The Sun Will Rise and So Will We

by Jennae Cecelia

The past is behind you. If you want new beginnings, then stop looking back. Stop reliving the past. Shift your focus to the future you can have.

One day came and one day went. So when are you going to make it happen? Are you really going to say, one day again?

It isn’t that their life is better than yours, you just see them when their lights are turned on and windows wide open. Everyone has problems behind closed curtains.

Here I bloom because I want to. Not because I was told to smile and look pretty. I bloom for myself now. I always knew I had it within me.

“Don’t forget to be thankful for another day where you wake up with the sun,” they say. But it is okay not to be okay. Lay low and take it slow. Having a bad day doesn’t make you ungrateful.

I took a wrong turn. Hit a dead end. Wrong turn again. But I am on my way. That’s what matters. At least I am still driving with my destination in mind. I could have just given up on the roadside.

Your star brought me more light, but I am the moon so even without yo...

Anxiety has a way of robbing me from living in the present. I worry about what the future holds. Children? Illnesses? Debt? I dwell on things I did in the past. Waving hi to the wrong person. Saying, "you too" to the waitress who definitely wasn't about to enjoy her meal. Anxiety has a way of making me feel like I am moving forwards and backwards but neither one lasts.

Never stop asking those big questions or moving with an adventurous heart. You have so much good to come. This is just the start.

You have the power to live out your own story. Don’t change the script to please someone else. You read beautifully by yourself.

You can’t stay in today forever. Whether it is good or bad. Whether you want to or not. Nothing is permanent. It is ...

You may feel like you are constantly back and forth between the messy chaos and the calm. But that is where you d...

I know you are afraid to take that next step. But you have to move either way, so make it towards the direction you want to get.

Life doesn’t come with a blueprint for you to place on a wall and look at for guidance. Life is about drawing free-hand as you go and not anticipating things to be provided.

My legs haven’t seen the sun in at least five years. My legs haven’t jumped into a pool or a lake since I discovered that I am supposed to critique my body and fill it with words of hate. But now as I enter into later years of life, I realized my legs have missed out on a lot and all because someo...

I want to feel fearless. Moving easy with the wind. Fine with any direction I go. I want to be an adventurous ...

The night comes quick with darkness that I am not ready to face. So I wake up with the sun, to spend as much ...

Their season may appear to have more pleasurable weather than yours. Sunshine looks ever present, while you have lingering clouds. But just know we all weather differently. We never know what it truly feels like until we experience their weather ourselves.

I will no longer call myself a mess. Yes, I have papers scattered. There is a coffee mug tower in the sink. The mail looks like I have been out of town for weeks. But this is the first time I am happy, even if my house may not look like it. Just because my house is put together does not mean I feel put together inside this body I call home.

Going where it is comfortable and accepting what is happening? No. Going with the flow is no longer acceptable.

Today could be the day you look back at in five, ten, twenty years and say, “The decision I made that day is what got me here today.”

I don’t know what is to come past the horizon I am on today. But I am moving forward on these trails with hope that things will go the right way.

They might not understand the path you chose, but remind them that those steps are yours to take. The ones with setbacks and growth. They are yours to make.

My mind makes me feel like loneliness only lives in me. That everyone else is free. But in reality, we are all a little alone. We just feel like we are the only ones that have loneliness invade our homes.

You still have time to do what you dream up for your life. It is never too late to chase your dreams like catching butterflies.