Lift, Don't Lean

"The two kinds of people on earth that I mean, Are the people who lift and the people who lean." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox, nineteenth-century poet

For many years, I was a leaner. People got extremely tired of me leaning on them all the time. They would try to help me. They would try to lift my spirits in some way. But I was determined to be a victim of my life, going around depressed all the time, hoping that people would feel sorry for me and give me extra attention. The problem was that it gets old hanging out with people who can never find anything positive in life.

I'm not leaning anymore though! I often share that I hit an emotional bottom some time ago and I realized what was going on. I still had some people in my life who were willing to show me the way to a happier existence. I was able to learn how to let go of my worries (to a Higher Power) which allowed me to lighten up! It is my goal to lift people up now. I think I do a pretty good job of it. I don't ever want to be that one in a crowd that is always leaning and never lifting.

Today my purpose will be to lift others up. No leaning for me today! :)