The Great Pursuit
6 MONTHS LATER HELLO AGAIN. I understand how random and spread out these posts are, but life gets in the way sometimes (yes, even for this long) and quite honestly sometimes I just don't feel like doing this. Recently I've felt very distant from what is important in life, and distant from something I so love to do which is writing. As my schedule has started to become more of a routine, I've found some free time to start this again. I apologize for the irregularity, but hope you'll enjoy as always.
So, second semester sophomore year has started. 2016 is here and there's a whole new year just waiting to show us all that it has in store. I've concluded something very specific and personal about 2015. It was the year I changed most as a person, but also revealed to me the reality of this life we live.
Life is hard at times, emotionally, physically and mentally. And I’ve started to really understand that all the appealing and intriguing attributes that the idea “growing up” had to offer, are not the only qualities that come with it. If anything I’ve realized mainly that growing up is an unsettling insight to the painful world we live in. On my CNN app every day I get a new notification that there’s been another shooting, another video from ISIS, another suicide bombing, another this, another that and it is one after the other constantly. It has become common to me. I’ve been asking myself a lot lately why now such awful things are happening in our world and why so often. It's not that our world is starting to fall apart all right now in 2016, it’s the fact that as we grow up we are becoming so aware and involved in the world around us. I’ve also noticed that growing up doesn’t only introduce us to the battles the world faces, but also the battles we ourselves personally face. We become introduced to so many insecurities that we never even realized were flaws, things that never even crossed our minds. We start to see our bodies and ourselves as imperfect and start to allow a whole new perspective control the way we see ourselves. The perspective of society. The world then introduces us to all the "solutions", like bullying, bulimia, anorexia, self-harm, depression, suicide etc. When we were kids we were protected and hidden from the news and from self-loathing and we lived in a world so distant from reality. Sometimes I look at children and think about innocent they are, how little of the world they know, how little they've have to deal with and just how envious I am of that simple, easy joy. With growing up comes freedom, responsibility, opportunity and enjoyment but it also brings confusion, pain and realization.
As we’re introduced to a world of violence and self loathing I think now more than ever is when it is most important to be positive. Everyone causing such damage and danger was once a child. Everyone struggling and battling once had that childlike joy and behavior, and somewhere along the way they were introduced to some kind of torture and lost themselves. I think a lot of people, including myself, get so caught up in the fact that this is just the way the world has to be, and we have to go along with it because that is the generation we happen to be in. Growing up with the pressure to be perfect and the things we have to experience should not be looked at as just a “stage that everyone goes through”. Don’t allow lies and horrible things happening around the world dictate the one life you get to live and the happiness you experience throughout it. During all the times I truly struggled I asked myself, “do I want to be this person and can I be doing these things for the rest of my life?” Look at your life and ask yourself that question. If the answer to that question saddens you, then change the direction you are going immediately. The place God puts us in right now might not always be to benefit us, but others. And if the place you are in right now saddens you, not only will it continue to affect you negatively, but also the people around you. What people are so blinded to is that the pain they battle with inwardly affects the people around them extremely.
The terror happening around our world doesn’t have to be the era our nation happens to be in, and the pain we go through doesn’t have to be a stage we face because of the age we are. Treat every situation and experience as part of the “pursuit of happiness”, and allow everyone to pursue the way they need to in order to achieve that. Something I think our world likes the idea of but doesn’t celebrate to capacity is uniqueness. If we looked at uniqueness the way we look at perfection, our world would be a different place. God designed the way we look and the plan He has for our lives entirely differently and perfectly UNIQUELY. The beauty in that is that everyone will have a different journey and pursuit towards that happiness. So do not get in the way of that for anyone, and do not let anything happening in the world keep you from reaching that desired destination that God so badly wants you to reach. Since God has a very specific plan for each of us, we will not fulfill that by living through things that are not of Him. And since God wants nothing but the best for us, that is something we should all strive to reach. I feel like a “theme” of this blog and something I’m extremely repetitive on, is to focus on making the world a better place. I don’t want to sound like a chick who thinks of rainbows and stuff all the time, I’m not naive. But I really think that if we are to dedicate most of ourselves to something it should be to this. There are a lot of unnecessary and unfortunate events people go through that they should never have to experience. And it’s simply because of the pain they have been introduced to or allow themselves to feel. Keep in mind, life does not have to be perfect to be beautiful. The world we live in is what we create it to be for ourselves. It is SO important to love yourself and to love others--it’s crucial to human existence. So I guess it is okay for the “theme” of this whole thing to be to make the world a better place. After all, we are called to live having seen HIS world, which to Him, is a much better place. What kind of year is 2016 going to be for you?
