It's been a long time since High school. It feels just like yesterday I was traveling the halls among my friends and life was much different. The world was smaller, everything seemed so far away, and everything we seemed not to matter in the long run. But these days life is different. The world is larger, with so many possibilities and choices to be made, and every choice has a bearing on where you decide to end up. Choices is the truth of life. You can choose anything, but its with what you can live with, what you want, or what can happen. Life is now quickly changing from the comfortable surreal world of the comfortable home we've grown in, to that of a large expanse with roads leading everywhere and a plethora of questions.
"I'm no longer in Kansas"
In two years schools over, the real world begins, and it will more than likely completely disconnect me from most if not all of my high school connections. In two years The surreal world ends and another one begins to be created. We are creatures of habit, we love routine, and more than likely many of you I'll never see again. I challenge all of you to not always stay in routine your entire life, for what is a life with no adventure or without following your dreams. To all of you if I see you again please take the opportunity to say hi, don't forget to introduce yourself. I will miss many of you in the years to come, and I hope many of you I can stay in contact with. But this is a post about where I am in life. I'm on the verge of transformation. I'm on the verge of the real world. I'm on the verge of leaving the surreal. Life moves fast I realize that now, but I've been lucky enough to enjoy it. I've been lucky enough to be able to slow down and enjoy it with friends and I am thankful for the friends I have made. But I'm looking to the future and I know things will change and I know new memories and friends will be made and I can't wait to embrace the future, but I want to take it slowly one step at a time to enjoy all I can.
Showing posts with label living. Show all posts
Showing posts with label living. Show all posts
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Living MY Life
Life is distracting. Life for many is all about what is going on around them; who is wearing what, what the next scandal is, or what is the best way to wear my hair. Life lived in such a way leads to never becoming one's self. Without living your life you never have a life, and without having a life how does one expect to feel satisfied?
These past few months I have been caught up in the game of Life. I've lived focusing on school, or the next event, or that one girl that keeps sitting beside me. It has been an exciting adventure and I have learned and accomplished much, but at what cost? I seem to have put many things on hold and have bypassed many things.
I have learned a lot this past year one of which is to look back on the past and learn, and not give in to the same things that you had before. One great example is the bible. It is a text of repeated blunders. From the beginning it is a story or overcoming and learning. As the story progresses it continues to reflect upon itself. It even points out continued faults of God's people repeated generation after generation for thousands of years.
Just like god's people thousands of years ago we continue to fall into these same mistakes just as we ourselves fall into the same things over and over. Whether they are temptations or sins, or just putting things off until another time. We are human, we make mistakes; but our goal is to learn, to adapt, and to put into practice what we have learned.
I have learned a lot this past year, but the most important thing is to live my life; to chase YOUR goals; and to learn from your mistakes. Without taking a chance on yourself and giving yourself a shot, you will never be completely satisfied. You will always wonder and wish, but you will only be able to act for so long; so stop, think, and reach for your goals.
These past few months I have been caught up in the game of Life. I've lived focusing on school, or the next event, or that one girl that keeps sitting beside me. It has been an exciting adventure and I have learned and accomplished much, but at what cost? I seem to have put many things on hold and have bypassed many things.
I have learned a lot this past year one of which is to look back on the past and learn, and not give in to the same things that you had before. One great example is the bible. It is a text of repeated blunders. From the beginning it is a story or overcoming and learning. As the story progresses it continues to reflect upon itself. It even points out continued faults of God's people repeated generation after generation for thousands of years.
Just like god's people thousands of years ago we continue to fall into these same mistakes just as we ourselves fall into the same things over and over. Whether they are temptations or sins, or just putting things off until another time. We are human, we make mistakes; but our goal is to learn, to adapt, and to put into practice what we have learned.
I have learned a lot this past year, but the most important thing is to live my life; to chase YOUR goals; and to learn from your mistakes. Without taking a chance on yourself and giving yourself a shot, you will never be completely satisfied. You will always wonder and wish, but you will only be able to act for so long; so stop, think, and reach for your goals.
