Are You Letting This Crush Your Dreams?

Don't let this stop you from being happy. Dream big and surround yourself with people who want to see you and help you be happy :)
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Hey! I'm Raya from RayaWasHere. I make videos about travel, lifestyle and personal growth. Through my videos I want to share and inspire a journey of personal growth and self development. I want to share with you what I learn and how I grow from my travels as well as things like how to overcome your insecurities, how to find your passion, how to have a healthy relationship with yourself and others and so much more!
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Be Kind to Yourself, Be Kind to Each Other and Be Kind to The Planet.
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[@jonelafilms]

My mother has always told me there are 2 types of people in the sea of life - bright colorful balloons and grey heavy rocks. Those balloon people would elevate you from the deep waters, would inspire you and excite you about life, would make you happy and confident and believe you can achieve anything. Where as the rocks would drag you to the bottom of the sea, would put you down and be negative about anything and everything you share with them, would make you feel insignificant, almost unworthy of anything good that's happening to you. You need to cut ties with all those rocks, because life truly is too short to be constantly drowning in their negativity, you need people that would keep you afloat or even help you fly. For many years I forgot about her preaching with busy life, work, study and all however I recently found myself in such a deep hole that as soon as I did a purge of the so called rocks in my life I felt liberated. I would share something exciting or new happening in my life and they would always make me either feel bad about being happy or would present a list of all the bad things that could happen from that new thing I've decided to embark on. I found myself almost terrified to share with them when I was excited because I knew they would kill my buzz. Cut those rocks out people!!!!

[@vliciouss]

I love this !!! 💕

[@NenaLavonne]

Wonderful message! Thanks for sharing! 😊✨✨✨

[@111-e7n2k]

It is best to just get rid of all toxic people in your life - neighbours, friends or family members. Also do not live up to the expectations of other people. Just be yourself in all circumstances. Also refrain from criticising, complaiining or comparing.

[@jonelafilms]

Agree 10000%! The majority of the time talking to them doesn't help and they continue to dim your light, I've had many of those people in my life and the best and only solution is to cut them out completely. Talking to them and asking them to change their ways only prolongs things and you fall into this denial hole of believing they would change but they need time. Nah... Life is too short to surround ourselves with miserable people trying to make us as miserable as they are.

[@Lindsweightloss]

Well said!!

[@mastandstars5869]

Very good topic Raya. Also maybe I can be one of those people at times who feels small when seeing others moving forward in life. It’s a good opportunity to explore within and see where I can shift. Much Love Raya and I’d like to see another video in this series.

[@GavinoBernal]

As A Friend I’m gonna say Excellent video today Raya. I hope you have a fantastic day, night, & evening. Stay cool, stay awesome, stay swag, stay unstoppable, stay incredible, stay popular, stay great, keep having fun, keep being the best Traveler KZbinr, & stay strong Raya. Keep up the good work. Enjoy your Sunday.👑☺️👍🙏🏆

[@ChristinaSears]

Hey Raya, First, I'm so excited you got to experience the East Coast of Canada. I have family out there and its absolutely one of my favourite places to visit. A few years ago I brought my husband (before we were married) and although its a lot of "country" for his taste he loved it. My favourite place I visited in Nova Scotia was Peggy's Cove, we went on the most perfect day!!. I also felt soooo connected in PEI!! I hope your family vacation went well!!!! I know Canada is where I live so maybe I'm a little bias, but its such a beautiful country to visit!!! Second, I totally have been through re-evaluating my life many times. I went to school for journalism, and then changed my career path after a few years of feeling lost at the age of 30! LOL! Now i feel so good in the work I do and I feel like I'm making an impact on the lives and minds of the children I work with. (I'm an early childhood educator)! I still evaluate my life and try and just stay on a path that is good for me and my spirit! Christina Hamilton, Ontario Canada

[@mind5367]

Hmm yeah it's actually sad i couldn't share my success without people around me being proven wrong or feel a little intimidated. And some will criticize . So yeah they may be lacking something that is why they are defensive. Thank you for making this video Raya

[@TheKonohaKunoichi]

Your hair got so long! Love it 😊 aand you are absolutely right with your advice! Love from Germany

[@RayaWasHere]

Aw thank you!

[@DeliaRivera]

Hi Raya! I always watch, but never comment. lol I am looking forward to seeing you at Blogher! 😊

[@dearben3555]

Aw I love this! ❤️

[@kreade100]

love from Nova Scotia

[@Lindsweightloss]

krista mac ❤️

[@91DCA07]

Love this ♥

[@biswashrai2750]

love from India

[@priyasubbaiyan6055]

Super

[@faithwithsheldon]

1st finally

[@EmilyClaireDaly]

I thought this video was going to the place of 'get rid of them straight away' but rather, you stressed the idea of understanding where their hurt/jealousy is coming from and how we can help our friends through that. Soooo refreshing.

[@lilah.j]

As a senior in college, I found this especially applicable to the current environment that I am in. Encouragement is often neglected when fierce competitiveness fills the air. I try to keep in mind that we are all playing our own game, some may be falling behind while others are leading ahead. However, wouldn’t we be winning this game if we all just cheered each other on? I think that’s what we all deserve. ❤️

[@RayaWasHere]

1000%! Also, one of my fav quotes: ‘A rising tide lifts all boats’

[@lilah.j]

RayaWasHere I absolutely love that!

[@VaicomaDany]

I love your videos, i´am Dany from Brazil, kiss

[@GeorgiesBookNook]

It's so true that you should surround yourself with people who support you - I've learnt this over the past year and it's made such a difference to my wellbeing!

[@Lindsweightloss]

Georgie Minter-Brown exactly Georgie ☺️👌🏻

[@RayaWasHere]

Yess! Amazing, so happy for you!

[@jonelafilms]

Поздрави от мрачния Йорк! ^.^

[@aqna69]

Hi, Raya your all videos are amazing

[@RayaWasHere]

Thank you! ☺️

[@ashleyhood7479]

This is definitely good to think about :-). I have a coworker that insults me or steals all the attention for herself whenever something good happens for me. I have definitely let the discouragement stop me from pursuing certain ideas and becoming a better scientist in some ways. Even though those ideas I dropped would have benefitted this person. It’s definitely good to categorize those people on the “don’t listen” list. Unfortunately, we can’t just move away from one bad coworker. Raya is right also that we should try to help these people! As a Christian, I’m told to love others, especially those that aren’t kind to me. There’s got to be a good balance somewhere between keeping friends that bolster your goals and ideas and helping the negative ones. You shouldn’t spend all of your time being with negative people trying to help them, but I don’t think you should just cut them out either!

[@archierko2410]

ArchieRKO (;

[@Lindsweightloss]

Loved when you mentioned that being jealous might be a sign of not being satisfied in that specific area of your life. 👌🏻 Hello from Malta 🇲🇹!! Just wanted to show you how wide spread your audience is 😉

[@RayaWasHere]

Thank you! And Hello haha that’s awesome! ☺️

[@Lindsweightloss]

@@RayaWasHere hi Raya!! keep on doing what you're doing xoxo

[@hardikharsora18]

Thanks

[@melissarachel2735]

Great advice - thank you!

[@alexasanz73]

👍