Peace vs. Calm.

"our name is our virtue"

I have been pondering on that quote for a while. Names, check yours out because it probably has a meaning. My name means peace. I have kind of known that for a while because my name is Olivia like "olive branch" which is a sign of peace. So I started thinking about peace, and at first thought you probably couldnt think of a word that less describes me. I am high-energy all the time, and while I do desire world peace, I am not what one would think of as peaceful to be around. However thinking on what the word peace means to me, I find it has nothing to do with a persons energy level, and everything to do with how you feel about yourself. You have to feel at home with yourself, you have to be at peace with yourself, you have to love yourself. So with my new found virtue I walk onward, seeking inner peace with myself, then allowing it to radiate into other people. We all deserve to love ourselves, everying no matter what, you will never spend more time with someone than you spend with yourself. So become at peace with yourself, your faults, your strengths your ever changing self. Accept everything you feel, are and want to be. I am a firm believer that you cannot love anyone until you love yourself. So excercise your self love by stopping negative self talk. Your amazing, I'm amazing and until we all realize this fact about every human being an that planet including ourselves, peace is not possible. I wish you peace and love.

We were made to feel the rain.

We were made to feel the rain
We were made to drink the sea
We were made to live together
In peace and harmony

We weren't made to put factories up
And put smoke in the sky
We were made to feel the earth
With fresh air drifting by

We were made to dance and made to sing
But in the grand design
There certainly were no phones to ring
Or ways to catch the "time"

We were made to feel the dirt
To gaze up at the stars
To one day realize
That all the world is ours

And though we buy and sell it
It still would seem to me
Quite uncomprehensible
How one could "own" a tree

We were made to share this gift
The earth that where we all live
So why would we want to recieve
More that we want to give

We were made to love
To put it simpily
To know the universe is intertwined
To taste infinity

life is good.

How many times have your heard this sentence: life is good. Its on t-shirts, coffee mugs, bumper stickers, facebook statuses, hats and several other assorted items. So we surround ourselves with this wonderous idea and then we don't act like it. Instead of using this as a healthy reminder and do not actually live it out. Life is good. Such as short sentence, but one of the absolute truest. I can't stress enough how good it feels to absolutely believe it. Now I'm not saying I walk and never forget how beautiful life is, but goodness I would like to. I get tastes of it though. When I really think how wonderful everything is. How we can CHOOSE this outlook, just like you can choose to be in a bad mood. It's that easy, choose to be happy. Even if time rough, you can still CHOOSE to look at them happily. Do what makes you happy. Have faith in yourself and your intuition, and be accepting of yourself and the fact that experience molds you and that you will never be the exact same person you were yesterday. Rejoice in your everchanging self! Every second is a fresh start, so never feel like your failing, because you have never done anything as the exact person you are at that second. Its better to just enjoy the ride. Because it is a good ride, not like one of those that makes you feel sick, its one of those rides you would wait in life forever for, and here is the catch, there is no line, your already on the awesome ride that is life, existence, connecting to everything and hopefully finding love in everything. Our fellow travelers in humanity whom we should love with all our hearts. Take it all in. Look around, open your eyes and heart and realize we are only made to love. EVERYTHING AND EVERYBODY. Think of the universe as on your side and that its all going to be okay, because it is. Things that seem like the world, will eventually become a funny memory. Look around and radiate the light you have.

an attitude of gratitude

I am so overwhelmingly blessed. I have gratitude flowing from my being right now and I need to get it down on paper, or in this case on screen. I am truely blessed with everything that has happened in my life. I am crazy grateful for my life, my family, my friends, my enemys and everyone and everything that has ever influenced me in the smallest of ways. "they shaped my life, they make me love who I am today".