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Loops or Balloons
I feel we have a problem! So what’s our problem? Well let’s start at the beginning…
The alarm rings, you possibly roll out of bed. You get dressed, make yourself presentable, you grab your keys and stumble outside. The cold air hits you in the face, but you’re not all awake anyway. You make your way to the food line. You give them your card and pay your money. You look at the lines, And frown, nothing. You sigh and head for what’s left; cereal. You reach for a bowl, but what to get? Fruit loops or lucky charms? You just pick one and head for the table and sit down.
Do you think about your food? Do you even stop and think about what’s going in your mouth?
Its here that I’ve discovered a problem; we need to remember:
What goes into a man's mouth does not make him 'unclean,' but what comes out of his mouth, that is what makes him 'unclean.' "
Matthew 15:11
But I’m not really talking about what you’re eating, even if it’s probably not good for you.
It’s more about what you’re feeding yourself; it’s your thoughts.
So fruit looks or lucky charms with marshmallows shaped like balloons?
I think this is where the problem lies. We as Christians see life like a bowl of fruit loops (or cheerios…. Etc…) everything is nice orderly; everything is basically the same maybe a few color changes or broken pieces here and there, but over all pretty much a perfect world. Yes, we view our Christian walk like a orderly pretty easy basic walk, that has a few changes maybe a broken piece or deformity here and their, but other than that pretty monotonous. We follow the commandments, talk to people, read the bible, sing songs, act nicely to people… etc…
But in my opinion life isn’t like a bowl of fruit loops; it’s like Trixs. It’s got those monotonous or plain “boring” pieces (as kids may say) as a majority. But it’s also got what kids crave: those amazingly delicious rainbows, stars, … and balloon shaped sugar morsels called marshmallows. Life is much more like this bowl. It’s got ups and downs and long boring streaks and also those large clumps of sweet heaven.
You might ask ok so life has ups and downs big deal. Well it is a big deal, especially in our religious walk. We have to remember life can’t always be a high and it won’t always be a low, it’ll mostly be somewhere well between the two.
But what does this have to do with feeding our thoughts?
I think many of us just sit back and coast through life. We think God won’t let our lives get too bad, and we have a few ups, but the most part were numb and just getting by. You see we are feeding ourselves this epidemic of fruit loops. We thrive of the norm, or of being “good”. But God didn’t call us to float by. He called us to take chances, to trust him. Maybe with that kind of attitude we can see the valley and the hills. When we finally see this roller coaster of life we can realize that we need to embrace and savor the high points, but we also need to recognize the lows and understand that, like Moses and Joseph before us, God will give us what we need to get us where we are for him.
So what makes this a big deal? The answer is we don’t care! I know I do it often, I just, I don’t care. I don’t’ care about who broke up with who, or what someone wore, or even what’s growing in someone else’s room. Now many things in life don’t really matter, but it is affecting our churches. You look at the churches, people just going through the actions, don’t even really know what’s going on with the church, or why even they are even there, other than they are suppose to be there. So how can we get that feeling back? And yes I’ll admit it, I’m victim to all these things, but how can we learn to enjoy the moment?
Well it starts with what we feed ourselves. We need to continually remember and reflect our purpose. But most of all we need to learn how to be emotional again. The bible shows a society of weeping, tearing clothes, gnashing of teeth; but what do we do today? We don’t show emotion; even the most emotional of our time are nowhere near this extreme. You may say well that is because our society has changed, but the action is not the point of the weeping as much as expressing your feelings. These actions just help to let it all out.
I wish we could live where we cared not for the world, but just expressed our feelings however we felt best, not caring what anyone else thought. I wish I felt as strongly about something as the men and women of the bible did. We need to really feel, to seek something attached not to our heart, and mind, but also our soul: our everything.
So next time you venture out of your bed, and grab a bowl of cereal, even if you go for the fruit loops instead of the Tixs, just remember life is no picnic, it’s a mountain range. So rejoice in the Lord, praise him with everything, but most of all do it with everything and don’t hold back.
