Life Skills, What Are They?

When you really sit and think about it, this crazy thing called living boils down to mastering the following vital skills:

➼ Loving those who make your heart swell with immense tenderness as gently as you can without trying to “own” them or change them completely to fit into your little picture perfect because we all are beautifully imperfect, just as the life itself; 
➼ Fighting your own fight - whatever it may be - with as much dignity as you are capable of while trying to not let frustration, pain, envy, failure, dramatic curveballs thrown at you on an all-too-regular basis get the best of you along the way;
➼ Being accepting of all our differences - big or small - and seeing them as something that can unite us, help us grow and learn instead of creating a gigantic gap that is impossible to overcome;
➼ Helping whenever you can with whatever resources you have at hand and expect nothing in return - just like a fine saying goes: “Help and forget”;
➼ Giving yourself a break every now and again, but don’t stagnate for far too long. Believing in God’s plan predesigned for you is not at all a bad thing (deep down I do it too), but nothing is going to magically materialize unless you make it happen. 
➼ Steering clear of toxicity. Both in people you surround yourself with, things you do and consume - literally and figuratively speaking.

There is nothing fundamentally new or unique about it and, truth be told, I personally still struggle with a bigger chunk of these things, but hey, we all are a major work-in-progress and we have just lived yet another summer under the sun, so I consider it a win. ✨

The Key

Whenever you hit the darkest, filthiest, the most horrific of the rock bottoms imaginable,

thinking, "this is it, this time I am really done", 

just pause for a second and look at the tiniest daisy striking through the dirt, 

pulling through rock-hard unwatered ground. 

Regardless of the weather conditions, 

lack of rain or, on the contrary, its abundance 

that turns everything into a disgusting impotent mud unable to produce any plant or 

killing those remaining ones, nature still finds its way to replenish.

It never fails to try and try again. 

If you are searching for hope and signs of God's grace, love and forgiveness, 

nature is one of the things you should take a closer look it 

for it gives you the final answer. 

Always. 

Even when you - and I - deny it.