To stay on track:

When I feel overwhelmed, I look to other sources for positivity. I am trying to remain on top of my a-game and am trying to stay positive even when negativity is kicking my teeth in. It is not easy. Here are some quotes that are helping me seek understanding.

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
— Mother Teresa

Some people in my life are having a tough time getting over my imperfections. They are constantly trying to drag me down and rub my face in my mistake. It's not helping me at all, and it makes sense that while they are doing this, judging me, they also do not have time to truly love me. It is not fair, but it is the way it is.

"It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not."
— André Gide

I suppose I must deal with people hating me for making my mistake. It is better for them to hate me for being a person with errors and imperfections, than being loved the way I was, unhappy and abusing alcohol to seek out happiness. When, now, with the realization that I was going down a dark and dangerous path, I can change and be happy and healthy. I'd rather be hated for making a mistake, then loved and continuing to hurt myself.

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
— George Eliot

Just because things happen and you lose track, doesn't mean you can't ever get back on track. To err' is human. We can always be what we might have been. We can always be what we want to be.


"Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bad things happen, it is up to us to move on and take each new day on with optimism and hope that things will get better. There is always a new day, and there is no reason to carry on with should have could have would haves of the past. The only thing we can change is now.


"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone."
— Bill Cosby

For as long as I live people will withhold expectations for me. Sometimes, I will be able to meet them. Sometimes I will not. Sometimes people will not be able to accept me as I am. I will not progress if I let these people falter or ruin my steps and if I try to change myself to please their needs.

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
— Robert Frost

Although at times we may wish that life could stop and we could go back. Life moves forward. No matter what, life goes on. It continues, the best you can do is to move with it and do the best you can to make the future brighter.


"If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

People who treat those who are beneath them as they are crap, are not good people. People that treat those below them with respect and help them on their way, are good people.