To Love a Child

Children are precious. They're innocent. Impressionable. Curious. Learning. Growing. Cute. And they're giggly, oh are they ever. They smile. They cry. They get mad, but never for long. They need. They want. Most importantly: they love, and need to be loved.

In everything we do and say. In our habits and routines, they follow, they learn and they repeat. You are a child's role model. It doesn't really matter who you are. If you are older, they look up to you. Give them good reason to. Show them the right way to act, teach them about life, about fun, but more than anything teach them how to love. Let them be loved.

The deepest satisfaction in an individuals life is to love and be loved back. Children need to be nurtured and comforted. They need to be held and kissed, rocked and cuddled. You gotta let them climbed on you, play with your hair, get piggy back rides and fall asleep in your lap. If they wanna hold your hand, why on earth would you say no? Grab their hand and don't let go until they do. Give them a gentle squeeze and let them know you care about them, that you're there for them and above all give them they love they deserve.

Children only get to be little for so long. A short period we all got to experience of stress-free, worry-free and fun loving life. Oh what I wouldn't do to go back, even just for a day. So let them be little, cause they're only that way for so long. Bring out the pots and pans and let them break a few wooden spoons and dent a few metal bowls. So what if you get crayon on the wall, it will wash off. Stepped on another leggo, yeah it hurts, the pain will go away. Break out the coloring books, playdough, dress up and play house. Take out all the blankets and build forts. Pop out the tent in the living room and pretend you're camping. Laugh. Smile. LOVE.

 

A child simply wants to feel wanted. They want to know they're not alone. Yeah, they wanna be independent, but when they turn around they want to see you back there watching. Be there for them. Through everything. Not just when they're little, but as they grow up. They're your future, they're our future. Teach them how to love. Children are brought into this dark world, because it need light that only a child can bring. Give them the light they need so they can light up the world.

This one's for the girls.

Sometimes the thought of simply being him, even as just a friend is better than nothing. It is bittersweet. Something is better than nothing at all, right? At least you are him, at least you feel like he needs you.

What do you have to do for him to see you standing right before his eyes. When there is hope anything is possible. We hold on to the chance that there is a slight possibility that he will notice us. You always have his back, you're the quick drive over when he needs you. You think sooner or later he'll realize you are everything that he needed, but he never sees you standing right in front of him.

She just messes him up. His friends don't like her. She is nothing like him, she doesn't even know his favorite band or how he absolutely hates yellow apples . You can't help but think what he could possibly be getting out of this. He always talks and pours his heart out to you. You just want to take his hand and show him that he doesn't have to live like that.

You start to wonder am i not good enough? Should i wear lipstick? Get a new hair cut? Go to the gym more? Holding on like this hurts, it stresses you out. You can't wait around forever for him, but you don't know what to say or do to make him come around.

He'll be sorry when he realizes you are no longer there. He will realize that you were everything he needed and everything he wants. When you give up on being second best, when you stop waiting around, he's gonna wish he had you. Sometimes the best way to get some body's attention is to stop giving them yours. When he realizes what he had with you is gone, he might finally realize all that you have done for him, and realize how happy you made him.

You can only hold on for so long before the rope breaks. You can't tie a knot at the end of the rope when it is no longer in tact. You have to know when to walk away. It hurts to want everything and nothing at the same time. You just want whats yours, your heart. When you walk away and leave him all alone, he is going to wish he had you. He is going to know that when he was busy chasing after what he thought he wanted, what he needs was always there. Someday he'll realize you were everything he really wanted.

Kiss It All Better

At times everybody falls down, we all stumble and we all trip. But when you hit the floor it is important to keep on crawling if that's the least you can do. Never stop trying, and never stop believing it can get better.

Even in the worst of times everybody has something to be thankful for. Sometimes its hard to find the light when you keep looking in the dark. If you turn your back to the shadows you are bound to find the sun. Because even in the clouds there is always a silver lining.

Everybody cries sometimes, or at least feels sorry for themselves at times. Anybody who says they don't are either lying or lack a human soul. Since when is crying a sign of weakness. Sometimes you do not realize how strong you are were until you are at your weakest point. And a sign of true strength is to keep on fighting through it.

It is not always easy to admit that you need help, but chances are that when you do ask for help the person will not look down upon you, but rather respect you for admitting that you need the help. After all, at times all we need is for somebody to kiss it all better. Tender touches and comforting words go further than we may think.

