Thought of the day; "We all live with the intentions of being happy" -Anne Frank. We all do things to make us happy, or things that we think will make us happy but really dont. I think that to many of us get our happiness from the outside in, instead of the inside out. I think thats part of my problem. Many of us (including myself) say, "if only I had this I would be happy" or " if only this would happen, then I would be happy" or in my case "If only they liked me I would be happy" I think this is what screws us over, because there is always something else you want, its never really enough. We as humans are selfish, its in our nature. Im going to work on changin that. Insted of saying "if only this or that" im going to be happy with what I have and myself without anyone elses approving words or glances. My happiness is going to come from the inside out. This morning in seminary we were talking about the way we look at things and how it effects us and everyone else. My teacher was saying how negative thoughts about ourselves affected the way we looked and judged others because thats what you get in your head. So he challenged us this: We arent aloud to say any of the following (or anything close to it) "I'm so ugly, I'm fat" we arent aloud to say anything bad about anyone and go out of our way to compliment people. He says that by doing this it can change the way you look at people. I think hes right! his is eaiser said then done but Im going to try my best!
In my world civ class (in which i usually have a hard time staying awake) we started talking about world war 1. Idk if you guys know about it but it was a huge thing between Britian, the Scottish and French. (Scottish and french were allies) They dug like trunches and were in there for protection (I have a point to this, its not just a history lesson) but once they started shooting it was a blood bath, they had to get out and go through barbed wire and all of this other crap. Anyways for my favorite part, christmas eve comes and they call it off for the night! This is a huge war and they just decided to stop for the night! They ended up talking and couldnt continue fighting the next day. Of course this was only a small section so the commanding officers split them all up the next day. But I just thought that was amazing! It just shows that we all are alike, and we all live with the intentions of being happy!
Now that iv bored you to death, if anyone is still reading I think it would be cool If everyone started focusing on having their happiness come from the inside out. When you die and go to the gates of heaven God isnt going to say " oh well look here, Bob had a mansion and Tom lived in a box on the street.. Hmm bobs better. No thats not how it works. You cant take anything with you anyways! You cant buy happiness. And who cares what other people think anyways, its over rated!!
Sorry this is so long, I guess iv just been thinking a lot and today was a little bit of an eye opener!