Good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
This is one of my favorite quotes; this along with the butterfly one, which I'll explain next. I like it because it's short and sweet, but at the same time it says so much about how you should handle things. I feel like this is a perfect explanation of life, especially mine the last two years: just a series of different things you think you're happy about shattering into a thousand pieces, then you pick up the pieces and create something completely new, something that is only yours, and, much to your delight, it turns out to be even better than you could have imagined.
It's happened with my major, with training, with boyfriends, with best friends, with money, with jobs...and I love looking back at the times when I was just "content," and realizing how I was never really as happy as I thought. It makes me excited about what's in store for me. If I think I'm happy now, God knows what I'll feel like next year or the year after.
Or maybe I'll be in a completely different place; maybe my roller coaster will make a turn for the worse and I'll find myself in a slump, even worse than ever before. But the great part is, that too will fall apart, and something will happen and I'll feel on top again. It's comforting knowing these down times always get better, I love knowing that if you're at your lowest low point, the only way to go is up. As Mary Engelbreit once said, "If you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." Sometimes that's all it takes, just the strength to hang on and wait for some one or something to come along and pull you out of whatever hole you're sitting in.
It's funny how life is like that...in one insant everything can change.
So here is to letting the good things in life completely come apart...so that the better things can come together. After all, God can't hand you something knew until you let go of what you're holding, and sometimes this means letting all the pieces fall where they may.
love love love,
me
This is one of my favorite quotes; this along with the butterfly one, which I'll explain next. I like it because it's short and sweet, but at the same time it says so much about how you should handle things. I feel like this is a perfect explanation of life, especially mine the last two years: just a series of different things you think you're happy about shattering into a thousand pieces, then you pick up the pieces and create something completely new, something that is only yours, and, much to your delight, it turns out to be even better than you could have imagined.
It's happened with my major, with training, with boyfriends, with best friends, with money, with jobs...and I love looking back at the times when I was just "content," and realizing how I was never really as happy as I thought. It makes me excited about what's in store for me. If I think I'm happy now, God knows what I'll feel like next year or the year after.
Or maybe I'll be in a completely different place; maybe my roller coaster will make a turn for the worse and I'll find myself in a slump, even worse than ever before. But the great part is, that too will fall apart, and something will happen and I'll feel on top again. It's comforting knowing these down times always get better, I love knowing that if you're at your lowest low point, the only way to go is up. As Mary Engelbreit once said, "If you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." Sometimes that's all it takes, just the strength to hang on and wait for some one or something to come along and pull you out of whatever hole you're sitting in.
It's funny how life is like that...in one insant everything can change.
So here is to letting the good things in life completely come apart...so that the better things can come together. After all, God can't hand you something knew until you let go of what you're holding, and sometimes this means letting all the pieces fall where they may.
love love love,
me
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