Category: Writing

Geez, Cassandra. 🧓😳😆

The following, unfortunately, is based upon a true story. Smh:

Where are they?!

WHERE ARE THEY??!!

*Cassandra tore around the apartment looking for her glasses*

*Cassandra looked everywhere. EVERYWHERE I’M TELLIN’ YA!….😱 screams of agony and despair could be heard all over the 🌎 world.*

*Cassandra screamed so loud she woke The Universe who came to investigate the who did its and find out why*

The Universe: What in the fresh Tarantino is going on here?!

Me: I can’t find my 👓 glasses! I ALWAYS sit them on my table when I am up and don’t need them!…*stamps foot*.

The Universe: What do you do with them when you go to sleep?

Me: I put them in their case, of course(Cassandra discreetly rolls her eyes at The Universe who knows, full well, she keeps her 👓 in their case when she lays down so as NOT to lose them).

The Universe: Forgive the obvious, didn’t you just waken from an afternoon nap?

Me: Well, yea…

The Universe: (arching an eyebrow) Well? Give it a minute. It will come to you.

*Cassandra went and collected her 👓 from their customary spot in their case*.

I just stopped ’round for a quick hello and reminder to think before getting lippy with The Universe!😁🥰🧓🤗😂

Have a beautiful rest of your day.

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: In case no one has told you today: I love you. So does He.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Nah fam!

Nope.

We ain’t falling for it.

We aren’t going for the okie doke!

People are running around everywhere trying to get us all in a hoopla. Everything is crashing. Everybody hates everybody else. We will not overcome all of that is going on.

Chaos reigns in fear. Chaos NEEDS fear to survive.

Nah fam, we don’t have time to waste on lies and foolishness.

Life truly is what we ALL make it. We ALL get the opportunity to shine a light, to be a light, to make a way, to BE the way.

Let’s not fall for the old trick of division and fear. Let’s come together and talk to one another. Let’s find time common ground. Let’s decide we’re not going to waste our lives screaming yet the television and our phones.

I have done away with doom scrolling. I rarely use the social media apps except to post positive videos and messages. Life is much too short.

I just stopped by to let you know how much I love you care about your life. Turn off the phone and talk to your neighbor. Get outside for a walk. Stop living in a silo. Enjoy the stars. Enjoy the fresh air. Enjoy your life since you only get one of them. Take care.

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Be encouraged. Everything really will be okay. I refuse to hate my neighbor. I refuse to believe everyone hates me. I refuse to believe the world is filled with nothing but chaos, anger, hatred, despair and darkness. We are all responsible. We can all be a light and shine our light. I’m going to keep fighting every single day and encouraging people every single day.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Running on empty.

I am running on empty. I am running out of encouraging things to say. Okay, I’m not but it just feels like it. I’m tired of the same old, same old. I’m ready for change. I’m ready to be doing something different. I’m tired of this limbo I find myself in this last year.

I wonder if people get tired of my rah rah messages every single day?

The Universe told me to rest today and watch some action movies. Yet I find myself here. I wonder if anyone else is running on empty these days.

There has been 14 confirmed two tornadoes in my state these past few months. Exhausting. Overwhelming. Depressing. Discouraging. It feels like they would never end. I know they will eventually.

In the meantime, It’s important that we take care of ourselves. It’s important that we allow ourselves time to refresh and to refill. I think I will go find some movies to watch. I need a hero today. I don’t have the strength to be my own hero. I hear popcorn calling. Who wants to join me?

Make sure to take care of yourself. There is only one you. Summer will be upon us soon. Enjoy your day. Enjoy your life the best that you can. Remember all the things that you still have.

Remember that you are more than what you do or what you have. I have to remind myself of it every day.

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Have an amazing day. Remember that you are loved and not alone.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

What is your greatest 💪 strength, The Universe 🌌 asked me.

The Universe 🌌: What is your greatest strength?

Me: Why do you ask?

