Everyone You Meet Is Carrying Something

From Téna Guwor

It is always refreshing to see life, people, the little things that we tend to miss as life get crazy with a different view. That at some point the person you pass by, sit across on the bus, or the person you are having dinner with also has something going on that no one knows except them. One of my all-time song I like to listen to is “Nobody Knows” by Pastor T.L Barrett and the Youth for Christ Choir.

Everyone’s life is a story and it all comes to how we choose to tell this story. we are all strong and weak at the same time, that is one trait we all share, and wonder at our breaking point. At some time in our life we get to be tested and then we get to see what we are capable of doing or who we truly are.

Have you ever been tricked by someone, and then you wish that you were the culprit and not the victim, that is how most part of our life has been. we are all just trying to make it and become something close enough to our dream or be among the small percentage who gets to keep their dream alive. I think dream changes as you get to experience and truly live life, you find out that the ultimate dream or goal for you is utmost happiness and verve for life. Not to pop your bubble, it gets difficulty and we want to give up at some point or even do. There is some things that I consider when the going gets though.

But First, I will leave this here

I turn around and I see difficulty

I turn and I see challenges

I look forward there is still hardships

I seem to be having more adversity moving forward

well there are always thorns on the way ahead

It’s never EASY, I CAN MAKE IT EASY

Decision: we all make decision in our life at every point. how do we think what we decide is the right one, we do not know we just go with it because a bigger part of us agree with that and we cannot challenge it. Yes, we may say we apply logic or it is our intuition. For example, you can decide to go home with your sister who came visiting you and would be leaving the next day but you decide not to go, knowing you might not get to see her before she leaves. All for just your imagination hoping to get something that you are not truly sure of. Inside you know you are making a wrong decision but you cannot help but to go along with it. How do we get to stop making these choices that keeps crushing our life and others? well, maybe we cannot, because it was meant to be that way.

Discipline: we all in one way or another need to discipline our self from certain things and even people. there are toxic people and things out there that will damage us, sometimes we might even be the toxic one in other people’s life or to yourself without knowing it, and accepting it is another challenge we are faced with. For instance, have you been in a relationship that you feel deeply that it not good for you but you still stay or you end up leaving and returning back to it. It is a defect in us to try and make something work and hoping it does, all we need is a little discipline and would help guild our decision.

Skill and Strength: it is not easy to have both and even be able to apply it in your life. You may be worthy to have gotten great skill or gift but sometime you do not have the strength to deliver it. You can look for people to share it, let them be the strength you need and deserve to perform your skill. Yes, it may not be easy, nothing in this gad damn earth is easy so get of that idea and work to get where you want to be and achieve it fully.

Stranger Danger: I find speaking with some you do not know is really helpful in difficult times, not your friends, family, or even your therapist. You meet someone strike up a conversation, might be about anything just let your wall down and allow a conversation to follow. In that short time, you spend yapping with them, you get to say and hear something from an unknown stranger who has might be wondering why you are speaking to them but glad you did.

When I look at people’s eye, face, and body language I would see happiness because I pretend life was once a happy little child, but then I say to myself it’s them preparing for when they get to feel truly happy with themselves and their grown experiences. Beyond that you would see survival, always filled with smile but you will also know that it was not easy as we take retrospect of our life. And sometimes happiness is the adult form of love we get to give ourselves.

About the Author:

Téna Guwor is a multidisciplinary artist and writer who finds joy in creating across every medium she can explore from photography, drawing, and poetry to pottery and beyond. She sees creativity as a way of understanding the world, with each art form offering a different language for expressing what words alone cannot. Through her Substack, Téna shares reflections and creative work that invite readers to pause, connect, and see beauty in the everyday. She hopes her writing leaves you feeling a little more curious, a little more seen, and always welcome to reach out.

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