Don’t ever save anything for a special occasion.
Being alive is the special occasion.

I had a friend who used her “good” dishes often and would bring them out when friends dropped by.

She was criticized by many people for not saving the dishes for the holidays and other special occasions. She was accused of being frivolous and not valuing quality items.

She’d patiently explain to them that she knew the value of the dishes, knew they were expensive but that she valued her friends and the time she spent with them just as much as her material possessions, so she considered each time she spent with friends to be a special occasion.

This blew people’s minds!

No one had ever told them that they valued their friendship so much to make the occasion seem special!

They learned that she valued her time with them so much that she didn’t want to wait for a once or twice a year opportunity.

She wanted to show her feeling to people by making everyday events into special occasions!

I learned a lot from my friend!

When I was starting over in life a couple of years ago, buying goods and furnishings for a new apartment, I made sure to choose things I love so I’d be surrounded by beauty! A lot of what I bought was from thrift stores I frequented over the months, buying something only when I fell in love with it, not just because I needed it. I was very glad I had not rushed my purchases once we became housebound with COVID, because I love my surroundings!

So my advice to you?

Choose what you love, don’t try to please the invisible “Good Housekeeping” or “HGTV” judges!

Wear the colors you love, use the good dishes, do things now that you’ve promised you’d do at a future time!

None of us knows how much time we actually have in life to live, nor do we know what’s around the next corner.

So live, and enjoy living!

Be yourself through it, if you don’t you’ll regret that, and you deserve to live a life you don’t regret!

Blessings to you if you are thinking of starting something new in your life!

May you receive the help you need, to help you in wondrous ways!

Here are some additional encouragements:

• 7 Rules of Life
• One day you wake up and realize you are truly happy from deep within your soul.
• 7 things to keep in mind
• 5 Daily Reminders: Say these to yourself in front of a mirror!
• 5 great how-to’s!
• How to set joyful goals
• Self-worth is so vital to your happiness
• Be so positive that the negative people don’t want to be around you!
• Be love, Be light!
• May the world treat you kindly today!
• Be who you want to be, not what others want to see.
• Because Being KIND is AWESOME!
• “Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?” “Supposing it didn’t,” said Pooh after careful thought.
• I honestly love being around positive people. You’re not judged, there’s no drama, everyone just wants to relax and have a nice time.
• “Letting go” – to be able to follow your Joy, and the incredible focus it brings to life!!
• Being happy is a very personal thing and it really has nothing to do with anyone else.
• Find Joy in your Journey!

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Blessings!
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Tamara

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