Amazing Grace

I wondered if anything like this has happened to anyone here. In the last month, my entire life has been turned around in a positive way - and I am not fighting it! I quit smoking and have no desire for cigarettes (which has never happened before), I joined a group to help me stay free from my hard-partying ways, and I've been very kind to myself in the areas of diet and exercise. I feel so blessed and I am full of gratitude for this change! Usually, I am pessimistic, reactive and moody. It's a complete turn around. What made this happen for you? Is it a higher power thing?

is it a higher power or did you finally tap into your own true power?

however you understand it, good for you and i send you my well wishes with your new approach to life!

For me, I've been wavering between atheism and "the truth is out there" for a long time. This time, I have to go with a nameless higher power because I've tried to do this all on my own for SO LONG, and it hasn't worked. Other people are coming out of the woodwork to help me - I feel like the subject of some secret trust exercise. Thank you for your well wishes!

I am glad to hear that you have found "your place".  I am no way in that situation, but love to hear that others are able to get there.  I wish you well in all that you do!

I know how you feel, bro :)  Did you ever see that movie, The Truman Show?  Sometimes I feel like that too - everything just fits together so well some days that I feel like it must be orchestrated by somebody.  Then I wonder if it's just a beautiful mathematic machine run by chaos theory... but whatever it is, I'm not complaining.

Even He-Man had to call upon the power of Greyskull ;)

grats on the life changes btw

By the power of Greyskull!!! How did you know I was the Prince of Eternia? (Actually, I'm She-ra, but what the hey)

Yeah, and don't talk trash about his pegasus either!

 

Congratulations!  The same thing happened to me, ironically once I hit college.  I completely left my covertly-depressed, anorexic, hard-partying ways and became a much more loving, happy, uplifted person.  I appreciate life so much more now than I did in high school, and I couldn't be more grateful for my life as a whole.  While it took me a few years to really love the person I am, I really do now--and I'm so proud of who I've become.  All those harder times were just strengthening me up for the person I am now; without those experiences, all of my luck and blessings in life wouldn't mean nearly as much to me as they do.  There has to be something greater out there.