Moment of Clarity

I love extreme weather. At the moment its POURING down and its so dark, yet its only 6.30pm.
It took me almost an hour to get home tonight (a journey that would take me around 15 mins on a good day!) but this was alright, I had nowhere to rush to, I had a good CD on in the car, and I ended up going a bit of a different route home to avoid the worst of the motorway traffic, so had some new scenery to look at.
Extreme weather seems to shrink all your problems down, seems to put things into perspective. Well, it does for me anyway. And of course, on this evening, my mind experienced a sudden moment of clarity that I found very uplifting. I pulled out my notebook I have been carrying around, rustled for a pen and managed to write the following down while waiting at the various red lights and streams of stationary traffic:

When you hear of successful people, they don't talk about how many people they've dated, or slept with, what latest phone they had or how many parties they went to. You hear about their travel, their stories of overcoming the odds, of them following their dreams and their hearts. These are the days we are living RIGHT NOW. What we do now determines who we are in the future, how successful we will be, and how much respect we will have from those around us who actually matter.
So LIVE these moments for YOU. Create your stories, overcome the odds set against you, follow your dreams,  and follow your heart. BECOME the person you WANT to be. Someone others will look up to and admire. Love and all the rest will fall into place when the time is right. The only thing you have control over right now is your happiness and the ability to make choices out of the situations life presents you with. Invest in these with integrity, honesty, and passion, and in doing so, ensure yourself a bright, successful, happy future.

You are who you chose to be.

:)

Best ride home in heavy rain and heavy traffic everrrrr.