...with a smile on your face and show the world all the love in your heart ♥

A dear friend once told me she built a temple to herself as a means of self-exploration for a school project.

I am going to build a temple for myself every day. I am going to seek myself in whatever I do. Even when doing things I don't want to do, or don't like to do. I am going to seek out my best traits in the way I do these things and try to build them into more positive experiences.

I am going back to Party City for a few months. I hate that place, but I am going to dedicate myself to doing good work there. They respect me and my abilities, otherwise they wouldn't want me back. I am going to work hard and well there so that when I leave after three months, it will be on a good, high note. I am going to sweat, I am going to be sore, I am going to want to cry. But when I leave there each day, I am going to leave knowing I laid down my best.

And I am going to endeavor to do this in whatever I do, so that everything I touch can become a temple to the good things that are me, instead of the bad.

If you build bad things, poorly constructed things, and then try to live in and around them, you will feel badly. I want to feel good. I want to be strong and tenacious and enduring. I want to be a presence. And so my actions must also be all of these things.

This is my new resolution. I'm going to stop dreading things. I'm going to stop complaining about constantly having to move backwards. I'm going to strive to be the person I want to be. I want to keep reaching for that.