Motivation

It is too sad that we cannot infiltrate people with the fierce motivation we wish they could have...we know they would have...we know they will have. It is sad because we are able to love and what hurts those we love hurts us in our most fleshy and tender crevices. The truth is...whether it be unfortunate, or as I think it, fortunate...motivation comes from you. You are its sole maker. It cannot be bought, borrowed, or bagged...and good motivation can't even be broken; it cannot even be bruised. It can be bolstered only by your own faith in you--only in self begotten form is it real, raw, royal, resistant, and rebellious to the degree necessary for its subsistence.
Devise a reconnaissance of yourself and find motivation where it may lie--where it may lie caged and hungry for battle within you. Know what you can do and summon the source slumbering within you to do it. Let your fears fly.

Inspiration

Inspiration is everywhere. It is in a child's smile and the kiss of first love. It is in the joy of genuine innocence and in the excitement of lustful novelty. Inspiration blooms within us. It is the ability to perceive our own emotions and allow them to translate into bouts of whimsical and catalytic inspiration. Let it infiltrate your spirit. Let inspiration fuse into the veins that encapsulate your blood and make the saline sense of you become sweet with faith in tomorrow.

JJR

My Wise Friend Said...

My wise friend M. said something rather brilliant today, "Happiness is always an option."
In a world where stressors can so easily attack us and blur out perspectives with regressive fog, just remember that happiness is painless and always available. Although it comes naturally to us to think of the problems in our lives and the traumas that cut through out flesh and burn in our souls, we must make a magnanimous effort to remember the good --for it is the good that makes life worth living. In the end, it is the good that keeps us sane in this sea of psychosis.
Sometimes we just have to stop and ask, "Why be sad, when being happy is painless?"
JJR

What is Love?

Well, isn't this a funny question.
If in movies, fairy-tales, and literature we are taught that love should be the effortless and nearly magical joining of two souls, does this not set us up for disappointment? Considering the many factors and lessons to be learned through the journey of loving, it is unfair that love gets portrayed so artificially in all that we see and read. Love is about trials, risks, mistakes, memories, tires, joys, moments of unexplainable bliss--as well as unexplainable anxiety. Love is the tears if sorrow from our eyes and butterflies of joy and anticipation from the pits of our stomachs. Because love is constantly portrayed as a thing beyond us--beyond our control, our desires, our wished, and our circumstances--it is conflicting to believe and know that in our daily lives love is actually all of these things. This reality can make us feel abnormal when in fact it is completely reasonable for love to be a grand conglomeration of everything and nothing at once. The truth is that the only thing that forever marks love's existence is endurance--our perseverance in the belief in what we share with another person, our hope in the relationship we create with another for that relationship is a child that must be nurtured and fed each day. It cannot live on without our faith and care--without our constant effort to keep is, not only alive, but flourishing and growing, it cannot survive. Love is what we make of our relation with another person. It is merely that which you and the other person decide it should be. Love is not something that falls down from the sky and lands on our soul so that we forever see the light of the world through another person's eyes. The love you have and the love you lose is a product of what YOU, and the person you chose to create love with, make. The realization that we have much more control over love than that which is portrayed in the media, movies, and books, can give us the strength we need to create the kind of love that makes us stronger than what we can ever be on our own--the kind of love that is well worth the work, the energy, the time, the hope, the believe, the self-sacrifice, the perseverance, the fortitude, and the genuine humanity that we invoke to create it.