“I used to think love was the greatest thing to think about, but now I know love is never satisfied just thinking about it”.
“You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world”. 1 John 4:4
HOTTY TODDY and Go Kappa.
So, second semester sophomore year has started. 2016 is here and there's a whole new year just waiting to show us all that it has in store. I've concluded something very specific and personal about 2015. It was the year I changed most as a person, but also revealed to me the reality of this life we live.
Life is hard at times, emotionally, physically and mentally. And I’ve started to really understand that all the appealing and intriguing attributes that the idea “growing up” had to offer, are not the only qualities that come with it. If anything I’ve realized mainly that growing up is an unsettling insight to the painful world we live in. On my CNN app every day I get a new notification that there’s been another shooting, another video from ISIS, another suicide bombing, another this, another that and it is one after the other constantly. It has become common to me. I’ve been asking myself a lot lately why now such awful things are happening in our world and why so often. It's not that our world is starting to fall apart all right now in 2016, it’s the fact that as we grow up we are becoming so aware and involved in the world around us. I’ve also noticed that growing up doesn’t only introduce us to the battles the world faces, but also the battles we ourselves personally face. We become introduced to so many insecurities that we never even realized were flaws, things that never even crossed our minds. We start to see our bodies and ourselves as imperfect and start to allow a whole new perspective control the way we see ourselves. The perspective of society. The world then introduces us to all the "solutions", like bullying, bulimia, anorexia, self-harm, depression, suicide etc. When we were kids we were protected and hidden from the news and from self-loathing and we lived in a world so distant from reality. Sometimes I look at children and think about innocent they are, how little of the world they know, how little they've have to deal with and just how envious I am of that simple, easy joy. With growing up comes freedom, responsibility, opportunity and enjoyment but it also brings confusion, pain and realization.
As we’re introduced to a world of violence and self loathing I think now more than ever is when it is most important to be positive. Everyone causing such damage and danger was once a child. Everyone struggling and battling once had that childlike joy and behavior, and somewhere along the way they were introduced to some kind of torture and lost themselves. I think a lot of people, including myself, get so caught up in the fact that this is just the way the world has to be, and we have to go along with it because that is the generation we happen to be in. Growing up with the pressure to be perfect and the things we have to experience should not be looked at as just a “stage that everyone goes through”. Don’t allow lies and horrible things happening around the world dictate the one life you get to live and the happiness you experience throughout it. During all the times I truly struggled I asked myself, “do I want to be this person and can I be doing these things for the rest of my life?” Look at your life and ask yourself that question. If the answer to that question saddens you, then change the direction you are going immediately. The place God puts us in right now might not always be to benefit us, but others. And if the place you are in right now saddens you, not only will it continue to affect you negatively, but also the people around you. What people are so blinded to is that the pain they battle with inwardly affects the people around them extremely.
The terror happening around our world doesn’t have to be the era our nation happens to be in, and the pain we go through doesn’t have to be a stage we face because of the age we are. Treat every situation and experience as part of the “pursuit of happiness”, and allow everyone to pursue the way they need to in order to achieve that. Something I think our world likes the idea of but doesn’t celebrate to capacity is uniqueness. If we looked at uniqueness the way we look at perfection, our world would be a different place. God designed the way we look and the plan He has for our lives entirely differently and perfectly UNIQUELY. The beauty in that is that everyone will have a different journey and pursuit towards that happiness. So do not get in the way of that for anyone, and do not let anything happening in the world keep you from reaching that desired destination that God so badly wants you to reach. Since God has a very specific plan for each of us, we will not fulfill that by living through things that are not of Him. And since God wants nothing but the best for us, that is something we should all strive to reach. I feel like a “theme” of this blog and something I’m extremely repetitive on, is to focus on making the world a better place. I don’t want to sound like a chick who thinks of rainbows and stuff all the time, I’m not naive. But I really think that if we are to dedicate most of ourselves to something it should be to this. There are a lot of unnecessary and unfortunate events people go through that they should never have to experience. And it’s simply because of the pain they have been introduced to or allow themselves to feel. Keep in mind, life does not have to be perfect to be beautiful. The world we live in is what we create it to be for ourselves. It is SO important to love yourself and to love others--it’s crucial to human existence. So I guess it is okay for the “theme” of this whole thing to be to make the world a better place. After all, we are called to live having seen HIS world, which to Him, is a much better place. What kind of year is 2016 going to be for you?
“I used to think love was the greatest thing to think about, but now I know love is never satisfied just thinking about it”.
“You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world”. 1 John 4:4
HOTTY TODDY and Go Kappa.
I love you and you need to write more, dad
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