IS THE DREAM STILL ALIVE OR THE INJUSTICE JUST CHANGED VENUES

ON THIS DAY DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING SPEECH SWIRLS THROUGH EVERYONE'S HEAD TODAY. HAS THE DREAM REALLY BEEN ACHIEVED?  IF YOU HAVEN'T MADE YOUR RICHES OR GOT HE OPPORTUNITIES THAT WERE GIVEN IN THE EIGHTIES TO GROW YOU MAY NOT HAVE THAT CHANCE AT THE DREAM.  IF YOU LISTEN TO THE POLITICIANS OF TODAY MONEY IS THE MAIN FACTOR OF THEIR EXISTENCE, EACH RICH OR OWNERS OF COMPANIES THAT HAVE NOW BEEN DISPOSED OF LEAVING DEVASTATION TO FAMILIES ON THEIR WAY TO THE TOP SPOTS OF THE ECONOMIC LADDER. IF PERSON WITH INFLUENCE HAS A VOICE WHY IS EVERYONE SO QUIET AS THE ELDERLY SUFFER DUE TO SO CALLED GOVT. POLICIES, DISABLED & ILL DIE FROM LACK OF HEALTH INSURANCE AND OUR CHILDREN GO HUNGRY BECAUSE THEIR PARENTS HAVE TO CHOOSE TO KEEP THEM WARM OR FEED THEM.  IS THE DREAM ALIVE?? NO IT JUST CHANGED VENUES, WE STILL HAVE RACISM IN THIS COUNTRY BUT THE MAIN ISSUE IS CLASS AND STATUS. WE STILL HERE EVERYDAY WATCHING THE RICH GETTING RICHER AND THE POOR GETTING SO MUCH POORER, WHILE PEOPLE WHO HAVE WORKED ALL THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR HOMES ARE NOW LOSING THEM WHILE THE RICH SIT IN MANSIONS LAYING OFF THE LESS PAID AND DOUBLING THEIR OWN SALARIES...WAKE UP!!!!THE DREAM IS DYING AND WE ARE STILL FIGHTING FOR OUR RIGHTS TO LIVE AS EQUALS NOT JUST THE MINORITIES ALL OF US NO MATTER WHAT YOUR SKIN COLOR IS, WE ARE NOW IN A FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL THE POOR AGAINST THE GREEDY RICH, HOW MANY OF OUR CHILDREN HAVE TO DIE IN THE STREETS OR GO TO PRISON BECAUSE THE POLITICIANS AND MEDIA TELLS THEM WITHOUT MONEY YOU ARE  A NOBODY...HOW MANY??? MONEY DIDN'T MAKE THIS COUNTRY GREAT THE PEOPLE DID, TODAY WE CELEBRATE THE ACHIEVEMENT OF A GREAT MAN WHO USED HIS VOICE TO REACH MANY NOT BY MONETARY VALUES BUT BY DEDICATION AND PASSION TO HIS DREAM.  WE ARE ALL SOMEBODY AND UNTIL WE USE ARE VOICES TO BE HEARD ALL THE WORLD WILL HEAR IS HOW FAR AMERICA HAS FALLEN OVER THE RICH REFUSING TO HELP THE POOR AND SUFFERING..DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING WOULD WEEP TODAY AND THE DESTRUCTION WE CAST AMONGST OURSELVES WITHOUT SOLIDARY AND TODAY I WEEP FOR US ALL TOO...I TOO HAVE A DREAM...WE MUST WAKE UP AND GIVE VOICE TO THE INJUSTICE OF CAPITALISM, IF WE DON'T IT COULD BE YOU SOMEDAY WITH NO ONE TO SPEAK FOR YOU, WHEN YOU ARE UNABLE TO DO IT YOURSELF, BROKE, LOST, ILL OR WORSE...DO IT NOW FOR OTHERS AND YOURSELF!!!!

