The other day, I had such a meaningful, deep, caring, and honest conversation with one of my good friends who I don't see nearly as much as I'd like to. There were so many takeaways, but there was one that I had to share with y'all. I'm sure I'll share more little nuggets of wisdom later, but there was one message that was pressing that I needed to share:
Attack life.
Seriously, I'm talking full on assault. Too often we wait for life to happen. We wait for opportunities to show up neatly wrapped up at our door; we wait for some sort of superhero or "sign" to present itself and launch us into our lives, who we'll end up with, and who we are supposed to be. And the real question here is this: Why wait?
What are you waiting for? Attack life and show it that you mean business and you are here to fulfill your purpose, whether that is being a baker, the president, a candlestick maker, or actor. Our time here is limited and even more, the time we have left is unknown, so why are we waiting for life to make itself awesome, when we have the opportunity to make life awesome for not only ourselves, but others as well?
Sometimes there is no magic happening around us, sometimes it seems like there are no opportunities, and that's okay. The cool thing is that we can make our own magic and create our own opportunities for growth. If we dig deep enough, we'll see that we can be the creators of our own magic and our own happiness instead of waiting for someone to hand it to us.
The great thing about being human is that we're allowed to mess up and change our minds and grow from that. We're allowed to leave if we need to, we're allowed to go out and be adventurers and explore this world to figure out what we want and what we're truly passionate about.
So what are you waiting for? Go out and attack life. Life is too short, and your time is now.
Don't be a Grinch
10.11.13
You know what I think? We should all just be decent human beings to one another. No, not just decent, but ridiculously inspiring and amazingly kind human beings. Wouldn't that be awesome?
But let's be real, some people are going to be absolutely rotten to you. You might leave a conversation feeling like you've talked to Cruella DeVil on her way to make furs out of Dalmatians or the Grinch on his way to steal Christmas.
Here's the catch - you don't have to reciprocrate their rotten-ness. I mean, it would be easy to just be rotten right back, treat them the way they treated you. But you my friend, you have a choice, a conscious choice, on how YOU will act.
You can't control Cruella or the Grinch, you have no control over how they treat you, but you do have control over how you treat them. Choose to be at the VERY LEAST decent to them. Choose not to be rotten, because when was the last time that two rotten people made anyone happier? Choose to show them love, because honestly, I'm sure Cruella expects people to be rotten to her, and heck, so does the Grinch, they're used to it. But what they're not used to, is people being kind even when they aren't.
So be a kind, amazing, inspiring human being, regardless of others actions. Don't let rotten people dictate how you are going to live your life, because it's YOUR choice on how you treat people and how you live. And I'll agree, it's REALLY hard to always be happy and kind and amazing, and all those other good adjectives, but at the VERY least, chose to be nothing less than a decent person.
Make the conscious choice to be a good person, because the world could always use more good people.
But let's be real, some people are going to be absolutely rotten to you. You might leave a conversation feeling like you've talked to Cruella DeVil on her way to make furs out of Dalmatians or the Grinch on his way to steal Christmas.
Here's the catch - you don't have to reciprocrate their rotten-ness. I mean, it would be easy to just be rotten right back, treat them the way they treated you. But you my friend, you have a choice, a conscious choice, on how YOU will act.
You can't control Cruella or the Grinch, you have no control over how they treat you, but you do have control over how you treat them. Choose to be at the VERY LEAST decent to them. Choose not to be rotten, because when was the last time that two rotten people made anyone happier? Choose to show them love, because honestly, I'm sure Cruella expects people to be rotten to her, and heck, so does the Grinch, they're used to it. But what they're not used to, is people being kind even when they aren't.
So be a kind, amazing, inspiring human being, regardless of others actions. Don't let rotten people dictate how you are going to live your life, because it's YOUR choice on how you treat people and how you live. And I'll agree, it's REALLY hard to always be happy and kind and amazing, and all those other good adjectives, but at the VERY least, chose to be nothing less than a decent person.
Make the conscious choice to be a good person, because the world could always use more good people.
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