What's up beautiful people! Welcome back to Word Up Wednesday!
Your Mid - Week Dose of Inspo!
Today is February 21, 2024 approximately three days before my Birthday which is February
24th and I must say, I am very excited for this new year of life. Which is a new thing for me simply because somewhere between my upperclassman years in high school and my early twenties I associated my birthday with rejection.
Memory Lane
During the time frame mentioned above I had a small core group of friends that I loved deeply and truly thought would be lifelong friendships. With that in mind I naturally loved giving what I could and always being the friend they could rely on; especially when it came to birthdays!
Unfortunately that was never really reciprocated when it came to friends during that period in my life so I absorbed it as rejection.
Therefore, every year when my Birthday would come around I would experience sadness and rejection like clock work. I would cry, sulk in my sorrow and engage with negative thoughts. I would even battle with whether or not my special day was worth celebrating at all. Fortunately something special would always come around which led to a great time and much love but not without first being visited by sadness and rejection.
Present Day
Now that I am older and wiser, I now know the power of agreements; which means if you believe it then it is so! In other words never expect other people to express the way you love them back to you because people express differently and never agree with the negative voice in your head.
I spent so many years of my life entertaining the perceived truth that people didn't like me nor did they love me, but when I began paying attention to the words people actually spoke to me all I heard were affirmative, loving and words of reverence.
Sum it up Paris! Dang. (lol)
Anyways! So, yes! I am excited for this new year of life, I am grateful for all of my experiences and the wisdom they provided me, and I absolutely love all the teachers along the way, all of the supporters and encouragers along the way, and even the not so kind folks along the way because they were all apart of my growing process.
I pray this was helpful for someone today and if it was always remember that if the agreements within yourself are curating sadness, anxiety, depression, and other negative feelings then it is time to create a new agreements with yourself. Instead of telling yourself "They don't like me or love me" you would turn it around and say "Everyone loves me and likes me! I am the coolest person in the room".
And as long as you believe it, then it is so!
Because You Deserve To Live A Great Life.
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