Life's Little Pages by Dawn Braun

Inspirational Writing by Dawn Braun

The Best Is Yet To Come

August18

When you look ahead into your future, always remember that the best is yet to come.  With every day that passes, a new day is upon you.  Look forward to all of the possibilities that lie ahead and embrace the opportunities that await you.  In each waking moment, you are approaching your destiny. If you truly want something, you have everything it takes to go after it and get it.   No one else has the ability to make your destiny except for you. Find the willpower inside of yourself to be motivated, determined, guided, and inspired to move on forward.  Set forth with ambition, progress onward with anticipation, and advance forward with confidence and hope.  In the end, the result that lies ahead of you is far more rewarding than anything that lies behind you.  Discover it, seek it, and seize it;  the best is yet to come.

Treasure the Moments

July30

Life is short. Live every day to the fullist. Always cherish the times you have together and hold the people you love the most close to your heart forever. These are the days that can’t be taken away from you. Look forward to the future but live for today. Here and now, make the best of every moment and never have any regrets.

Laugh, cry, play, dance, sing, and have fun! Be silly, childish, and spontaneous! Love your friends like they are your family and never let them go.  These are the days you will look back on. Make them count the most!

Treasure all the little joys in life. Time flies by so fast, hold onto every moment. Cherish the happy times and smile until your face hurts. Believe in miracles and let those miracles believe in you. Be Amazed. Give butterfly kisses. Shed happy tears at every little thing that warms your heart. Feel deeply and love unconditionally.  Be thankful for the little things in life. 

Fall inlove and share your heart. Watch sunsets together and stand in the rain. Share your hopes and live your dreams. Discover the power of love. Stand side by side, always and forever. Grow old together and love all the days of your life.  Always treasure these moments…these are the greatest moments in life.

Remember

June17

Remember when you were a child and life was so simple and sweet.  The world seemed so innocent, peaceful, and carefree.  There were no problems, no stress, and nothing to worry about.  Every day was like a holiday; a playful game of make believe where you could tell the story as you go.   Pretending you were a princess, king, monster, or some other character that you created in your wild imagination.  As you depended on your parents for everything, your life was guided by the decisions they made for you.  Simply awaking each morning to sunshine; you played, ate, and slept when you were told.  You were on top of the world, exploring and discovering, skipping along vivaciously into tomorrow.  When you look back, always remember this.

Remember when you were a teenager and life became a little awkward, complicated and rebellious.  As you were forced to leave adolescence, the transition into teen hood seemed more difficult and quite a bit unfair at times.  The struggle to make friends, to fit in, and to be accepted was crucial and one of the most important lessons and tests of the time.  Life was an adventure, manifested in the discovery of getting older.  The excitement of being a teenager presented you with many new obstacles –  both good and bad.  Influenced and pressured by your peers in almost all areas of life, it was your first true realization that you have walked out of the door of childhood and through a door that was preparing you for so much more.    As you devoted much of your teenage years obsessing over popularity and acceptance, many of the adolecent moments you shared with friends were some of the greatest days of your life.  When you look back, always remember this.

Remember when you were in your 20’s and life felt a little more thrilling and spontaneous.  You lived independently making choices and decisions that would potentially impact your life forever.  You were no longer a child or a teenager, but a mature and self-reliant adult.  Evolving into adulthood, you experienced many changes.   Friends, who used to be your friends, were no longer your friends anymore.  The strongest bonds of friendship existed in those who stuck by you through the most difficult times of all.  The power of your hearts truest and deepest emotions of love, hurt, denial, and pain revealed it’s amazing ability to heal.  Experiencing jealousy, betrayal, and lies you learned how to pick up the pieces and move on forward.    Life was good.   Finally, you were in the driver seat.  You could do whatever you wanted to do whenever you choosed to do it.  There was no one to tell you how to live your life.  The choice was up to you and you alone.   Risky behavior, fun and games, nightlife, drinking, experimenting, partying, were all those exciting pleasures that brought about many consequences.  Good times with great friends and memories that live on forever. Some would say, those were the days.  When you look back, always remember this.

Remember your 30’s when life seemed more balanced, realized, and yet the greatest awakening of all.  Life unfolded right before your eyes.  Your future is handed to you on a silver platter.  You see everything more clearly now, so clear that it is almost frightening.  A new adventure is uncovered, as you begin to prepare yourself for what is yet to come in the years ahead.  Everyone around you is getting married, getting divorced, having babies, buying houses, and getting older by the day.  It feels like life was suddenly put on fast forward and you can’t seem to slow it down.  It’s so exciting, thrilling, scary, and surreal all at the same time.   Your life undergoes many changes, some for the good and some for the bad.  Working hard every day to achieve success, money, and a prosperous future.  Holding on and reaching out for love, friendship, and family while cherishing them more than ever.   Eventually all the tiny pieces fit perfectly together into the big and complicated puzzle.  Sooner or later, everything falls into place.  No matter how long it takes, the reward is always worth the wait and the wait is always rewarding.  In your 30’s, time is of the essence, but many would reflect back and say they are the best years of your life.  Always reflect back on the memories and the days that are in the past and forever hold them close to your heart.   As you move forward in hope and premonition, look ahead with confidence and anticipation but don’t forget to stop, look back – and always remember.

Journey

June8

As a child, I would gaze out of my window into the dark and peaceful night time sky.  I remember wishing upon a star and dreaming about what my future would be like.  I would picture my husband and imagine him being some where out there, at that very moment, living his life day by day.  I didn’t know who he was, where he lived, or when we would meet each other but I believed that he existed in this gigantic world of people.  In my dreams, I knew that one day our paths would lead to one another and we would travel the rest of our lifetime journey together, side by side. 

It’s actually amazing to think back to when you were a child and to reflect on the moments when you pictured your future.  There I was, a young and dreamy child, picturing the course of my life and where it would take me in ten, fifteen, even twenty years.   Back then, it felt like it was so far away, unreachable, unattainable; almost like it would never happen.  No matter how long it takes for you to get to that moment, it is those exhilarating visions and aspirations that enable you to believe and to achieve.  All those endless wishes upon a star, are not just wishes, but the extraordinary magic that drives you to explore the world and all of its greatest possibilities and opportunities.  It is the power of the mind to begin telling the fairytale and unfold the pages of life one day at a time.  To give a sense of hope and meaning, something to believe in, and something to live for.  As we explore, search, and desparately seek for our future, we discover the journey.  The journey that life has taken us to find ourselves.  To find who we are and where we were always meant to be.   The journey into our destiny.  Like a fairytale, the chapters of life unfold its infinite pages.  The journey takes its course.  The timelss and endless  journey into our future.