soap box

Okay. This blog is a journal to me. To document all of life's happenings, including my thoughts(even if I'm no good with words...). SO I've been thinking...

For the sake of the Facebook world, and in turn for all of our sakes, why can't it be the month of November all the time?... For one whole month, thanks to a wonderful holiday, everyone, especially the Facebook world, is filled with everyone's gratitudes. Then, all the sudden November is over and so many of us go back to posting and focusing on the things that aren't so great...

And ya know what? It bothers me. A lot actually. Haha so I realize this is a little contradicting of what I'm saying, since I'm kind of complaining? However, I don't want this to be a "complaining" post, but here's how I see it... We've all got our struggles. Some of us have the same struggles, and some of us have very different struggles, but they are all struggles nonetheless. So why not just help each other out and focus on the good as if it were November all the time?! Can it really be that hard? All you have to do is just think about it for one second, and you come up with a million things your thankful for (we ALL do it during the month of November. It's obviously possible.) People... I'm just tired of reading Facebook posts and hearing people talk about things that were once full of joy and thankful hearts, now turned to complaints and pity parties... I just feel like if you were to focus on the good as much as possible, you would see less bad. The bad stuff probably won't go away completely, and there's always something to complain about (traffic!!! grr... ;) but in my own life, I've seriously strived to be an optimist, and I've seriously seen the difference it makes. I don't just cover up or ignore the bad things, but when I'm really focusing on the good things, it's actually hard for me to think of things to complain about. A real perspective changer.

This last weekend as Chance and I were on our awesome date (see previous post) we witnessed such an amazing thing. A little girl, maybe 8 or 9 years old, came to the rink. She was in a wheel chair. The two women she was with got her a pair of rental skates, put them on her feet, pushed her chair out to the rink, and then lifted her in their arms and began to skate with her. They had to go extremely slow, and it looked a little difficult, but oh the joy in that little girls face. The life in her laughter and giggles. She was SO happy. She was so happy to be skating. She was so happy to see the two women she was with, skating. SO SO happy! They only took her around the rink once then took her back inside where she watched everyone skate, and the two women took turns going out to skate and waving to the little girl inside, dancing on the ice to make her laugh. And this little girl was so happy. We couldn't get over how happy she was even with the circumstance she was in. We can all learn a lesson from this little girl. You choose your happiness, regardless of your circumstance. You get the choice.

To take a line from my favorite poem-

"Your playing small does not serve the world.... As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same."

That little girl has no idea who I am, and probably has no idea how much she inspired me.

Let's all come together and lift each other up! Heaven knows we need all the good we can get in this world we are living in.

I just want everyone to be happy!

Soap box over.