Deconstructed

by Liz Talley

That I would not just let life happen to me but instead direct my life toward something better.

Paper people are consumed by fire, dissipating into ash before scattering into the wind, never to be whole again. But others, those made of steel, used the fire to forge an edge. The heat hardened them, creating razor determination, melding them into something stronger.

“Change your thinking and you can change the world.”

Sometimes you gotta fix what’s behind you so you can look in front of you.

Without understanding who you are and accepting all the good and bad parts of your past, you don’t know the things worth keeping, and you can’t get rid of the things that need to be tossed. You can’t remake yourself.”