Thoughts for a New Day.

I have lived an experience today that I thought it was completely behind me. I was in dare need to do something to bring me back to my own self, so I went for a long, a lonely and well deserved walk with the full moon as company, illuminating my way to and back from the beach. The clear sky, mercury still close to the moon and easily seen from down here, the calm waves shining under the moon light like tiny diamonds and the sweet ocean breeze surrounding and embracing me with its fragrance.

All that harmony created in me the desire to be part of it and enticed me to a night swim, I left my clothes on the sand and walked into the water…it felt like the sea knew where I hurt and welcomed me, hugging me with its warm water making me one with it.

Now, sitting here, awake at 11:00, with no sign that I will sleep any time soon, listening to Billie Holiday singing in the background….I had to go to my books and find the peace and balance in my soul that this event has disturbed, to help me get through tonight and see a new tomorrow.

This is the last day of summer, my favorite time of the year, and I promise to myself that this is also the last day that this issue will ever bother me again.

These are few of the thoughts I read on one of my books and they just spoke to me as I needed them.

‘You have done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.”

“The meeting of two souls is like the contact of two substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”

“These are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”

“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”

“The stupidest mistake in life is thinking the one who hurt you the most, won’t hurt you again.

Now it is the time I have been waiting for. Time to laugh, to rise, to be happy and free again.

N. Cardoso 2010