BEAUTY OF THE DANDELION

HAPPINESS AND BEAUTY SURROUND US ALL ON A DAILY BASIS, EVEN THOUGH A DANDELION IS JUST A WEED, THE YELLOW PELLETS ARE BEAUTIFUL. 
IF YOU RELINQUISH ALL THE BAD FROM YESTERDAY AND KNOW THAT EVERY DAY BREAK IS A NEW AND EXCITING NEW DAY, HAPPINESS WILL RETURN TO YOU.  EACH MORNING WAKE-UP, STRETCH AND SMILE AT YOURSELF SIT FOR JUST ONE MINUTE AND THINK OF THE HAPPIEST MOMENTS IN YOUR LIFE EVERY MORNING.  SO WHEN THE DARK CLOUDS COME AND THE STRESS OF THE DAY BEGINS TO DRAG YOU DOWN, STOP FOR A MINUTE AND REMEMBER THE BEAUTIFUL MEMORY YOU HAD WHEN WAKING UP AND REMEMBER EVEN THOUGH TODAY IS GOING BAD, I'M STILL LIVING, BREATHING AND WORKING THERE ARE PEOPLE IN ALOT WORSE PREDICAMENTS THEN I AM IN. 
LIFE IS A GIFT THAT WE MUST CHERISH AND NOT TAKE FOR GRANTED, THERE HAVE BEEN SO MANY LIVES LOST AND GONE FROM US THAT NEVER HAD A CHANCE TO DO WHAT WE CAN DO TODAY.  DON'T LET STRESS, BAD MEMORIES AND THINGS THAT ARE OUT OF ARE CONTROL GET TO US EITHER DEAL AND TAKE YOUR CONTROL OR LET IT GO INTO A PAST EXPERIENCE OR LESSON LEARNED CATEGORY.  ALWAYS THINK FORWARD NEVER BACKWARDS WHAT WAS DONE YESTERDAY, IS JUST THAT YESTERDAY, DON'T LET IT EFFECT YOUR FUTURE AND ESPECIALLY NOT YOUR HAPPINESS!!!!

IT'S TIME TO LET GO

YOU'RE ONLY AS STRONG AS THE PEOPLE BEHIND OR BESIDE YOU, RATHER IT'S A WIFE, HUSBAND, MOTHER, FATHER OR TEAM RIGHT? WRONG!!!


THE STRONGEST SUPPORT SYSTEM YOU HAVE IS YOURSELF.  A LOT OF US GREW-UP WITH NO ENCOURAGEMENT OR SUPPORT SYSTEM BUT RELIED ON THE FAITH WITHIN OURSELVES TO DO ANYTHING WE SET OUT TO DO WITHOUT THE FEAR OF TRYING THE IMPOSSIBLE BECAUSE NO ONE WAS THERE TO TELL US IT WAS POSSIBLE.  YOU MUST FIND THAT SAME INNER STRENGTH THAT SAME SUPPORT SYSTEM THAT KICKS IN WHEN OUR BLOOD CELLS OUR FIGHTING OFF A VIRUS, YOU MUST FIGHT FOR THE GOALS YOU WANT TO ACHIEVE IN LIFE ON YOUR OWN.


SUPPORT, ENCOURAGEMENT AND STRENGTH ARE ALL WITHIN OURSELVES
SUPPORT YOUR OWN MOVEMENT THROUGH LIFE LIKE A ONE PERSON TEAM TAKING ON THE WORLD
ENCOURAGE YOURSELF DAILY TO ACCOMPLISH AT LEAST ONE GOAL.
STRENGTH, USE THE STRENGTH WITHIN YOU, NEVER WASTE A MINUTE NOT THINKING OF A WAY TO USE THAT SUBCONSCIOUS POWER WE ALL HAVE TO BREAKDOWN ANY OBSTACLE IN OUR PATH.


EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE THAT DOES NOT SHARE YOUR VISION IS AN OBSTACLE..IT'S TIME TO LET THEM GO AND MOVE FORWARD

STRUGGLES???

Many people are speaking of struggles, stress and money worries, but are these real struggles? Just because you don't have what you want to eat, you're hungry? or you can't buy the shoes or car you want you're broke? The word Struggle has been minimized to wants not needs. Struggles are excuses for the behavior people exhibit when they put their wants over their needs. 
I hear people complain of all the obstacles in their way but to truly beat any obstacle you must first embrace that it's there and either work with it or around it but nothing can block your path to life. Just remember my thoughts: If you wake up every morning and stand on your own two feet, reach for objects with your own two hands, look in the mirror and clearly see yourself with your own two eyes and hear birds singing with your own two ears than you already have double the chances of beating obstacles that others face on a daily basis.  What was your struggle again??? The struggle we create is within ourselves, we need to focus with our minds to unblock the subconscious obstacle that slows our process of living the life we were meant to live.  We all have struggles in one way or another its just a part of life but when it interferes with you living, you must embrace it, learn from it and grow bigger then the obstacle to step over it and get back to the higher being of oneself...

