There is light at the end of the tunnel

Have you ever found yourself going through life and it just feels completely hopeless? Like everything is falling apart. Everything you touch and every direction you take is the wrong direction? Everything you try, you feel like you’re hitting a brick wall. Every now and again life tricks you and gives you a hint of hope, just a glimmer, and you think this is it! Things are going to change! Things are shifting, only to be knocked right back down, and you feel tricked, almost like you’re being made fun of for believing in something changing and life getting better! Have you ever been there? I feel like I have been for over a year now!

Loss of a job, loss of relationships, loss of life as you knew it, loss of stability, loss of what your life was supposed to look like. It’s so easy to feel defeated and like life has dumped on you, over and over and over again. You may have a few years of good and then comes that season that is not so much fun rearing it’s ugly head! It’s so easy in these times to let life totally defeat you, to feel like this is my life, it’s never going to be any better. I’m never going to have that baby, I’m never going to have that dream job, I’m never going to have that relationship I crave with my best friend, I’m never going to feel love like I crave, I’m never….never…never! We get so consumed with never. We settle, we begin to think we don’t deserve all those wonderful things and for some reason, this is all we believe we deserve. When we let our mind go there and feel like this is all we deserve, we start to settle and almost admit defeat. In those moments we make bad decisions that could literally alter the course of our lives forever.

We have to change our thinking because we do have hope. There really is light at the end of the tunnel if we just simply choose to believe to see it. Even if we don’t see it right now, make believe we see it until we actually do see it. It’s there, I promise you. How bad do we want it though? How bad do we want that amazing job? How bad do we want to find our best friend who becomes our soul mate? How bad do we want that family? How bad do we want peace and stability? If we don’t want it bad enough, we will never ever have it. Trust me, I understand how easy it is to fall into that trap of depression and that trap of defeat and to feel like there are days this life would just be better without me in it. I have been there trust me! I have had many days where life didn’t feel like it was worth living any longer, but life is worth living and I know there are so many people who would be hurt without me in their life. There are so many people who would hurt if you weren’t in their life.

So listen to me today! I promise you, I promise me, that there is a light at the end of the tunnel and it could be closer than we even know! Strive to see it! Strive to find it. Strive to go discover what life is calling you for and how far you can go! Life is a gift! We were given a gift! So what shall we do with that gift? You can have anything you want! I can have anything I want! We just have to believe that, have hope, and go get it!

With love for you all,

Shauna