The world is a culmination of mirrors that reflect right back at you the stories you've already told.

It doesn't seek to change, alter, or adjust. In fact, it doesn't do anything. It's neutral. It is simply a collection of

hearts waiting to be put together. A series of characters awaiting a story. If you're hopeful,

you'll find contained within your surroundings hope. If you're hateful, you'll find hate, loving, you'll find contained within your surroundings hope.

If you're hateful, you'll find hate, loving, you'll find love, optimistic, you'll find optimism,

and skeptical you'll find doubt.

Life reflects your preconceived notions back at you. Which is technically great news, right?

I can't think of anything more empowering than the idea that we decide

what the occurrences around us ultimately meet.

And I'm not suggesting that if one closes their eyes and dreams,

life becomes free of problems or obstacles, I'm not suggesting that if one closes their eyes and dreams, life becomes free of problems

or obstacles.

I'm saying when our walls fall, we get to decide what that means, if, when, and where we build

again.

And this is evident in the fact that some don't look for value, hence the proclivity to walk

right by it.

Others teach themselves to seek it out, even in the most unlikely of places.

We'll never be able to control the weather.

But as Bob Marley famously put it, some people feel the rain, others just get wet.

In a lot of ways, we don't get to choose what the world around us looks like,

but are given the power to decide what it all becomes, which is the precursor to change to a life of freedom and abundance. The ability to interpret

is monumental. It is strength. Because there will be a time when life becomes difficult when you

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