I’ve done a lot of thinking lately about what my underlying values are. I think that this graphic sums it up pretty well – I made this after trying to think of four core words that describe how and why I want to live.

it won’t be easy to balance all of these. sometimes one will have take a back seat to another. if I find that religion rings true, these values will work into that; and if I don’t, I can still uphold them based on many of the morals I was raised on and many I have discovered in my time since then.

and I have to give myself room to mess up, too, and leave room for where others’ equally valid and “real” points of view clash against mine. in the end, though, the only person I can change is me, to my own happiness, and then extend what I can offer to those around me.

it’s been a week of big changes – all good ones, and all ones that have needed to happen. guess I’ve been doing a lot of reflecting, heh.