The Realization of oneself

There comes a point in every one's life that changes their outlook of themselves and the world around them.  You look back and realize you have accomplish a little and alot all at the same time.  You realize it's time to know what you want out of life, when will you really start to live the life you were meant to live. 
You will also come to the realization who really cares for you and who is just using you, it's that time to let go of the fakes and keep the lifelong loyal people in your life, not just talking about friends that includes family too. The only way to understand what you need to do is to focus on you and only have people surrounding you that care about your well-being. No one is promised tomorrow or even the next hour so let nothing or no one take your happiness away even for a second, a second of sadness or anger in an hour off your life, it's not worth it.  If you're miserable in your job, I know it's scary but change it or take a chance and do your own business every 10 years the economy crashes and rebounds, it's coming back and everyone doesn't have the gifts and talents God bestowed upon you, use them to be Happy.  You need to realize it's not your parents, your neighborhood or environment that stops you from you happiness and dreams it is YOURSELF.  Alot of us grew up in households of no encouragement or support but we found it within ourselves the gift god gave us.
Until you realize that YOU are the Key to your Happiness, Love and Success to Greatness, you will be lost in the denial of your own self worth, just being a living shadow of your true self.  The light of realization will come to everyone who truly seeks it.

REFLECTION...A MIRROR OF YOURSELF

Realizing the strength within us is more powerful than any pounds of weight you can lift or any fights that you've won.
The consciousness of our own greatness is the only inspiration needed to achieve our Goals of making the Impossible...Possible
I use my own three (3) R's, Reflect, Recount & Remember..
REFLECT: About yourself, what makes you the person that you are, do you have the drive in your heart, the determination in your mind to be the greatest you were meant to be.
RECOUNT: The situations and people in your life that pulled you up and especially the ones that pulled you down. Use the good and the bad to show love for the good and to prove the bad ones wrong.
REMEMBER: Your past it is the foundation for your future, the more failures and pain I use as motivation to be unstoppable in any goal you are reaching for. I use these as an understanding that this shaped me into the person that I am today..no one can stop me but me..the same is for you

The actions you do today will be the reaction for your future no matter what your situation is..Only you can make you who you are today, tomorrow and the future..That reflection you see in the mirror is yourself, just make sure you like what you see...

written by Darice Abdulla

NEGATIVITY....L.O.W

Negativity is a disease, a cancer that gets your soul and drains your mind of your goals. Negative people will just NEGATIVE, because that's their persona, hate, disloyalty and jealousy are all under that negative umbrella.
My Acronym for these people is L.O.W just pay attention to my words and watch for these people.
LISTEN: Always listen to negative people never feed into their hate, just listen without response, as you listen you can feel the darkness engulf them and the suffocating of the light and air. beware
OBSERVE: Their body language, their expressions no matter how beautiful a person is on the outside that negativity and hate will show on the outside, showing the pure ugliness of one's being. beware
WATCH:  The actions they show toward someone else will be the same actions against you they will bring to someone else about you.  The only thing they focus on is someone's misery like a sear sucker sucking happiness out of everything and everyone around them.
L.O.W life people are full of negativity, stay away from these people
Keep your thoughts POSITIVE, GIVING AND LOVING. Focus on your Blessings no matter how small and you will see the changes in your life just by cleaning the darkness of negativity out of your life.  Life is a being to be cherished with happiness and light each day.  The Success of your life depends on the Positive way you face each challenge to win your goal..

written by Darice Abdulla

Reality of it all

We have gotten to the point in this country that no one tells the truth and everyone wants to be something that they are not.  I used to hate being different but now I know it's a blessing to tell things as I see them and give love instead of lies to all that deserve it. 

