Hear Ye! Hear Ye!

Words are very powerful. You are very influential. The words that you speak do effect people. 

I say this because today I picked up an old habit of letting former negative thoughts creep back into my mind. 

It was nothing I ever felt or considered until someone very close to me made a comment. That was the comment that "caught fire," so to speak. (I just finished reading Catching Fire and I'm ready to tackle the final book in the Hunger Games trilogy!)

I let someone else's judgement and casual statement get into the back of my mind where my overanalyzing self got a hold of it and hasn't let it go. It has just been stirring and spreading and growing into something that was never mine to begin with. I recently told myself that I would not think about that anymore, and tonight it found its way back in. So I ask, why is it that negative comments and opinions will stick with us so easily and often times we have such a hard time accepting compliments and encouragement? That has to change. No one has the authority to make you anything unless you give it to them. You don't have to be what others say you are. Just make it up in your mind. You don't have to be ugly. Dumb. Crazzy. Worthless. Or anything else anyone has said to you. You only become those things when you accept it. It may be a daily or hourly or minute-to-minute battle, but as long as you stand firm in believing what you say about yourself all the other BS doesn't matter.

I will also say that we all must be careful about what we say to others. When you are close to someone, your opinion and what you say MATTERS. You may not realize how you can impact another person and that this person truly values what you say, can be hurt by what you say, and can be just as easily uplifted by what you say. Even the slightest, most seemingly-insignificant words can leave a lasting impression.

I will not struggle with that comment and that issue again. I AM what I say I AM. No matter what anyone else thinks. I dare you to believe what you say about yourself, not what someone else has said.

To The Better Days:

Proverbs 18: 21                                                                                                  w/ So Much ♥ Britt T

    * 21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit.