HOPE: Falling on your footholds.

 

Hope is a funny thing. We always have it, and yet often times we don't use it. Hope is a powerful thing in the savage and relentless world that we live in. In this world we are determined to find what we want, and in some cases we lose ourselves finding just that, and we forget that we are here for  a purpose. 

We must never lose sight of that.

Do we not wake up every morning understanding everything? well I dont. All I know is that I'm going to do something wrong. Figure it out, and get a little more humble along the way. I guess I would just like to share a few little mementos with you.

1. Choose Faith over Fear.

We have to have faith that we are made correctly and we are not set up to fail. God isnt going to put us down here upside-down and backwards without a way to turn-ourselves back right side out. Even if its difficult. Even if it is taxing of our very essence. Its worth it, because if he thinks its worth it then we should give everything we can to understand. 

2. Don't look back.

If you feel like past instances are haunting you then you should consider something. There is always tomorrow. You are always are going to have another opportunity, and in these opportunities you shouldn't let past negative experience determine your outcome. Do not predict that you will do pourly if that is not your intention. You have more influence over your outcome then you think (remember statement number 1? faith over fear, which includes faith in yourself) Dont psych yourself out just cause you've made mistakes in the past, and dont freak out when you make mistakes. Its all going to work out,  BUT ONLY IF YOU HAVE FAITH AND DONT LOOK BACK

3. HOPE.

You've got to have hope. Hope is key. Hope is everything. Hope is everlasting. Even if you dont pay attention to anything else you've read in thie post. remember hope. Hope will take you to a whole other playing feild of life all on its own. If you have the mentality of hope you will do great things. It keeps you open to all opportunities that come your way. If you lose hope. Your chance of happiness may just pass you by and you wont even see it because you have your emotional Eyes closed. Don't lose hope.

It is a crazy world that we live in, but sometimes we have to smile and walk forward even though we are bleeding through our teeth. Don't get down on your life because it isnt easy, just understand that we are here to be tested, and life is a journey. If you start changing directions every time you run into an obstacle then you are going to run out of directions real quick (trust me, there are only 4, but really only two, Forward or backward) 

Good luck guys.

Press on as you are. Or fall behind as someone else

Perseverance, the courage to ignore the Obveous Wisdom of Turning back.

Sometimes we dont do things because we are afraid of losing, or admitting the problem, but sometimes the problem isn't the problem we think it is at all. Sometimes fear and confusion can get in the way of the way that we are looking at something. I feel as though the fact that as humans we push on, and it makes us who we are. whether it damages us or makes us stronger. We become who we are, and if we give up? It takes from us. It taxes us of our spirit and our personality as a whole. We become empty inside and never feel as though we lived at all. So if you want to feel happy then dont wait another minute. Don't go wasting your time on cheap thrills and things that wont get you true happiness. Spend time becoming who you are. So that you have the courage to meet life and its opportunities head on, and use who you are do enjoy what you want. :)

Childlike thoughts

I thought I would write something about this picture, and the statement that is attached to it. "What would the child you once were... Think of the adult you have become?"

I think as adults were too hard on ourselves sometimes. When you think about when you were a kid. All the things that you would be when you were all grown-up. Getting out of grade school and into the "big kid school" where all the cool people were. If we only would have known what life was really like when you get older. We might take time to stop and appreciate being a kid. Where we are all so trusting, and so loving. Not tainted by the pride of the world. Still so trusting and loving of everyone, but not everyone is like that when they get older. You have to be guarded against your friends and the people around you. a good healthy sense of paranoia will keep you safe, or a loving open sense of trust will get you hurt if you get in over your head. the goal is to not get bitter after the fact of the lessons you learn. So we all have the opportunity to be like we were as a child, but with all the experience and information that we have now. We just need to think about what we want more than we want right now.

The Heart of a child is vulnerable but kind. We can learn to not be vulnerable, but we have to Choose not to be kind.

The Old days

It seems as though I've come home to the monstrous green animal that is my lawn, and not until then do I remember the consistent and frequent reminders suddenly all converging on my little cranium at once. Other things too, keep in mind that my lawn isnt ALL I think about. I mean if I was thinking about it all the time I wouldnt get anything else done. The amount of work that needs to be done just to MAINTAIN it alone is consuming, but to improve its quality? that's just out of the question.

no no, I think about many many other things including. School, Dating, Food, Money and sleep. I think about sleep quite a bit actually. I cant think of anything I love more than sleeping, but I cant think of anything I hate more than waking up. So its kind of a hate/love relationship. You can see why I dont talk about it too often. It gets me flustered.

Ah the old days. When mowing lawns was an ART! it was dont with no help from combustion engines at all! It was a cycle of blades destined to cut the grass of fate. I cant help but imagine the excitement and anticipation that people would have waiting for the newest model! In my situation cutting that grass would be most impossible. There's no way that I could walk that thing around my lawn! If I were to do so then that would be the end of my hamstrings. (and any other muscle below my waste!) So I guess the move from a push-mo-blade to Luxury Mower is quite the improvement. Even if it does take the Art out of mowing a lawn. I recall as a child the show "pepper ann" in which her and her friend decide to make money mowing lawns to buy a new pair of roller skates. She entices one of her friends into doing the work for her while she slacks off and dreams of her new skates (kind of a manger position) as the new young fervent employee takes on the challenge of making customers happy. He sees the art in mowing lawns. Doing vast shapes and images for the different green grass loving lazy people who pay other people to mow their lawns for them. In the end something happens and I cant remember. I think they get some sort of tandem lawn push-mo-blade machine and take full responsibility for the actions that she shamefully made her friend commit (He was one of those artsy types)

Anyway! I'm glad I have an Ipod some sunglasses and a riding lawnmower in a day when I dont have stamina or 4 hours to make the short plant covering my front yard....even shorter.