The Universe 🌌: Why won’t you answer?

Me: What if my answer disappoints?

The Universe 🌌 : Disappoints who?

Me: Yikes! Great question.

I have been trying to figure out my greatest strength for the last 56 years. Even now, I wonder.

Life seems to grow shorter by the day. I don’t want to fail. I don’t want to fall. I seem to be doing both lately.

I can’t believe we are already in to May!

Right now, my greatest strength seems to be stubbornness. I refuse to give up. I refuse to quit. I refuse to believe that it’s all over for me and my dreams. I find myself trying again. I gave up about two or three times last week.

Everything seems to be so hard right now. Everyone is stressed out. The world just seems to be a dark and dank place. It’s not. We are all in transition of some sort. We just have to keep hanging on until we find out what our strength is and then walk in that truth.

Keep fighting. Keep moving forward. Don’t lose heart no matter how dark the day seem. We can do this. We really can. We will.

Have an amazing day.

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Life is what we make it. Let’s make it a good one.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

God asked me: Why are you here?

God: Why are you here?

Me: I have been asking this question for 50 years.

God: Why are you here, with Me?

Me: Because I love You. Because You first loved me.

God: What shall you DO while you are HERE. At THIS time?

Me: I was hoping You would tell me.😁🤣🥰

Approval.

Recognition.

Validation.

Love.

Safety/security.

We are all in search of these things. We all wonder, I think, what in the world are we doing here?!😳

My 56 is wondering if I will have a 57. 60 seems much too close for comfort.

I do NOT want to leave this world without having fulfilled my whatever in the fresh hoohah I am supposed to. Ack.

I wonder if I will be asking this question 50 years from now. One can dream, eh?

Whilst you are wondering, beloveds, be sure to embrace the life you have.

Have a wonderful today.

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Be encouraged.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

It’s okay to be an idiot…sometimes.😳

It’s okay to be an idiot…sometimes.😳

I did something really dumb. I mean really dumb!…*stamps foot*.

Instead of waiting five days, I miscalculated, added dumbly, and messed up some sorely needed funds.

Five days, Cassandra!😳😡

Now, I have one less month to maneuver financially. All because I couldn’t wait for five days!…*stamps foot*

I made the decision based on fear of what “could” happen. I failed to calculate what “would” happen, NOW, IN THE PRESENT CASSANDRA! WHAT IN THE FRESH HELL WERE YOU THINKING!??

I just stopped by to encourage folk to hang in there and be good to yourself even when you do something absolutely STUPID LIKE DO SOMETHING NOW THAT COULD HAVE WAITED FOR FIVE DAYS!!…opps..ehem….my bad.

Don’t give yourself a hard time when you fall prey to being human. Try to laugh your way through the dumbness. I know I am trying to.

In the meantime, I’m having a cup of coffee, getting over the oops I can do nothing about, and getting on with my day.

In the past, I would have wasted the rest of the day kicking myself and carrying on about something that can’t be changed. I was a dumbsky. It happens.  I happened to me today…lol.

Be encouraged. Have a fabulous rest of your Sunday. Geez, Cassandra. Really?!

wondering what dumb thing I shall do next,

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note:

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Nobody cares.

Life is hard.

Nobody cares.

Go make it happen, beloveds. Make all the hard work for your good. All of it.

In the middle of quitting, I laughed.

I have too many folk to encourage. I can’t quit.

Neither can you. Get back up. Let’s go!

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: A funny thing happened on my way to quitting. I found the strength to keep it moving. Who knew? God did. Life did. The Universe did. My dreams did. So does yours. Keep going.

There is too much in us, too much before us, and too much for us to do to give up just because of sustained hard. So what?! Keep it moving.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

God asked me: What do you want?

God: WHAT do you want?

Me: I want to be financially free.

God: What DO you want?

Me: I want to help others.

God: What do YOU want?

Me: I want to encourage as many as I can.

