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Truth About Resilience, Reflection, Self Love, and Growth

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The Truth About Resilience, Reflection, Self Love, and Growth You’re never too old to learn life lessons, grow, or reinvent yourself, even if your confidence is shattered from past life trauma. You can learn from it or let it destroy your self esteem. Become who your past self meant for you to be and choose to focus on the lesson rather than just the pain, which allows you to grow. Rebuilding involves rediscovering your true identity beneath the trauma. New things and people come a long. But you got to rebuild yourself and find your true self you want to be. When you start doing good with that, you’ll live and forget the trauma, it won’t be fully but you’ll remember the lesson that the Lord up above put upon you. Things don’t work out sometimes because He above has something better for you in the future as long as you self love yourself for who you are. Life lessons learned become part of your strength, and the pain diminishes over time. 

Green Bell Peppers or Mangoes?

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Is it a green bell pepper or a mango? Most people know the difference. But, that might been a different story to elderly Midwestern people! My mom was a native of Central Indiana, and one thing I managed to not figure out until later on was that green bell peppers are not really mangoes. In the Midwest of the USA, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Missouri, Kentucky, and Indiana in particular...many people call green bell peppers 'mangoes' because they were raised this way. A lot of the older generations call a green pepper a mango because they have been called mangoes for over 500 years. "Hey, Sweetie, please slice up this green mango for Granny, thanks, Hon!". When is a Bell Pepper a Mango? Are mangoes a tropical fruit that grow on mango trees? Why and what do some people call green bell peppers as mangoes, especially older people? Both are actually called FRUIT but most refer to a pepper as a vegetable...let me solve that great green pepper vs mango Mango Tango mystery for you, ...