(excerpted from something written recently to a friend)

I try to love everyone - to accept them exactly as they are, as much as I know them in each moment. I strive to speak and act in accordance with my highest self - the choose from a place of fullest love for myself. I seek to love myself, first and foremost, and to make all my choices in accordance with that love: every choice conscious, every choice honoring who I am, every action a celebration of this life.

I strive for all those positive things - note the use of the word "strive". "Strive: to exert much effort or energy; endeavor." If it was easy, I woulda done it all, already. :) That's the challenge about choice - you have to keep making those choices all the time. Every moment, choosing the positive.

And yet, that's also the incredible beauty of choice. All those choices I made in the past, all those times when I said I couldn't, all those times I dwelt on the negative, all those times that I didn't love myself, all those choices... they don't matter right now. I get another chance, RIGHT NOW, to choose love over fear.

Any answer is okay. I get another chance to choose in just a second.

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Thanks for all your love and support over the last few weeks. Graduation is less than a week away. :)