It's amazing how one single thing, one person, one moment in time can change your mood instantly. For the past two Mondays I've been lucky enough to have this experience and coincidentally it has been in the same spot with many of the same people and basically the same topic of discussion.
If you take one moment to look back on your life up to this moment, how many times are you able to say that one small thing or a single person changed your attitude within a second? As I sit here myself and reflect upon this idea I realize there have been many a time when this has happened to me, but the more I think about it the more I realize that many of these moments weren't as significant as the past two have been because I have made these moments that significant. For all the others I allowed the opportunity to slip past me and continue on through my life like many other things. What I now realize is that I have to build upon these moments because although they do happen to me I need to make them important in order to continue to feel as good as I do when it happens. Maybe then these moments will mean more if my mood is already as high as they normally make me feel.
Sometimes it's just about discovering something new or being reminded about something that you've known for quite some time; whatever it is, it really doesn't matter, what matters is whether or not you allow these moments to slip by. I think these moments are part of God's graces to us and it's up to us whether or not we will build upon them. He gives us the opportunities we ask for, and even when we don't ask, so why not continue to grow and build on what we're given?
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Friday, November 1, 2013
LOVE
What exactly is love? And how are you supposed to know when you are in love or when you're being loved? I've never thought about this small word so much before but now I've just been thinking about these 4 letters more and more. I think you know you're in love when you just feel amazing. You feel like nothing can go wrong and nothing will go wrong. You just want to go ahead and scream it when you see that person next and hug them and kiss them because you know you're in LOVE! But what happens when you get that feeling more than once? When you meet someone else and get that exact feeling you just had...
Now it gets confusing and fuzzy and blurry, and then you're not so sure of what to do. You feel so weird, but it's that 4 letter word that still makes you feel so good. And that small simple feeling makes you feel like nothing is wrong. But are things really that wrong? After all it's just a feeling, but because it has been made out to be a big deal is why you freak out; it's why you panic for feeling it for two different people. Part of you is so excited and happy and feeling the best you could ever feel in your entire life; then your other half is screaming and tearing you apart inside because it has no idea what is going on or what you're going to do about it. And on the outside you have to be completely calm, completely fine about what is happening to you. Then you're alone and you can break down; you can break down over a four-letter word that has put you in this position--a position you would have never pictured yourself in.
Love. What a crazy, stupid, beautiful, insanely perfect word that can make you feel so much more than just the one emotion it's defined to evoke. It is possibly the only word that makes you feel happy then completely sad all at once and so quickly from one to the next. How crazy is it that one simple word can change your thoughts and feelings in an instant.
Now it gets confusing and fuzzy and blurry, and then you're not so sure of what to do. You feel so weird, but it's that 4 letter word that still makes you feel so good. And that small simple feeling makes you feel like nothing is wrong. But are things really that wrong? After all it's just a feeling, but because it has been made out to be a big deal is why you freak out; it's why you panic for feeling it for two different people. Part of you is so excited and happy and feeling the best you could ever feel in your entire life; then your other half is screaming and tearing you apart inside because it has no idea what is going on or what you're going to do about it. And on the outside you have to be completely calm, completely fine about what is happening to you. Then you're alone and you can break down; you can break down over a four-letter word that has put you in this position--a position you would have never pictured yourself in.
Love. What a crazy, stupid, beautiful, insanely perfect word that can make you feel so much more than just the one emotion it's defined to evoke. It is possibly the only word that makes you feel happy then completely sad all at once and so quickly from one to the next. How crazy is it that one simple word can change your thoughts and feelings in an instant.
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