"Being happy doesn't mean everything is perfect. It means you've decided to see beyond the imperfections."

- Gerard Way

   If only perfect people were happy, this would be an extremely unhappy world. Happiness is a choice not a privilege. We can choose to take a situation that appears awful and make it wonderful. By simply taking every possible once of joy in a terrible situation, you allow yourself to be happy. It's really that simple. BE HAPPY. Don't just expect to have happy moments thrust upon you all day everyday. That's not how it works, you have the option to pout about anything.

   I know for me its so easy to find something to complain about in any situation if i choose to. It's just as easy to look for a positive. There will always be something that you can choose to be mad or sad about. The question I have for you now is are you going to be sad, mad, or glad? Are you going to sit around sulking, waiting for the perfect life to fall into lap? Only then will you allow yourself to be happy?

Kid President

"Don't be in a party, BE A PARTY!"

I love this kid! So much insight in such a little body. Look him up on YouTube. His videos are all about being the change, not being boring, and everyone being friends with one another. Kid President is my definition of inspiration.

"Sometimes the things we can't change end up changing us."

- Anonymous

   I feel at times that God is putting me in the most incredibly ridiculous, impossible situations. I often ask myself, why this god? Why not something else, something better? But the truth is, this is BETTER. God knows what he is doing in my life and in yours. It's defintitely easier said to belive than done. Just take each hurdle at a time with the proper amount of steps in between.
   Admit you are in a place you don't quite understand. Admit it to yourself. Don't make some big public announcement. You'll just end up making the situation something it's not. Once you yourself have come to terms with your discontent, seek guidance from the only one who can help.
   By turning to God you allow yourself to be humbled. There are ministeps within this step. Pray about it. Talk to someone you trust. Pray again and again and again. Pray with someone else. Talk with people. Talking to people is like hereing God's voice answering your prayer. In the midst of all this praying and talking, hopefully, you can accept the situation you're in.
  Now you can choose to grow from it or let it fester in your heart and control your thoughts and actions. the choice is yours. Just remember, "If you're not growing, you're dead", Anthony Robbins.



***If you're reading this and you're not the slightest bit religious, get on it! If you are going through a rough time and don't how to get out, the Church of Christ is the best, and only place to turn to. Prepareto be welcomed with opened arms, taken care of and mostimportantly be ready to be inspired by the word of God.***

Earl Nightingale

" Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it.

The time will pass anyway."

"If you don't like where you are, move. You're not a tree.

- Jim Rohn

   

I love the sass in this. He makes it sound so easy. Just get up and move. This is like a right hand to my previous post about Ghandi's quote, "Be the change you wish to see in the world." I say right hand because it does have its differences. Unlike Ghandi, Rohn approaches this scenario as unchangeable. I am a firm believer that sometimes it just comes to removing yourself from a situation. When in doubt, walk out.

   Why stay in a situation that is only destructive for you physically or characteristically? Sometimes the best, and in terrible cases, the only thing to is get yourself out!! Don't stay in a harmful situation. Let me paint you this picture:

 

A gang member, let's call him Chris. He joined the gang as a really young boy, around the age of 13. He is now 18, legal adult. He wants to get his life together. Chris has a problem though. These guys are like his family. Chris is a good soul, he wants to try and change all of their lives. Every so often he'd suggest that they enroll into classes at the community college or get a respectable job. But his family just wasn't feeling it. It got to a point that they were so sick of Chris' positivity; they became very violent towards Chris. Eventually every time he opened his mouth they'd hit him, sometimes before he even said anything. One day, when Chris finally surrendered to the fact that they weren't interested in changing for the better, he decided he wasn't going to stand by and let his own life fall apart. He got help getting out o the gang, moving cities, and starting a new, better life.

  Now, I may have just made that up, but it's that simple. In the story Chris was not happy with the lifestyles of the people around him. He tried to change it. When that was no longer an option, he took off. It comes down to this: when you've done all you can with no results, it’s time to MOVE on. You're not a tree.

Holding On: Verse 1

"All the signs of life
They’re all around me with every heartbeat":
      Life is happening. We can't do much about that, but we can chose we do in our life time. We can live to the full, or we can sulk around and wish that the bad things have happened to us in the past didn't. We can chose to live selfishly or give selflessly. Life is happening. There's a quote floating around in my head, the name escapes me at the moment. It's a pretty recognizable quote. "People change, things go wrong. Just remember, life goes on."


"I feel so alive,
I am joy and sadness,
Peace and madness":
      In my opinion, this sums up the majority of everyone's existence. The ups and downs that come with life can be describe quite simply as "joy and sadness, peace and madness." Far too often we get down on ourselves. We lose hope. We lose or peace of mind. We lose sight of what's important. But, of course we don't want the world to see our weaknesses. We don't want the rest of the world to know that we are miserable inside. So what is there to do except hide it. We put on a front and let everyone believe that we are perfection. Our face may be peaceful, but our mind is brimming with madness. What do we do?

"If only I can fight just a little longer
I know It’s gonna make me stronger":
      We fight. We fight like crazy. We hold on to what shred of faith we have left. Or at least we try to. I hold on to the lord. I know that if i just hold on, that if I don't give up on Him, He won't give up on me. I take all the faith I have left and I tie it around the waste of God and hold on. Because I know, without a doubt in my mind, it WILL make me stronger. He WILL make me stronger. I WILL be stronger.

          

"Holding On" by Jamie Grace

               I'm going to try something new. I'm going to semi-analyze a song that has really made an imprint on my schema and totally shifted my paradigm of life. I've picked a song by my favorite Christian artist, Jamie Grace, to start. Even her name lifts me up, Jamie Grace. I used to listen to this song a lot whenever felt like giving up. Whenever I failed to pursue my dreams and goals. Whenever I felt insignifcant or alone. It reminds me to hold on to God, on to hope; and to hold on to the will to be strong. Here are all the lyrics, I'll go more in depth in later posts. Hope these words can inspire you like they did me.

"Holding On"

[VERSE 1:]
All the signs of life
They’re all around me with every heartbeat
I feel so alive,
I am joy and sadness,
Peace and madness
If only I can fight just a little longer
I know It’s gonna make me stronger
[CHORUS:]I just keep holding on to what I believe
Oh, I believe in you
Give me the strength to fight
And the heart to believe
When it’s hard to believe in you
[VERSE 2:]
Oh and these are the times when doubt’s tryin’ to creep in
And I need a reason that’s larger than life when hope seems hard to find
If only I can fight just a little longer
I know it’s gonna make me stronger
[CHORUS:]
So I just keep holding on to what I believe
Oh, I believe in you
Give me the strength to fight
And a heart to believe
When it’s hard to believe
I’ll just keep holding on, holding on, holding on
Give me the strength to fight
And the heart to believe
When it’s hard to believe in you
Oh oh oh oh oh
When it’s hard to believe in you
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh, I wanna believe

If only I can fight just a little longer
I know I’ll be stronger

[CHORUS:]So I’ll just keep holding on, holding on, holding on
I’ll just keep holding on, holding on
I’ll just keep holding on to what I believe
Oh, I believe in you
Give me the strength for the fight
And the heart to believe
Cause I’ve got to believe
I’ll just keep holding on, holding on, holding on
Give me strength for the fight
And the heart to believe
'Cause I’ve got to believe in you
Oh oh oh oh oh
Yeah I’ve got to believe in you
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh, yeah I feel so alive.