By avdesing on Skatehive
For our world to change, we must first change ourselves, and then that change will be reflected in the outside world. I didn’t used to understand what I’ve just written; I used to hope that situations would change, improve, and that I’d see positive things and people, but that never happened. I also used to think that happiness depended on things outside myself. The shift in my thinking didn’t happen overnight; it was a process, one I embraced, even though it meant facing some very difficult truths about my life. I wanted the truth, and that came at a cost, but I accepted the consequences. I had to go through that process if I wanted other things in my life. One of them was the sort of people I surrounded myself with or who came into my life. Before, I couldn’t even recognise a negative person; I was so immersed in a negative environment that it seemed normal to me. And worst of all, negativity attracts more negativity, creating a vicious circle. I had to break that circle, but I could