December 2, 2012

• How To Continue To Be Awesome…

  Delightful December #1

  … approximately 3 years ago ‘TheMarriedFreshman’ initiated the use of the word ‘Claire-some’ to replace awesome. This prompted me to create this post about awesomeness in which every time I used the word ‘awesome’ I linked it to a Xangan who I considered to be awesome. Re-reading it leaves me with a sense of happiness at the memorys but also sadness as I realise that many of those Xangan’s have either closed down their sites or stopped posting in my 3 year absence….

  AnamcharaConcepts, MomGoneMadd, EsotericTheaterLover, Fairywife, shatterFocus, the_fur_pimp, TheBigShowAtUD

  It makes me sad not to know what happened to them, why they left or why they stopped posting. But I can hope that it was all for good reasons.

  However, I am also pleased to find that many of my favourite Xangan’s still continue and that I have been able to pick up where I left off with most of those people. In that light I feel the need to repost parts of my post about being awesome because it is important that we all realise our own worth. It makes me sad to know how many people don’t and I wish that I could find a way to make everyone realise what makes them wonderful and unique.

  Now, as many of you may know (and some of you may not yet realise), I am in fact, awesome. So much so that three years ago Xanga’s favourite Married Freshman put to me that the word awesome should be replaced with ‘claire-some’. In response to this I rather modestly insisted that I am not at all awesome, not when you look at all the other wonderfully amazing people in the world… oh…. wait… that was a different person. I actually liked the idea so much that I decided to write an entire post in reference to my own awesomeness Or should I say… Claire-someness.
  We all have different ideas of what can be defined as awesome. What do you picture when you hear that phrase?

         

  We all have something that makes us as awesome as all of those images. The strength of our character, the depth with which we love, the intelligence of our thoughts and ideas, the power with which we fight for what we want or what we need, our faith, our ideals, our talents, our beauty, our joys.
  To learn to love yourself is to learn to realise your own awesomeness

  Take some time to look at yourself, and all the things that make you who you are. All the things that make you beautiful, wonderful and awesome. Don’t focus on the negative. Yes, you may have a bit too much weight around the middle, you may get angry too quickly, you may find it difficult to trust others, you may find it difficult to keep friends, you may find it difficult to study. But that is not all that you are. That is not what defines you. And seen in a different light all of those things can be turned into positive things. You just have to try. Look at yourself through someone else’s eyes.

   
  You are awesome. Just look.

  Disclaimer: If you have read this and not been linked it is not because you are not awesome, you are full of awesomeness and I would very much like to get to know you to find out how amazing you really are.

  @myxldove @garistotle, @persiankitty, @Fairywife, @shatterfocus, @the_fur_pimp, @karoline1982, @kidzandk9z, @mellibella, @randaness, @randomneuralfindings, @sarahfus, @SimplyNita, @SUMRdaisy, @thegirlwiththecamera, @TheMarriedFreshman, @TheTheologiansCafe

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