The Light at the End of the Tunnel

"If you're lost and alone
Or you're sinking like a stone
Carry On
May your past be the sound
Of your feel upon the ground and
Carry On"
Nate Ruess, Andrew Dost, Jack Antonoff, Jeff Bhasker

Yup, it happens.  We get in a situation that feels hopeless and we feel helpless.  That is when we need to just hang on to what we know is real.  It's real that we are here.  It's real that we are breathing and our hearts are beating.  If that's all we've got in the moment, we just need to know that things will get better.

Sometimes it can feel like we are in the ocean without a life preserver.  I get that.  The secret is that you already have a life preserver.  You might have forgotten about it because you have had it so long that you don't think about it anymore.

Also, we don't always understand what our life preserver looks like until we acknowledge that it's there.  Then, it becomes visible and viable.  If you think I'm talking in code, let me rephrase.  "You've always had the power, my dear" said Glinda the Good Witch. "You've had it all along."  Our hope can come from a person, place or thing.  It can come from an animal, vegetable, mineral.  It can be a song, a poem, a book or a movie.  There is always inspiration in our world.  Our first step is awareness.

We can find hope when we are hopeless and find help when we are helpless.  We just have to realize we can do it.  It's always better to reach out sooner rather than later, too.  Our best is enough.  We are enough.  "Carry on."

Have a great day!

xo
Conni