My Choice To Be

I am grateful for the day that I have been gifted with.
I will work on not punishing people for how others have treated me.
I will continue to be kind even though life is being unkind to me.
I will continue to be giving even though so much has been taken away.
Most of all I will remind myself every second of the day... I am not what happens to me.
I am what I choose to be!
I choose to be the same person I have worked so hard to become.
I worked very hard to be the type of person I am today, it wasn't a learned behavior taught by example it was a very determined conscientious decision to be kinder, more giving, forgiving and compassionate.
I promise you these are not things I have experience every day of my life but they were what I had wished for so I decided if it wasn't something that was easily given or came to me it would be something that would easily come from me.

I just need to remember NOTHING or NO ONE has the power to change who I am or who I want to be but ME.

Because when it comes down to it the only person's approval and acceptance of who you really are when no one is looking is the person who is looking back at you in the mirror.

We can not control how unkind the world is to us but we can control how unkind we are.

Today I am grateful that no matter what happens in my life I still have the choice to be the kind of person I want to be. I may struggle for a moment but nothing will ever take that away from me not even Hurricane Harvey!