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Is Leading a Peaceful Life as Easy as Letting Love Be the Guiding Light?
I sure hope so because I don’t know what else to do at this point
I can’t make everybody happy.
Been there, and tried to do that, for the better part of seven decades.
Whatever I do, it’s likely somebody is going to be pissed at me.
Everybody has their own agenda, and it’s not realistic to think I can satisfy each and every one.
Especially while at the same time
being true to my authentic self
The bottom line is
I need to trust in my heart and then let go.
If you can’t forgive me for my mistakes, so be it.
I need to learn to forgive myself for my mistakes, knowing I am only human and I will make mistakes and at least I tried my very best.
Even better, I deserve a giant pat on my back for giving my best effort, sometimes under very challenging circumstances.
I have engaged in decades of self-torture because I have been attached to results, operating under the delusion I can…