The alarm rings, you possibly roll out of bed. You get dressed, make yourself presentable, you grab your keys and stumble outside. The cold air hits you in the face, but you’re not all awake anyway. You make your way to the food line. You give them your card and pay your money. You look at the lines, And frown, nothing. You sigh and head for what’s left; cereal. You reach for a bowl, but what to get? Fruit loops or lucky charms? You just pick one and head for the table and sit down.
Do you think about your food? Do you even stop and think about what’s going in your mouth?
Its here that I’ve discovered a problem; we need to remember:
What goes into a man's mouth does not make him 'unclean,' but what comes out of his mouth, that is what makes him 'unclean.' "
Matthew 15:11
But I’m not really talking about what you’re eating, even if it’s probably not good for you.
It’s more about what you’re feeding yourself; it’s your thoughts.
So fruit looks or lucky charms with marshmallows shaped like balloons?
I think this is where the problem lies. We as Christians see life like a bowl of fruit loops (or cheerios…. Etc…) everything is nice orderly; everything is basically the same maybe a few color changes or broken pieces here and there, but over all pretty much a perfect world. Yes, we view our Christian walk like a orderly pretty easy basic walk, that has a few changes maybe a broken piece or deformity here and their, but other than that pretty monotonous. We follow the commandments, talk to people, read the bible, sing songs, act nicely to people… etc…
But in my opinion life isn’t like a bowl of fruit loops; it’s like Trixs. It’s got those monotonous or plain “boring” pieces (as kids may say) as a majority. But it’s also got what kids crave: those amazingly delicious rainbows, stars, … and balloon shaped sugar morsels called marshmallows. Life is much more like this bowl. It’s got ups and downs and long boring streaks and also those large clumps of sweet heaven.
You might ask ok so life has ups and downs big deal. Well it is a big deal, especially in our religious walk. We have to remember life can’t always be a high and it won’t always be a low, it’ll mostly be somewhere well between the two.
But what does this have to do with feeding our thoughts?
I think many of us just sit back and coast through life. We think God won’t let our lives get too bad, and we have a few ups, but the most part were numb and just getting by. You see we are feeding ourselves this epidemic of fruit loops. We thrive of the norm, or of being “good”. But God didn’t call us to float by. He called us to take chances, to trust him. Maybe with that kind of attitude we can see the valley and the hills. When we finally see this roller coaster of life we can realize that we need to embrace and savor the high points, but we also need to recognize the lows and understand that, like Moses and Joseph before us, God will give us what we need to get us where we are for him.
So what makes this a big deal? The answer is we don’t care! I know I do it often, I just, I don’t care. I don’t’ care about who broke up with who, or what someone wore, or even what’s growing in someone else’s room. Now many things in life don’t really matter, but it is affecting our churches. You look at the churches, people just going through the actions, don’t even really know what’s going on with the church, or why even they are even there, other than they are suppose to be there. So how can we get that feeling back? And yes I’ll admit it, I’m victim to all these things, but how can we learn to enjoy the moment?
Well it starts with what we feed ourselves. We need to continually remember and reflect our purpose. But most of all we need to learn how to be emotional again. The bible shows a society of weeping, tearing clothes, gnashing of teeth; but what do we do today? We don’t show emotion; even the most emotional of our time are nowhere near this extreme. You may say well that is because our society has changed, but the action is not the point of the weeping as much as expressing your feelings. These actions just help to let it all out.
I wish we could live where we cared not for the world, but just expressed our feelings however we felt best, not caring what anyone else thought. I wish I felt as strongly about something as the men and women of the bible did. We need to really feel, to seek something attached not to our heart, and mind, but also our soul: our everything.
So next time you venture out of your bed, and grab a bowl of cereal, even if you go for the fruit loops instead of the Tixs, just remember life is no picnic, it’s a mountain range. So rejoice in the Lord, praise him with everything, but most of all do it with everything and don’t hold back.
In everything you do, do it to the best of your ability and that includes living!
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