It's amazing how boring life can seem when one is Pessimistic, or not enthusiastic about life. How sleep can affect our mood or opinions, How easily we can judge another even in the smallest ways possible, even ourselves at times.. How fast a person can be hurt, How easily it is to forget or be blinded from the things that really matter. How one moment someone can be so strong and the next so weak. How change creates a reaction in all of us..
How stress can be lethal if you let it.
How much you can learn in such a short amount of time.
Life is Hard. I used to think life would be easy and fun if it weren't for all the drama people bring into it. But thats what life is, its drama, its trials, its motivation, pushing yourself. working harder. Lately i've come to terms that life isn't going to be any easier as I go through it, but i've been finding a way to make it Clearer. Emotions, actions, thoughts, our whole existence is so big, I don't think i'll even be able to comprehend it all. I'd like to, but it's impossible.. So is perfection in this life.
I've learned, i'm still learning, to be okay not being perfect, being okay with the fact that i've made mistakes and that i'll make more.. and being okay with always working to better the things i'm weak with, and trying harder.. I guess that's what needs to happen.. everything that happens to us in life, is for our good, If we allow it to be. It depends on how we handle the situations around us. How we react.. I've learned it's okay to Cry when you need to Cry.. Hurt when you need to Hurt, Run when you need to Run and Live to try more Vividly when you don't think you can.. Life is one big ball of pain. It's finding the beauty and the joy within that that is difficult. Granted a lot of it has to do with our attitude towards life, But putting aside our own feelings, and thinking about what we're here for.. putting away all the self pity and selfishness that we absorb, and thrive off of at times even if we don't admit it even to ourselves. We're here to look past the pain. and push forward with inner strength, to see others with love, love them even with their faults, look past their faults, and leave them blameless. I'm learning how to do this.. it's hard.. I've realized there is so much good in people.. granted they can have issues and a lot of things that irritate, and have made a lot of mistakes but, looking aside from that, no, looking past that, and accepting that, Loving that person or those people, is so important. Love is a Powerful thing, for ourselves and for others. It eases the pain of this life.. the pain that we've had and still see going on.. The hurt we've had.. it takes real inner strength to love a person even after being hurt. I admire those who can and do. Love is worrying for another's peace of mind, Love is looking at another through the Savior's eyes. Regardless of who they are. Looking past the weaknesses, and past mistakes, past the things they have done to us or another. Looking past the irritating things that person, or people can do. And just flat out admiring them for the good they do have. And the light that they HAVE acquired. Love isn't looking on the outside.. at all. It's been said over and over, that beauty is on the inside.. and all those other cheesy statements. But in order to Feel Real Peace in this life, and to feel Real love for our God and Others to accept ourselves and forget our pain and our hurt, to have a pure heart, and pure intentions and desire for the well being of others, the people we love, .. is to see others for who they really are, really we're, not in the past, but in the life before, to see them as pure and clean.. and to admire their potential for who they really Can be and to admire the things and trials they have conquered in this life..Doing this is the opposite of judging. even in the smallest case. Look past the weaknesses, (don't forget them, chose those you surround yourself with wisely, but don't let remembering them (the weaknesses) turn your heart to anything other than Honest Kindness.) But Looking past all that. IS love. and Creates a peacefulness around us, in our hearts, in our homes, in our relationships, and undoubtedly creates peace, and desire for good in another.
It's so easy to get irritated and frustrated and to jump up to attack at the first open window, to lash back at those who have hurt us even in the most minor case. to think so easily anything judgemental even in the most minor case about another...
if we could only change that, How peaceful could our lives be?...
This change doesn't happen in a second, in an hour, in one day, a week, its a process, of the changing of our repetition of thoughts, and it takes focus and concentrating on a persons strengths, or focusing on the Love or Light that IS in them, that they have been given as we have been given, focus on the mercy that we've been given, the mercy they are given as well. Who are we to be higher than another? who are we to hate another?.. who are we to assume the bad and Doubt the good of another or their intentions?..
When that final day comes, we will want to be judged fairly, mercifully, kindly.. who are we not to show that to another?
The statement do to others as you would have done unto you can't be any truer.
Think of others as you would have them think unto you,
assume of others as you would have them assume of you,
treat others as you would have them do to you,
confront others as you would like to be confronted.. ..
pick a word.
There are a lot of people in life who don't even want to do this at all.. but it is necissary in order to feel relaxed, peaceful, and joyful in this life, it is Necissary if we want to constant companionship of the spirit.. is is neccissary to forgive another if we want or need forgiveness... It is necissary to do this in order to be able to look at our Savior with an honest Love and an honest Gratitude.
It's never going to go perfectly. but with humility in our hearts, not just towards Heavenly Father, but towards all man, we can look past the imperfections of this and just keep trying and working at it. Not letting ourselves hold ourselves back. Not letting the sorrow of our weaknesses or sorrow of our Past sins hold us back, Not letting the judgements of others of us hold us back. But to be constantly diligent in becoming better.. becoming who we are meant to be, who we were meant to be since before we can remember in this life. And to fulfill our requirements and learn the lessons we need to learn Today, and in the years to come.
It's amazing how one little thing can change a whole perspective.
and its amazing how one little action or reaction can have effect on the feeling or joy of another.
I want to make that effect a one that will create something better, and not make it worse than it had been in the first place... to heal and not weaken..
anyway this was a long blog but oh well.. just thought I would share something entirely more important.
Love,
Elisabeth
