{"id":12081,"date":"2015-09-23T10:45:04","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T15:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/?p=12081"},"modified":"2017-07-25T13:25:32","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T18:25:32","slug":"dear-gabby-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/tartan-news\/2015\/09\/23\/dear-gabby-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Gabby"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Processed<\/a>Dear Gabby,<\/p>\n

I have always seen myself as pretty positive person, but recently, I have been going through a lot of things in my life and I slowly feel like I\u2019m losing myself. I keep finding myself becoming more negative and I\u2019m not sure what to do.<\/p>\n

I feel like everything in my life is going to crap and it really bums me out. I\u2019m wondering what you do to stay positive and how do you overcome obstacles in life?<\/p>\n

Sincerely,
\nFinding Inspiration<\/p>\n


\nDear Finding Inspiration,<\/p>\n

I completely understand how you feel. I know it doesn\u2019t always make it better, but just know that you\u2019re not the only one who feels this way. I look at life as a roller coaster. There are always going to be ups and downs\u2014as Frank Sinatra said, \u201cthat\u2019s life.\u201d I think a lot of people look at life as either being good or bad, but having a few bad days doesn\u2019t mean there isn\u2019t hope for a turnaround.<\/p>\n

Our experiences in life really take a toll on us, but I think, in my opinion, the best way to think is living one moment at a time. Don\u2019t let one bad moment ruin the chance for a great moment. I know it\u2019s so easy to get caught up in the negativity in our life. It\u2019s like one minute we\u2019re swimming, and the next we\u2019re drowning, and once we hit that moment, things seem to become too hard to handle.<\/p>\n

What I can say is that the best thing I have found to help me keep my hope is by surrounding myself with good and positive people. It\u2019s easier to get out of the \u201cfunk\u201d of things when you have people around you who have your best interest at heart. \u00a0Whenever I lose positivity or find myself bummed out, I always like to do something to find peace. For me, it\u2019s stargazing or taking a walk in nature. It\u2019s nice to find beauty in life, and realize that there are so many things to be grateful about, you just have to find it. Whenever I am looking for something to help me overcome obstacles, it\u2019s more about focusing on self-growth and self-love. I think finding hobbies that take my mind off of the struggles in life, or reading self-motivation books. Just think\u2026 it\u2019s really like trial and error when finding positive inspiration, things will get better.<\/p>\n

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Look for hope,<\/p>\n

Gabby<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Gabby, I have always seen myself as pretty positive person, but recently, I have been going through a lot of things in my life and I slowly feel like I\u2019m losing myself. I keep finding myself becoming more negative and I\u2019m not sure what to do. I feel like everything in my life is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2030],"class_list":["post-12081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tartan-news","tag-gabrielle-sharp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5s3vR-38R","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12081"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12083,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12081\/revisions\/12083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}