Moving Forward

I don't quite remember how it was seeded into my mind that once I was married, my path to self-discovery and mental growth would end. Somewhere, unintentionally, it did happen. In retrospect, over the last 10 years, everything seemed to be happening TO me, not FOR me, and not BY me. I felt then, without realizing it, that the person I was, and the person I wanted to be, had no control over anything; including the cause and effect in my life. There was an overlying set of ethics involved. So inadvertently given power, I never realized they were there. At the age of 18, I gave my powers away freely. Due to this set of ethics I had been brainwashed by, I offered up my mind, my heart, my power, and my independence, to the outdated and chauvinistic principle of God - my new husband.

Examination of my life, those choices, and the aforementioned ethics, I am discovering now is probably the most powerful asset I can ask for on my journey to the expansion of only those principles and ethics that I consciously choose for myself, including spirituality, happiness, and the re-introduction to someone I used to love dearly-

Myself.