The Tapestry

Good evening, my word loving peoples.

It is the last day of the month, and I was determined to post something before the month was up. I try to keep up with my blog monthly, and I know I fail some times, but I plan to fight back my depression-induced laziness and get a post written out before midnight.

We all know life is hard. I’m sure if you’re reading this you’re going through your own problems both big and small. These problems are like threads. Each thread is a different color.

I think each color adds to your innermost being—your own tapestry.

Each problem forces you to react. It’s up to you if you react badly and draw dark threads from the event. If you make it a habit to pull dark threads, the tapestry of your life will be dark. However, if you draw brighter threads from the problem, and learn from it, and grow stronger from it, your tapestry will be bright and welcoming.

How we decide to react to things paints our personality.

Now, when you meet someone they have a lot of threads also. Threads they got from there problems too. You talk, and you share the threads, and some may change color depending on how you take them. Perhaps you don’t get along with said person, and so the threads you share with them are dark. Or maybe you get along great, and the threads are brighter. Maybe you fall in love and the threads glow.

Our problems and what we learn from the people we meet weaves together who we are. And age won’t stop that. You continue to learn and change, and the tapestry of your life is weaved longer and more colorful every day.

Can you picture it? The long lengths of dark colors where life was hard, and then the brighter colors when things turned out better, and the mingled spots of dark and light colors in the day-to-day when life is good and bad—when you stubbed your toe or someone gave you a cookie.

This is how we people are made. It’s also how we can be so similar to someone, yet so utterly different.

You have the same colored thread.
You hold them up to compare them.
You laugh because of the coincidence.
However, the next color is much different…

What kind of tapestry do you want your life to be? Colorful and vibrant? Dark and gloomy?

Everything you go through is going to become a part of you in one way or another, and it’s up to you if you can laugh at it, cry about it, or get angry at it. You pick the color it leaves on you.

Now, I know some times things happen that will be so dreadful you’ll have to draw dark threads, and sometimes life can be so wonderful the threads are neon bright. But it will be okay as long as you keep weaving. The darkness and the light complement each other. They’re both a part of us…

This post was merely to make you think. I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the kind of person I am and who I want to be one day. Some people tell me I’m great, others have less than kind things to say about me.

You won’t be great to everyone. That’s the way it is.

Man, it has been a long day. I pretty much knocked out my to-do list and kicked butt cleaning, and then ate a large supper and plopped myself down in front of my laptop to write this post for you all to read and enjoy. Thank God I don’t have to return to work until Tuesday…

Oh hey! I can end on that note.

Happy Labor Day, everyone! I pray you all rest well and enjoy the weekend, and if you’re working I hope work goes great for you.

Draw some colorful threads this weekend, my friends!

E.L.M.

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