I Choose Peace: A Journey Within

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So many times in the past couple of weeks I’ve caught the shade you throw my way and I wanted to retaliate, but instead of confronting the situation or you, I chose peace.

I know what I can do, I know what I will do. So I choose passive resistance.

You don’t get to tell me that I can’t interact with your child or husband. They get to tell me that. I will be fine when they set their boundaries.

Until then you don’t get to tell me anything.

Because I can, or will make your existence negative. Until you beg me for, or earn my forgiveness.

How I handle situations as they arise may not be the ideal way, but it works for me.

Life is a lesson and I’m still learning mine, my way.

I choose distance over conflict these days, that’s MY peace!

I choose ME!

I know where I’ve been, how I used to respond, and where I’m trying to go now.

Being vulgar and a non-conformist was all fun and games and all I knew, until that’s all people expect from me.

Well, maybe not everyone, because I know some who have been disappointed by my actions. For what it is worth I am over that.

I choose to let everyone think they can intimidate me and they have won, when I’m really the champion of my own life.

I choose peace.

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A mentor once told me that if you change nothing, nothing will change for you.

The introspective process of choosing peace is the embrace of self, and acceptance that through all the intricate ins and outs, I have a say in choosing peace.

The steps I have taken and with each decision, became a pathfinder. I discovered a lot.

The person who I was.

The person that I am.

And the person I did not turn out to be, got entangled. An assemblage and also a whole.

An instrument of PEACE.

I now embrace the choices abandoned and those made.

So in my own quieter moments of pondering I delve into the sources of resilience, and find that tranquility is not merely peace in spite of chaos but an artful way of dealing with disorder.

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