You are responsible for You

"You are responsible for You" .

Nobody can hurt you, insult you, cause you pain or grief without your consent. And the saddest part is, only people we love have the power to do so. Nobody can break your trust without you trusting them. Similar way nobody can cause you hurt, you gave them that sort of power over you in the first place, your fault. You are the only person accountable and responsible for all your actions and consequences. Nobody but you. Always remember "You are responsible for You." Your happiness and sadness everything is your own doing. Nobody owes you nothing. 

#Twintalk

Reading Naomi Shihab Nye poems today. And this particular poem made me really happy. I read it around four to five times. Yes, what you allow to flow is up to you. I usually do not post my personal pictures in my blog. But today for the very first time I'm posting this along with my pic. Because, 

I'm love, I'm peace and I'm happy. :) 

Copyright A Homemaker's Utopia

So Much Happiness:

It is difficult to know what to do with so much happiness.

With sadness there is something to rub against,

a wound to tend with lotion and cloth.

When the world falls in around you, you have pieces to pick up,

something to hold in your hands, like ticket stubs or change.

But happiness floats.

It doesn’t need you to hold it down.

It doesn’t need anything.

Happiness lands on the roof of the next house, singing,

and disappears when it wants to.

You are happy either way.

Even the fact that you once lived in a peaceful tree house

and now live over a quarry of noise and dust

cannot make you unhappy.

Everything has a life of its own,

it too could wake up filled with possibilities

of coffee cake and ripe peaches,

and love even the floor which needs to be swept,

the soiled linens and scratched records . . .

Since there is no place large enough

to contain so much happiness,

you shrug, you raise your hands, and it flows out of you

into everything you touch. You are not responsible.

You take no credit, as the night sky takes no credit

for the moon, but continues to hold it, and share it,

and in that way, be known. -  Naomi Shihab Nye - 1952