Awakening Sleeping Beauty

If you wake up grumpy and sleepy every morning, does that make you Snow White? ~ Unknown

Seriously though, today's quote in the "Simple Abundance" book is "We are the hero of our own story. ~ Mary McCarthy. 

Today's story is about a pretty girl who posed for a photo newspaper article in front of a garbage pile to emphasize it's massive size. After that, the kids at school called her "just a pile of garbage". Author Sarah compares it to pricking her finger on a spindle and just like sleeping beauty, falling asleep, becoming numb to  her own beauty because it traumatized her for most of her life, yet she did eventually overcome the trauma. Been there, done that! Have you? It's time to wake up and not look back. I've always said, Everything that I've been through in my life, good or bad, until now, has made me who I am today. Sarah quotes fellow writer Merle Shain, saying, "One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless".