Love yourself.

" If you want to change the way others treat you, you should first change the way you treat yourself. Unless you learn to love yourself, fully and sincerely, there is no way you can be loved. Once you achieve that stage, however, be thankful for every thorn that others might throw at you. It is a sign that you will soon be showered in roses." -The Forty Rules of Love By: Elif Shafak

For the past week or so I've been reading a book. Now the book is about two stories that are intertwined together. It talks about a present day story and a thirteenth century story. I dont want to go into details about the book itself but the rules that are mentioned always get me thinking. This one rule (quoted above) got me thinking about life and love. Love doesn't have to mean romantic love, it can mean family love, or friendship love. It got me thinking about the way some people  treat me. A lot of people understand me wrong. I realized that I care about other people's problems and feelings more than I think about myself. I truely know now that I'm more important than others. But  what little people know that I worry about others unconsciously. People that I truly care about I worry about them. And I try with all my heart to ask about them. As much as I want people to love me, and constantly ask about me. I need to love myself. Only when I truly love myself will people love me. Know matter how hard people throw stones at me and try to tear me down, they don't realize that their hurt makes me stronger! I pull myself up higher every time! As long as I have me, I'll be ok! I'm not saying that I don't want to be loved. Cause everyone wants to be loved, but until I find the person that will take my pain off my shoulders, and helps me forget about others problems , all I have is me! Well peace until next time, love you all XO.

Snoww !!!!!!!!!

I've been wanting to post the past few days. But every day I go home extremely tired cold and exhausted from work and this amazing weather! I'm a big fan of winter! It's my favorite season of the year! This morning I woke up and the doorway was blocked!!! All I could think about was how was I going to get to work!!

After seeing the snow and thinking about work, I started thinking about all the people in this world, and how they would be dealing with this kind of weather. I was reminded by the people that dont have shelter or a roof over their head. The people that were thrown from their homes. The little kids that were found buried under the snow. And I found tears running down my face. Allah tries to tell people that he is capable of everything. But we dont even try and thank him for what we have. We complain from this weather and how we don't want to go to work because it's to cold. When we don't even realize that people are living in the cold while we are warm! I pray that god gives people what he has given me. That he keeps the Muslims and all the people in the world warm and safe at times like these! Stay warm and be safe! Peace till next time, XO!

A few pictures of the day...my favorites!