Getting Starts With Giving

Love and peace is far more than a forgotten mantra from a generation now lost in the mists of time.

We spend our life seeking one and craving the other in a bid to make our existence as comfortable and content as it can be.

In the meantime we scramble to maintain and retain whatever it is that we have learned about both.

Some of us learn faster than others. Some, however, are destined to endure a lifetime of struggle wanting and needing but rarely finding.

But the need for love and peace is always at our core and often out of reach or beyond our emotional capability.

The point all too often missed is that, to find love and peace, we must first look inside ourselves.

It’s the generation of both those two emotions that creates a state for both to be attracted. We give and, as a result, we get.

It starts with the individual and the effort the individual is prepared to make. If we wait for the world to come to our door we are setting ourselves up for disappointment.

Self-examination and self-criticism are two different things. It is possible to acknowledge our failings or shortcomings without turning that recognition and realisation into a self-directed attack.

Change is always possible. Love and peace are there to be found but it must start at a personal level.

We can live a life in emotional torment and the pain that comes with it or we can choose to take the action necessary to improve our situation.

The only person we can change is the person we are. Accepting that fact can either be a starting point or a stumbling block.