Living in the real world is not easy. And yet it is the real world that surrounds us and demands our presence.
The real world is not something of our own creation. It is the way it is, not the way we would imagine it to be.
The real world is something beyond our control. The best we can hope for is to play a part. We can choose our level of involvement or the degree with which we decide to disassociate ourselves. We can be present or we can be absent. We can be victors or we can be victims.
Ultimate happiness or sadness is not determined by the world we inhabit but by the world that exists in our hearts and our heads. It’s not about what happens to us but by what happens through us.
Too many of us struggle with people and situations we are unable to change only to find that what we get has little resemblance to what we want and looks nothing like what we had expected.
What we do with what we get, how we value-add to what we have, how we choose to react – these are the things that define us.
Fulfilment is about who we are more than what we have. People inspire. Possessions incite. We choose the path we will follow.
Gary Bentley Counselling 