Cause You've Only Got 100 Years to Live

It seems like only yesterday I was playing on the monkey bars and tire swings at my elementary school. Playing with crayons and practicing cursive while drink out of those little milk chugs. Next thing I blink and I am an adult. Where has the time gone? I was just a little girl yesterday, and now I am young lady. It is incredible how fast time goes, I don't want to miss a second of this here-today-gone-tomorrow world we are living in.

It is crazy how fast time goes. I look back and I do not remember the days, but I remember the special memories I have made, the goals I have accomplished and, of course the tragedies. Your hourglass only has so much sand, when it runs out you cannot tip it over and start again. Sometimes I catch myself caught up in this fast paced life. I have to remind myself often of what is important to me, and that I need to put first things first. We cannot let the chaos sometimes present in the world around us change who we are, or who we want to be.

Next thing I know I'll wake up one morning and I'll have a family. Little babies to take care of, who in the blink of an eye will be all grown up themselves. It is important to cherish the time that we have with children, and to just let them be little, because they won't be little forever.

 Take every breath God gives you for what it is worth and make the most of the time you have with those you love. For tomorrow is not granted to us nor our family and friends. You could let just life pass you by, but most of us would wake up one day from the haze and regret that we let time pass us in that way. You only get one life, so fall in love with as many things as possible. That is what life is all about. Love friends and family, pets and places, love the world you live in and the life you have been given. Fall in love with your soul mate, and share each others hopes and fill each others dreams. Make the most out of the life you have been given.

Lions make you brave. Giants give you faith.

I want to get through it myself, just this once. I'd prefer not to be rescued. It's gonna be a challenge, probably harder than I even think it's going to be. But for once I wanna get through things myself, so please don't get me rescued.

I can tell that there is going to be somebody out there raising hell to get me rescued. But when things go from good to bad, I need to know that I can depend on myself, and only myself to come back through. To know that I am strong enough and as capable as I believe I can be. I may be a girl and we are all weak and vulnerable at times, but it runs in my blood: I am a fighter.

Chances are that I will fall multiple times before I ever get up off my knees, but what is wrong with that? Each and every time I fall, I will learn how to get up the next time a little easier. Babies fall when they learn to walk, but you turn your head and next thing you know they are running. Before I soar I need to learn to fly.

They say what does not kill you will only make you stronger. I believe in this 100%. Things can go from good to bad within seconds, and more than often it takes more than seconds to get things back to good again. If I can make things "good" all by myself once, then I know the next time I will be able to get back up again, each time, in theory, it should get a little easier.

Sure, at times it is all the heart desires to have a crying shoulder. But their is not going to be a shoulder there every time. Sometime all you need is to be in the dust left to rust, and gather the strength from within ourselves to keep pushing through. We all get weak at times, but it's always darkest just before the dawn. Life is never hopeless and we all have scars, bruises and wounds, but there is never a reason to give up. Once you have hit rock bottom the only way to go is up. And if you can find a way to bring yourself up, all alone, you have then proved to yourself that you are strong, even when just before you felt so weak.


You never know your full potential until you push yourself to the breaking point, until you push yourself to do what seemed impossible. The challenges that the world and God present us with are meant to make us brave and give us faith. You don't always have to be safe, secure and comforted by the hands of somebody else to be unafraid. Everybody is capable of rescuing themselves.

I'll stay me I dont need no swag, whatever that is..

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Spring: When hope is in the air.

I want spring to come right now. The days start getting a little longer, the weather a little warmer, and the earth a little greener. Flowers start to bloom making the air a little sweeter, and new green grass begins to grow, replacing the cold, hard ground winter left behind.

Everything changes in spring, it becomes brighter and happier. But perhaps the reason I am most anxious about spring is because it means summer is right around the corner; or maybe because it creates the feeling of hope.

The dark and gloomy days of winter are replaces by the warmer and sunnier days of spring. Hope envelopes everybody; a feeling that everything is going to be okay and turn out the best. Because everything always can turn out for the best. There is something positive in every situation, no matter how bad, if you open you're eyes enough you can find it.

To many and to most winter may seem bad, but the lesson is that if you hang on long enough better days will come; figuratively and literally. Sometimes its hard to look aways cause they daylight doesn't ever stay, but somewhere the sun is always shining, if you cannot find it then look harder.