Each Morning, I wake up and breathe,

but recently, I do it as if I have never done it before....

I open my eyes and see colors and shapes like new.

Vibrant visions unfold before me everywhere I look....

Even the evening sky, through darkest nights, the stars seem to twirl and dance.

I hear a drum. They must hear it too. It's the rhythm to which they move.

The noise I hear is foreign, but soothing.

There is a faint and distant rumble that roles forward like thunder and resolves into a melody I somehow know.

Strong but not fierce. Wild but not savage.

The song I hear seems to echo back my deepest desires, and remind my heart of something nearly forgotten....

...You...

You are the breath I breathe.

You are this world I see.

You are the melody I hear.

Yes, You are strong but not feirce. You are wild but not savage.

This song that I now sing, I will always sing for You.

1. "Be the change you wish to see in the world" -GHANDI

2. Never let the vision of having more make you lose sight of what you have.

3. Don't view the world through rose colored glasses... people who do this just give optimists a bad name... but rather choose to view the world realistically for exactly what it  is.... the good and the bad...the beauty and despair... but then take from that a vision of possibility. Let that notion of possibility excite you. Only then will you  start to see the world not as it is, but as it could be.... and that is HOPEFUL.

LASTLY...

4.Don't be discouraged by pain, tears or scars... they're proof you had the guts to live.

To laugh often and much;

To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;

To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;

To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others;

To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.

This is to have succeeded.

--- inaccurately attributed to
 Ralph Waldo Emerson