I'm running to catch up again

Today was a bad day. No getting around it. Now I know that a positive attitude can help a bad day, but today there were too many things thrown at me to remember this, and thats what I blame my bad day on. I blame it on me thinking it was a bad day. It surely is not the days fault.

Anyway, whenever I have one of these days (and I consider myself fortunate because it's not that often, I somehow manage to avoid more than a few really awful days a year.) I seem to have a song traveling through the day with me. Today the song was Running. Probably because this morning (in anticipation for the day I was faced with) I decided I needed some calm acoustic tunes to get me to school. Anyway this song was in my head all day. The quote from this song that pretty much explained my day is "I'm running to catch up again." For me, as well as many others I'm sure, bad days usually come hand and hand with stress. And stress was just dancing around me today.

Days like today I feel like I don't even actually live. Just rushing by, not noticing anything or anyone. Thats my least favorite part of these days. Tomorrow is a fresh start though, thats what I love about days, we get new ones all the time. Since we typically label days good and bad, this is extra helpful, because we dont have to have a bad day for too long, we get the chance every twenty- four hours to try for a good one.

Well that was my little rant about bad days. At least they remind us to be grateful for the good ones.

Taking Guesses

"Taking guesses at the actual date and time"

One of my all time favorite quotes. As humans we are under the notion that we know everything. I myself have that fault, and during a psychology class I am taking I have realized it's only natural. In the end we always think we're right, no matter what logic tells us, we choose whatever opinion we have decided is true, we hold on to information that supports us rather than what tells us we are wrong. We're only human. We are imperfect, but we all want the same thing, happiness.

I have come to a concluesion.

Every decision a person makes, is an attempt at happiness.

Think about it and you'll find its true. The root of all choices we make is the belief that it will bring us happiness. The probem is we are looking in all the wrong places. We look to money, and power, rather than to people and nature. Every thing we do is a "guess" at what will make us happy, and when we do it by buying something or hurting another we find it doee not work out in the end. The catch is to remember what happiness is, or to have your own definition of happiness. (I actually did not mean for this to happen, but it occured to me while I was writing we just wrote definitions of happiness in a class I am in. Ironic.) Mine went something like "To love and be loved, be grateful for everything, having a good relationship with God, and being an individual." except it was probably worded better than that, but thats the basic definition of what I think it means to be happy.

Optimism goes miles. Gratitude fills us with awe, and keeps us wondering. You must love yourself before you can truely love anyone else, and you can only love yourself if you be yourself. Faith is what keeps you strong. And that is how you achieve happiness if you ask me.

Well this post kind of went in a few directions, but thats okay, I think I said what I intended to say.

"and this life is a beautiful one, and thought I've seen it come undone, I know most definately, it always works out the way it's meant to be."

Thanks for reading.