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Well, allow me tell you!  Stop feeling and acting like a victim.  I know we are victims of those self-proclaimed ones, but it doesn’t mean we have to life our lives feeling like one!

I’m telling you… it’s doable!  You’re in control of your own life and feelings… You own that control… and it’s not a remote one… no one can take it from your hand… it’s yours… no one can touch it unless you want them to… unless you let them.

We always have several choices whenever we have to make a decision.  Yeah, we can call it joy vs anger, work vs laziness or, how about a really hard one like drugs!!!  There’s a little voice there telling us what to do, it’s just that… sometimes… we don’t listen to it… Nah! we listen to the easy one… we only listen to the one that implicates - absolutely - no effort and that decision, usually, has the worst consequences.

That’s what this is all about… making choices… deciding… and living with the consequences.  If you are willing to grab the bull by its horns and live life as it presents itself to you… go ahead, take the freaking choice you want and live with it!  Embrace your consequences and don’t complain.

If you have chosen to let someone else have control over your life and decisions then… the only guilty party is you… you gave it away… stop calling yourself a victim and do something about it.  Regain control of your life and enjoy being the leader of it.

When you feel that someone is affecting you in a negative way… that is… like he or she is stealing your ‘chi’… walk your mind away… I’m not saying you should, literally, up and leave… but you have the power to disconnect from that negativity and not let he or she rob you from your healthy, quiet, peaceful state of mind… although you can - actually - up and leave if you really wanted to!

Scenario! imagine someone screaming and yelling at you.  The phone rings.  And he answers the phone calmly… as soon as he hangs up… he goes on with the yelling and the screaming.  See?  That’s gotta be control, right?  He decided to pause his performance to answer the freaking phone all calmed down… and then decided to go on afterwards with the show!  That, my friends (as McCain would say), is called CONTROL!

We’ve all had this sort of scenarios placed in front of us… I experienced some like it in the past… only, had I made it evident then… I wouldn’t be here telling you about it now.  She would have smacked my soul out in a second!

I’m not trying to change the game… I just want you to understand what the rules of the game are.   So as to stop behaving like a freaking martyr… to stop victimizing our own selves!  I’m telling you that you can be happy and feel joy and peace… in spite of it all… in spite of having a sad sad story.

So, what will you do with that anger?  What will you do with that feeling of helplessness that some SPV instilled in you?  Where the heck are you going?! Where do you want to go?

Sadness, depression, anger… I mean, all of those negative feelings turn us off and shatter our hopes.  It’s so easy to feel that way, to let yourself go like that… I’m telling you that you can get up and feel new, if you let those feelings go.  You cannot control those around you, but you can control how you feel about them… it’s a choice… and there’s a consequence to it.

My sister doesn’t like that ‘decisions and consequences’  expression I repeat so much… she says it sounds intimidating… well, let me tell you… that some consequences to some decisions made, can turn out great and beautiful… as a consequence to a good decision… like, when you work… the consequence is money, right?

Choices - decisions - consequences… live your life to the fullest… grateful for what you have and will have, instead of living depressed for what might have been and wasn’t.

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