Stand Up and Own Yourself

Today is National Down Syndrome Day. Which couldn't come at a better time given this particular piece of news. Based on this information, I've spent a little time reflecting on how we as people draw from our experiences, and how we take life's little curve balls. I've also reflected on how we own our lives, both the parts we can control and the parts that we can't. And that is going to be the subject of this blog.

All of the changes that occur are part of what make my life what it is. There are some changes that I love, more than my life itself at times. There are some changes that take place that make my life much more stressful and much more difficult too, and those things are all things that make up parts of my life too. I couldn't have some of the things I love if I didn't have the things that I don't. Regardless of how I feel about a given change in my life, a given aspect of my life, or a moment of my life, it is still mine. I still have to take responsibility for it, whether it is something i brought upon myself, or had thrust on me by fate.

Seeing a family sue over the birth of their child fills me with a lot of emotions. While I try to keep personal opinions relatively free of judgement of any kind, I do still believe that everybody gets to make their own choices in life. Even if at times they are the wrong choices, they are still the choices that they made. My only hope regarding these choices is that the people who make them can stand up to them and own them.

I'm not sure I'm making a lot of sense because of my sleep deprived state, but I want to stop my tirade for a moment and make sure that I get my overall point across. Life is going to be what it is going to be. And your life is going to be yours, nobody else's. You may not always like the life you have, and you may not always want your life to turn out the way it does, but at the end of the day, your life is yours. You have to own it. And standing up for your life, and allowing yourselves to be brought to account for your actions is the only way to make sure you are living and not just going through the motions.

KONY 2012

I very rarely come on here and take up a lot of anyone's time. Unfortunately, there are some things that come up that must be shared. That we as a people, as a human race, need to know that can't be read in just a few minutes. This is one of those things. Please take the time to watch this video if you haven't. We need to stop this now and make sure the world is rid of this type of thing forever.

"Individually we are a single drop. Together we are an ocean." Let's go out together and make this a thing of the past.