Everybody wants to rule the world
It must be something we get from birth
One truth is we never learn
-Joe Strummer on “Charlie Don’t Surf”
It’s been a fun week as we approach Thanksgiving but something that I believe we miss these days is to examine life and enjoy the positive of it. I hear people at work and at school sometimes complain about how their life is complicated and how much they dread speaking in front of a crowd at school. One of the things I’ve learned about life in the past couple of years is that we all have flaws and when we complain it is because we are striving to be this perfect person. Everyone makes mistakes and even I have made my share of mistakes but I examine them now and sometimes I laugh about them other times I take it and just apply it to how much I’ve grown from them. For example, two years ago on my way home from school I hit my car against a curb on Highway 85 and I messed up the car pretty bad. I felt like an idiot once I got home because it was raining pretty bad that day and I wasn’t more careful. From there, I tried to be as open and honest with my parents as I could be but of course they were pretty upset. They were glad I wasn’t hurt and my dad and myself ended up getting the car’s kinks fixed up. I learned from that I have to be more cautious when I drive and I also grew to appreciate the support I got from my parents after that as they helped me out immensely with the car itself. I don’t think people really look at life and appreciate all the good things that they may be presented with. Sure, I work in retail and go to community college but from them I’ve been given so many positive moments that they are embedded in my mind as great memories. Going to community college, I’ll always remember the amount of Philosophy classes I took and how much I learned to value how different people view life. It made me strive to be a better person morally and also view life not just from my own perspective but from a metaphysical point of view. I’ve also been able to learn about myself and take part in some fun activities with a few classmates of mine. For example, I remember last year in Psychology of Adjustment, one of older classmates, Matt, was doing a presentation on Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and I took the test and it somehow revealed that I had it. The funny part was I truly enjoyed the back and forth I did with Matt because he kept berating me about how I had it and what was causing it, what triggered it, and so forth and so forth. Things like that make life unique and special and not enough people take school seriously enough to even enjoy the fun parts of it. The important thing is to be able to form some semblance of relationships with classmates because we are all in the process of learning about ourselves. Like my professor said the other day, we are always students in life and it is difficult to escape that. In terms of working in retail, it’s no secret that I wouldn’t look at it as the best job ever, but what I’ve taken away from it is to be able to help everyday people like myself. I wouldn’t consider the people I work with as friends, but the ones that I’ve helped out along the way make me proud that I at least put in an effort to teach them something. For example, two people whom I consider two excellent workers are this girl that I trained way back when in February who wasn’t the best person to communicate with at first. Another person was this guy that I helped out when he first started and I didn’t think much of him at first but he ended up working out as a great asset. I’ve learned from watching Chris Jericho’s Breaking the Walls Down documentary that if you teach ten things to a person and they take one of those things and they implement them, you’ve done well. I think that is true because you have to let someone grow on their own and it is important to keep teaching. We have to appreciate the opportunities we are given as very often we take the negative of a situation and that becomes our focus rather than what was originally thought it was. There are times when people complain that they are tired which I do from time to time but then I think about it. I examine as to why I may be tired, if I kept myself busy at school or at work or at the gym I think back as to the positive things I accomplished at that time. I went to the gym last Thursday and I had an intense but fun workout. Of course, working out for an hour will tire you yet I thought about how good it felt to get some exercise, how good I felt mentally, things I was looking forward to, and the reactions I get when people ask me about feeling good. Always remember to be proud of who you are, not of what you could be! Till next time.
Just Another Day... 