Bear with me, as this rant unloads. Early morning thoughts were put in writing.

I believe that taking ownership of my life has been a major game changer. It has significantly impacted the current direction and decisions I have been making. I am not a passenger in this ride called life. I am the captain of this ship called ME. Life isn’t just happening to me. It’s happening for me.
I only concentrate and focus on the things that I can control, and that is myself. I can’t lie. The messy stuff and drama sometimes still gets to me. Sometimes, folks bring me into their messes. For the most part, I ignore it. This has improved both my mental health and stress levels enormously.
I have also learned to try to keep a balance in my life as well. Everything in life needs balance to it. Can’t swing the pendulum too far to the left or too far to the right. There is a need for equilibrium in all things. As humans, we tend by nature to do that.

Another thing we do, as humans, is categorizing everything. If it doesn’t fit into our neat little boxes, we spit out an error message of “we can’t compute”. A lot of people these days walk around with CPUs aka “brains” fried. It’s amazing how we as humans work. I also realize that some of us are spiritual beings having a human experience. Some of us are human beings with a spirit. A small group of us are just humans. That’s a whole ‘nother conversation for another time or day.

Lastly, I realize we all have free will in life, and so I can’t control anything or anyone. I can influence, intimidate or motivate, but actually make someone do something is a no. That includes kids as well. There are some gangsta kids out here. They are willing to take the smoke for what it is they’re about to do. And then there are the ones who play it safe all the time, like I did mostly. Didn’t get me anywhere different, so what the what.

That’s all for my morning rants and random thoughts. 🤷🏾‍♀️

What are your random thoughts?