When I’m feeling overwhelmed, it paralyzes me.

My first inclination is to:

check out,

crawl under the covers,

withdraw.

But my gut tells me:

“You’re on fire!”

“This world is your toy!”

“You are amazing!”

My gut is a huge fan, and knows I’m a sucker for flattery.

So I gather my battle dress:

Badass sunglasses,

Red Chanel lipstick,

“I’ve Got The Power” by Snap, on my iPod.

Then I take my kick-ass self out for a power walk:

Head held high,

Long purposeful strides,

Deep breaths and ATTITUDE.

In the park or

Along the ocean or

Through the city's streets.

Step aside.

That’s how this girl conquers the blues.

"A part of this show... I wanted to express myself more than my past tour... than my past shows that I've been doing. I've spent so much of my time talking about my past that I didn't... I wasn't... letting anyone know who I was in that... in this moment today. And a part of growing is you have to... you can't stay in the past. You have to keep moving, you have to keep growing."

Believe me there was more. I just took one of the best parts ;)

Use the cards

Given by the earth

To get through

Your day

Because once you count

The hand

You'll always be the one left

Look up

For you've been dealt

A chance

Something worth staying for

This game of who is left

And who's right

You can't hold them all

Don't walk away

From all that you created

For the only thing left

Will be an empty spot

For someone else to play

Don't worry, don't fret

You've played all day

Don't stop now

Earn the right to say you live

Not by the folds

Cluttering your forehead

By the sweat upon your brow

And the cards left behind

Look up, now. At a window. See the trees?

See the way the light hits the leaves? How they're transparent? How you can see everything, inside and outside... And how beautiful they are, still? You can see all the green veins and the cells and the atoms and the branches and everything that makes up that leaf. You know everything about it, and it's still beautiful. Not DESPITE it's flaws... Because of them. With them.

Look down, now. At the skin of your hands. Closer. The triangles that make them up. The polygons and parallels. What do you think the formula would be for your whole body? Well, someone had to come up with it. You're here. With those millions of little formulas etched onto your skin. They might be too difficult to solve now but give it time and the propositional calculus that is your right pinky will become a word problem-- that leaf is beautiful, and you can see all of it. Look at all of you. Yep, still beautiful. You and the beauty of simple nature have a lot in common.

Look forward now. Focus on these words. See the way the letters curve? And the way the sentences flow and stop, and flow... And stop? I wrote these for you. And you only. Because, friend, you deserve to have your eyes opened to what has been evading you for a while.

Look out again. The grass and the concrete or the bricks or the weeds or the sky... Isn't it beautiful?

Think of the person you love most. Aren't they beautiful? Aren't people beautiful?

Nature is beautiful. The world is beautiful. People are beautiful.

Back to the formulas. Do they make sense now?

People are beautiful.

You're a person.

Therefore?

People are beautiful. And you're one of them.

Hope that rambling did a little somethin' for you. Hope each of your days is better than the last. <3

Life is what you make it.. How you take it..form and shape it...choices and decisions...decisions and choices...have to know the difference between the horse and the cart...one carries the weight and one carries it off...one can get in ya way and one don't know that he lost...that's why life could never be anything but magnifico...it keeps us on out toes...we get knocked down and stand taller...we live life until the land call us...into dust we shall return...1

The glowing orange rays of sun stream into your room, so bright that it isolates the outside from you.

Nothing bothers you.

Nothing disturbs you.

You are one.The only one.

A glistening pool of light.

A heartbeat.

Breathing is an effortless way to live, sometimes breathing is all you have to give, drink water to soothe and heal, drink water to once again feel.

Don't think about the bill, don't think about the problem, don't think to kill, don't think to fight them.

Think only to breathe and drink some water, look to the future and you shouldn't saunter. Breathing is an effortless way to live, breathing is sometimes all you have to give.

breathe