy? This is precisely how much life loves you and wants you to nurture yourself. The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. Then you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you the richest fulfillment from inside out." - Alan Cohen
Falling in love with yourself is a very tricky thing in this day and age. We look at other people and think, they're doing so much better than us and that we would want to be like them. But the moment I learned to fall in love with myself...oh wow.
WOW.
Maybe this is My After, or maybe a series of afters have yet to come. But my life has truly changed for the better when I started trying to love myself. To be more compassionate to myself. And the more I did it, the more the universe affirmed my worth.
Self love was difficult to practice but to sum up what I did, learned to "spring clean" my life. I let go of toxic people and environments, I cleaned up my eating habits, I went on a trip specifically targeted to let the soul rest, I quit habits that were harmful to me and developed habits that I knew would help me feel good inside and out. It has been quite an exciting endeavor and I look forward to the other things that I can do to help me love myself some more.
I promised myself that I will write about those things so that I won't forget should I ever feel the need to go through the process again.And just like my life,you will now see a difference in posts here in my blog all categorized into "Before THIS post" and "After THIS post." I even gave it a new URL and look!
So yes my life has now been split into halves. But I'm hella glad to be in the better half of it.
In my last post, written almost a year ago, I shared my apprehension about growing up and letting go of my being a "young adult" and transitioning to being just an adult. It felt like I just went on with my life thinking I was still in my early 20's and then boom -- I just woke up and realized that I already belonged to the category of women in their late twenties.
And I was like, what have I done with my life?
That was me, a year ago. Everything else that happened from that time up until the very early stages of 2014 --- are things that I have learned to label in my mind as My Before.
But before what, exactly?
I feel like it was before I read this:
"Wouldn’t it be powerful if you fell in love with yourself so deeply that you would do just about anything if you knew it would make you happy? This is precisely how much life loves you and wants you to nurture yourself. The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. Then you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you the richest fulfillment from inside out." - Alan Cohen
Falling in love with yourself is a very tricky thing in this day and age. We look at other people and think, they're doing so much better than us and that we would want to be like them. But the moment I learned to fall in love with myself...oh wow.
WOW.
Maybe this is My After, or maybe a series of afters have yet to come. But my life has truly changed for the better when I started trying to love myself. To be more compassionate to myself. And the more I did it, the more the universe affirmed my worth.
Self love was difficult to practice but to sum up what I did, learned to "spring clean" my life. I let go of toxic people and environments, I cleaned up my eating habits, I went on a trip specifically targeted to let the soul rest, I quit habits that were harmful to me and developed habits that I knew would help me feel good inside and out. It has been quite an exciting endeavor and I look forward to the other things that I can do to help me love myself some more.
I promised myself that I will write about those things so that I won't forget should I ever feel the need to go through the process again.And just like my life,you will now see a difference in posts here in my blog all categorized into "Before THIS post" and "After THIS post." I even gave it a new URL and look!
So yes my life has now been split into halves. But I'm hella glad to be in the better half of it.
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