God: What do you WANT?

Me: I want to be financially secure so I can spend my days encouraging and loving as many folks as I can.

Approval.

Recognition.

Validation.

Love.

Safety/security.

We all want these things don’t we, beloveds?

HOW/WHERE/WHEN shall we possess them?

Who are we supposed to be to have them?

What are supposed to do to have them?

Most folk don’t feel as though they were/are enough so that find themselves trying to be everybody else.

I don’t want to be anyone but me.

I want to live a life where I can enjoy the beauty of nature.

I want to be able to see beauty in my fellow man.

I want to enjoy a good cup of coffee.

I want…

What do YOU want, beloveds? It’s important to know what YOU want. Not what others want and demand for you.

Take the time to ask, if you have not. You may be surprised at what your heart truly wants for your life.

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: Have an amazing today.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

Listen: If you can’t find common ground, at least make it safe space.

My heart has been heavy watching folk tearing each other up for no reason other than they can.

No one seems to want to LISTEN.

Everyone is yelling ‘OW’ but nobody seems to want to stop long enough to ask what is hurting.

Folk seems gleeful of witnessing the suffering of others. My heart does NOT understand this.

We are all better than this.

I just stopped by to encourage folk.

If you can’t find common ground, at least make it safe space.

Listen.

Hear.

Empathize.

Care.

Rinse.

Repeat.

asking for A Friend,
Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note: We are all we got, beloveds. But, we are all we need. Life is more than money. Life is NOT climbing over others to achieve. Life is NOT meant to be hoarded just for a monied few.

Let’s give two hoots about one another, eh? Asking for A Friend.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!

God asked me: What do you see?

God: What do you see?

Me: I see a hurting world?

God: Give to them.

Me: I have nothing to give.

God: Give to them.

Me: All I have to give is me.

God: Give them you.

Me: What if I am not enough?

God: What if you are?

Me: Ah.

God: Aha!

All my life, beloveds, something inside me has been yanking at me. SOMETHING, from deep inside, just won’t let me go.

Why?

Because of YOU. Each and every one of you.

Why?

Because too many of you have never FELT love. Not really. You don’t think highly of you.

Why?

Because you have been chasing:

Approval.

Recognition.

Validation.

Love.

Safety/security.

Worse, you don’t feel as if you measure up enough to have “earned” these things.

Ah, beloveds, know ye not that you are infinitely priceless?

I think it funny that God put these words, this desire, in ME. In a me that had been made to feel worthless, by so many, for so long.

Because, I was loud. Because, I didn’t have enough this, that or the other. Because, I didn’t have money. Because, I didn’t live in the right neighborhood. Because, I wasn’t the right color.

Because. Because. Because. The world will ALWAYS have a because, beloveds. Why? So, you can fall for the okie doke. So, you can fall for the lie that you have to earn your keep.

Hear me:

You ARE worthy. You ARE worth it. You ARE worthwhile! So am I.

The world was desperate to keep me from KNOWING this. It’s the ONLY way it can keep us all locked in prisons of worthlessness.

Without worth, we feel hopeless. Without hope, any can roll up on us and take everything. Ha!

To this day, hopeless tries to slide in my DMs. I tell it to kick rocks!

I am worthy.

I am worth it.

I am worthwhile.

I have been working on this piece for almost two years. It took six months to write the question. It took months for me to ask myself the question. It took forever to find the courage to hear my heart’s answer.

It took 50 years to learn I was much more than the words, the gifts, the skills God gave me. I am awesome just cuz.

As are you! God asked me two other questions. I shall tackle the second tomorrow. The third, okay you get my point.

In the meantime, beloveds, be encouraged. Lift up your head. You are precious to me. And, to Him.

Cassandra

#YourLifeMattersToMe

Note:

In case no one has told you today: I love you. So does He.

One step.

One step.

One step.

You are loved.

You are NOT alone.

Keep on being…YOU!