Hollow areas in life are not always what they seem to be. They often seem empty because we have simply lost sight of the beauty that they offer a home to.

Our weak points in life are our most beautiful learning experiences.

Imagine a world where every opportunity was blindly approached by our first thought. Envision a life where every action took place as a reaction to something that was out of our control. Now take those two ideas and create a life that has no room for failure and no forgiveness for mistakes. This would make up a good percentage of the way that many of us live these days. There is no right or wrong way to approach things, but having an approach is what most of us lack. We take things at face value instead of figuring out what they mean to us and why they affect us the way they do.

I created voids with my actions in life to then avoid taking the actions needed to understand them. Dishonest ways of living became as normal as they needed to in order to feel as if I was doing nothing wrong. I grew physically while emotionally I remained stuck in a place where knowledge of self was a foreign ideology. I became aware of the areas in my life that held promise but I had no idea how to find the value behind those promises because I was not willing to try hard enough to obtain them. When I began to understand the way that things affected me instead of just accepting them is when true growth began to occur and life began to show me the things that I had been missing.

Learning to stop for a moment and figuring out why things affect us the way they do is the hardest task that some of us will face. To gain an upper hand on our problems we must be willing to stop for a moment and really take a look at the things that affect us on a regular basis. In Learning to do this, we will provide ourselves with a much deeper understanding of the things that we love and also it will help us understand to deal with the things that we don’t.

What will you do today to see life’s “Hollow” moments as ones where love can flourish and happiness can be obtained?