I just finished watching the last episode of Shania Twain's Why Not? I am listening to "Today is your Day," while writing this post. I must say that watching Shania's journey to finding her voice was really inspiring to me. A lot of what she was feeling pertained to myself in many different ways. For one, Shania was in a grieving process from the death of both parents. I related this to my brother's diagnosis of autism. To me it was like a grieving process of the loss of my little brother. My brother doesn't have any speech, along with other factors autism comes with. So it's almost like I lost him.
I've always considered myself to be hard headed and almost always I kept my feelings to myself. I considered crying to be a weakness. The last thing I want is for people to see me at my weakest when I have always been considered strong. Never was I one to seek for help instead I would encourage myself to help others regardless of the situation I was in. I have had many people tell me that counseling or seeing a therapist would be best for me. It's a bit absurd because even though I appreciate therapists and counselors sometimes all we really need is for us to find ourselves without the help of therapists. Most of us just need people we can relate to so we know that we are not alone. Shania's journey was to find her voice, but also to help out others that pertained to her situation. She did exactly what she set out to do.
I have learned that it is okay to cry and let those feelings out. It's what makes us humans. I still have issues with self confidence, and being myself without mockery. I am working on it slowly, but surely as I am a work in progress. Life has brought me so many incredible opportunities and I am taking it one day at a time. Because "today is your day."
You got what it takes you can win
Today is your day to begin
Don't give up here, Don't cha quit
The moment is now, This is it
I know that you can then you will
Get to the top of the hill
Part of the fun is the climb
You just gotta make up your mind
{chorus}
Today is your day
And nothing can stand in your way
Today is your day
Everything's going your way
Today, Today, Today, Today
When somebody throws sticks and stones
All they can break are your bones
And life's gonna kick you around
Then kick you again when you're down
Brush yourself up, No regrets
This is as good as it gets
Don't expect more or less
Just go out and give it your best
ps hopefully I will see Shania Twain perform at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas in 2012 (*fingers crossed)
<3 Jackie
No comments:
Post a Comment