A great post from Bryan
I receieved this yesterday from Bryan…he is always putting his two cents in at the most best times…it’s nice to know how your friends feel about you and the circumstances you find yourself in on a daily basis. I hope you all get a little something out of this for yourselves. Hugs & Kisses, Anna
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Sometimes as life pushes us one way and pulls us another, we lose sight of the most important things in it.
People disappoint us so often because we hold such high expectations and we have this picture in our heads of exactly what we want the world to be like and it just never lives up to that picture… that’s not entirely our own fault… but it partially is.
Sometimes that fairy tale ending is available to us and there for the taking but we have to be willing to accept that it’s not exactly what we expected.
In the long run, it can exceed those expectations…
even if at first it seems not to even meet them.
If there’s one thing I have learned in my life it’s that one cannot know anything about anyone else quickly.
It takes time.
It’s one of life’s great dichotomies that there is such an uphill battle to overcome a bad first impression and yet the true person is not revealed until one has spent some time with them and seen what they are truly about.
We all put up an image of sorts… we all have this way we wish to be perceived… and often it’s not exactly as who we really are. Often we really don’t even know the truth about ourselves.
At the end of the day, there are certain things that matter and nothing else does. First and foremost, in my opinion, at least, is loyalty. One needs have nothing to do with me if they are the type to betray my trust. Beyond that is love. If someone is unable to give this freely and unconditionally, they are not mate material.
We parents have an upper hand in this department as we experience unconditional love on a regular basis.
Most non-parents really have no idea what it’s like.
Hold your head up high, smile, face the day with the knowledge that no matter what, you’re an incredible, warm, loving, intelligent, very special woman with an enormous amount of potential to do great things. No one can take that away from you and you have a right to have expectations because not anyone deserves the amount of love you have to give…
just remember that those expectations must be held for the right reasons and in the right manner… for what you expect in a mate should be that which will make you happy and last a lifetime. Too often we all (myself included) look for what we THINK we want but it’s just superficial compared to what we truly need. There’s no need to settle for “so-so” but remember that the things that make them “so-so” should be the important things… just like the things that make them “incredible” should be those same things.
So long as you remain true to that, you’re guaranteed to either FIND happiness WITH someone else or on your own.
Miss ya!
Bryan





