Be Free in 2010...Comfortable with yourself!

Stake your claim for your own personal freedom in 2010. Forget all the excuses, going along to get along, trying to avoid conflict as if it’s a dirty word, when it’s needed for resolution. No, you won’t slay all of life’s problem with winning one battle or several, so enjoy today and allow tomorrow to have it’s day! There'll always be something that needs fixing, repairing, mending; life is full of fragments, puzzle pieces begging for our attention. The good thing is that we get to pick and choose our battles, response to outright idiots, button pushers, control freaks and yes, even to the legions of haters who swarm this earth! I truly believe freedom is what we’re all searching for in some shape or manner. Whether it’s financial freedom, religious freedom, self-acceptance and self-approval freedom, our hearts thrive off of freedom. Freedom to risk love with the possibility of getting our hearts broken and trampled on once again or the freedom to do what we love for a living or the freedom to exercise courage and be the person who doesn’t join in to ostracize the person taking a brutal beating of alienation. Freedom is so precious, any type of oppression is draining and dehabilitating.

So if you’re catching hell on your job, a job you love or just there for a much needed paycheck, keep the feeling and reality of freedom alive, regardless of what today looks like! Let your freedom ring when others feel uncomfortable around you because they can’t hear the song in your heart and understand the philosophy of your mind! Just stand back when you see the feelings of inadequacy make individuals react to you in a harsh or deceptive manner, they actually like what they see, I mean feel. Take a deep breath when a hater is in your mist and want to assign some bogus blame or launch inflammatory comments to and about you, it’s what we humans do when we feel frighten, less than and allow our egos to govern our emotions.

You just might have to sever ties with people you love with all your heart, but you’ve become “frenemies.” It’s ok, the departure just means that you two have completed what you were supposed to do and share at this time, who knows what the future might hold. It’s imperative to understand human nature if you are to be free. So many of our headaches come out of our relationships and they do determine the quality of our life. I’m not talking about things, but what and how we share. Our sharing is what makes us fulfilled and it takes freedom. Free from acute self-consciousness, wondering if everyone is looking at your flaws, often you’re only one with a microscope and distorted view. For naysayers and those human beings with envy and jealousy oozing out of their pores, allow them to have their way, you just step back and observe them in futile pursuit. Now with freedom comes integrity, wisdom, humor and joy. Be a wise friend, attend to your needs, along with the people you help to take care of and nurture. We nurture with our spirit and soul as we rock and soothe those caught in a tight spot, between that perrenial rock and a hard place, the disillusioned and disenfranchised within balance and giving only what we can afford. When we sacrifice, make sure first and foremost the person can receive what it is we have to give and share.  People can easily take, but to receive is not often the case for those in need! We consume, over consume, so our desires become insatiable and the mere insanity of never feeling full makes his selfish, greedy, empty and sometimes cruel.  It takes freedom to walk the talk, to pursue dreams, to share and operate with a heart if generosity and  integrity.  It takes courage to fight for our individual freedom, to accept what we can't change, to keep forging ahead after one set-back after another.  But, one day or in simple moment, we realize that we're free, full and whole as works-in-progress!