Live Your Personal Truth

I’ve found myself recently not living in my personal truth and as a result it threw me for a huge loop. It may hurt now and I have been emotionally bruised, but it has made me put a mirror in front of myself to see what needs to be healed. I realize that if I’m not being completely honest with myself, it’s hard to be truthful with those around me. When you aren’t living in your personal truth often you not only hurt yourself but others that you deeply care about. Though you can apologize profusely, sometimes the damage has already been done and it’s hard to recover, if at all. Being upfront and honest is much better than having to apologize for the omission of information or living in fear that someone won’t accept you for who you are. In our relationships, especially close or intimate ones, you should trust that you will be accepted for every part of you…the good, the bad, the ugly. Fear often is the culprit of many of us not living our personal truths, which may be a very valid reason but doesn’t excuse us from being fully honest with ourselves and others. However, we have to look beyond our fears and trust that God will not give us more than we can handle. I now understand that God sometimes has to knock you down on your face so that you have to seek Him to find the truth and understanding in your situation.

Please don’t get me wrong, I understand that some of our truths are not ones that we want to scream from the roof tops. A lot of us have been through some pretty personal and hard challenges in life, but we are faced with them to make us stronger and to teach us very valuable lessons. I’ve learned here recently that an important part of living your personal truth is having a friend(s) that you can fully share with, that no matter what he/she will help you navigate through hard times. There is nothing worse than dealing with major challenges in life or being presented with a new personal truth that you simply have to bottle up or keep to yourself. We all at some point in life have to be supported through something. The strongest people have the best support systems because they know that their strength sometimes comes from being reliant on someone else to carry them through difficult situations.

So to anyone that I’ve hurt while not living in my personal truth, I truly and sincerely apologize for any pain that I’ve caused. Realize that I’m not perfect and don’t expect anyone else to be perfect. As we all strive to live in our own personal truths, we will falter because we’re human. It’s important to realize at the heart of most people, they do have good intentions and though their actions may cause pain they were not intended to do so. Forgiveness of self and others goes a long way in living our personal truth. Ladies and gentlemen live in your personal truth; you owe it to yourself and the people you care about the most.