It used to be that television was all fantasy and it was always stated to us as children don't believe anything you see on tv but now they have reality tv which is still fantasy it's no reality to it; all the actors have stylist, hair dressers, cars, house and clothes where's the reality in that?  It's sad they we have gotten to the point in our country that everything is a fantasy that everyone is trying to reach, an unattainable dream "reality" to the point where we are in debts, losing cars, houses, jobs trying to reach that fantasy the media has put into our thinking.

We need to wake up, stop living above our means, stop playing the champagne superstars on a 4 loko budget. We watch others so closely and try our best to be like others, we lose who we truly are, nothing is given to us freely like on tv and nothing is wrong with working a regular job, having a regular home, car etc..as long as you are happy and fullfilled who cares what others think of your circumstances, the ones talking are even worse off then you are that's why they are there waiting for you to fall to their level..

Rise above the dreams until it's your time to fullfill it, it may not be today or tomorrow but keep your dreams alive, live the way you need to survive and focus to obtain the obtainable in due time the fantasy world will just be that a fantasy because you will be living your own REALITY

THE TEARS IN THE RAIN

THEY SAY RAIN IS GOD'S TEARS CLEANSING THE EARTH.  I LOVE THE RAIN, IT BRINGS PEACE AND HARMONY WHILE GIVING THE EARTH A CHANCE TO GROW AND IT'S CREATURES A CHANCE TO LIVE. RAIN IS LIKE A BROKEN HEART, THE TEARS CLEANSE THE SOUL OF THE PAIN BUT IT GIVES YOU A CHANCE TO GROW INTO A STRONGER PERSON.  I'VE SHED MANY TEARS FOR MY DEAD FRIENDS AND FAMILY MEMBERS, FOR HEART BREAK OVER AND OVER AGAIN AND FOR FAILURES THAT WERE OUT OF MY CONTROL BUT I CLEANSED MY SOUL WITH THOSE TEARS MOVED PASSED THE HEARTACHE, BLESSED THE PAIN MY FRIENDS AND FAMILY FEEL NO MORE AND FORGAVE THE ONES WHO WISHED THE FAILURE ON ME GIVING ME STRENGTH AND MOTIVATION TO BE BETTER THAN THEY EXPECTED ME TO BE. I LOVE THE RAIN, IT BRINGS LIFE TO THE EARTH, MY SOUL, MY TEARS AND MY GROWTH, LIKE A ROSE GROWING OUT OF THE CONCRETE AND A TREE IN THE DESERT, I RISE, I LIVE AND I GROW, BETTER BIGGER AND STRONGER THAN BEFORE..LET IT RAIN AND LOOK FOR THAT RAINBOW, IT'S THERE LIKE A SMILE FROM HEAVEN GIVING YOU HOPE AND PEACE FOR AFTER EVERY RAINFALL THE SUN SHINES AGAIN.

PERFECT

ALLAH MADE EVERYONE PERFECT WITHIN THEYRE OWN SELVES.  HE DOESN'T MAKE MISTAKES PEOPLE DO..WHEN WE TELLS SOMEONE THEY ARE NOT PERFECT CAN YOU SEND THEIR INSIDES, THEIR HEARTS, THEIR BRAINS. WHAT MAKES YOU THINK BECAUSE I PERSON HAS AN OUTSIDE DEFECT DOESN'T REQUIRE THEM TO BE PERFECT. THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMEN IN HOLLYWOOD HAVE HAD SOME TYPE OF SURGERY TO BE WHAT SOCIETY CALLS PERFECT YET THEY ARE ALONE, CAN'T KEEP A HUSBAND HMMM SO THE OUTSIDE IS PERFECT BUT THE INSIDE IS UGLY..EVERYONE IS PERFECT IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER SUCH AS IN BEAUTY, YOU MAY SAY THAT PERSON IS BEAUTIFUL BUT ANOTHER MAY SAY THEY ARE NOT.  PERFECTION IS A MISCONCEPTION OF A PERSON'S THINKING AS INDIVIDUALS WE HAVE OUR OWN PERCEPTION OF BEAUTY AND PERFECTION.  NEVER JUDGE A BOOK BY IT'S COVER AND NEVER TAKE THE WORDS OF SOMEONE PERSONALLY, IT'S ONLY ONE PERSON'S PERCEPTIONS..BELIEVE IN YOURSELF AND YOUR OWN BEAUTY..ALWAYS REMEMBER YOU ARE PERFECT!!!