More To Life

Sometimes life can get you down. You find it becomes nearly impossible to smile because negativity has infiltrated nearly every area of your life. But believe me, incessantly dwelling on it will only make things harder. I know it can be difficult to try to focus your mind on something else and I often wonder why it is so much easier to dwell on negative things than positive things.

If you’re like me, negativity is what you use to tap into your creativity. It seems emotive language is only available if it has negative connotations and to write something effective you need to entertain these thoughts so they can provide you with a basis for your creative piece. The completion of your piece gives you great satisfaction amidst your sorrow so you do it over and over just to get that moment of contentedness.

I do it. I bet we all do it sometimes. I know the best songs I write are sad, somber, melodramatic and often times depressing. I find it hard to write happy songs. I mean really hard. Same goes with my posts, the majority of them were created in times of uncertainty and disappointment, confusion and lack of ‘happiness’. But I surge on. I’m trying to push away those negative thoughts and I’m learning what it takes to dwell on the happy ones.

So when you say you feel: Worthless, pathetic and completely unloved.  You are so wrong. I assure you. You are worth something. You are not pathetic. You’re good at using emotive language :) and you are and always will be loved, no matter who you are or what you’ve done.

When you see this beautiful quote: “Life isn’t tied with a bow, but it’s still a gift.”   Please don’t reply like this: “Life is nothing but a boring chain of events.  One after another, the same old thing. The same things, every single day. Lonliness, sadness and disappointment”. Don’t swell on the bad stuff. Dwell on the good stuff. I know it can be hard. I think it’s silly that it takes practise to focus your mind on positive things when the negativity lingers like a pesky mosquito. But you can do it. Work at it!

You’re worth it and you can be so much more :)

Inspiration:

http://mylifethetruth.wordpress.com/2010/10/14/written-by-a-90-year-old-woman-with-my-comments/

Hiking Is Refining

While hiking this weekend, I had a thought.

Well it was actually when I got back and I could finally brush my teeth. There wasn’t a creek like last time and I wasn’t wasting valuable drinking water to brush my teeth. Well it was that and that I kind of forgot until I was already hiking. (But shhhhh)

Anyway, when I go a day without brushing my teeth they usually go really gross. They feel feral, they look feral and they just are feral. But when I got home today and looked at myself in the mirror I saw my teeth were not of the hideous shade I’d been dreading, they were actually whiter and all-round pearlier than usual.

I wondered how this could be until I recalled the types of food I’d been eating. Healthy, nutritious food. Carrot anyone? I then realised that my teeth must have been ok because unlike usual I hadn’t been loading them up with sugar. This hike, where I consumed good food meant a break for my teeth. It showed me what they could really be like if I listened to my dentist and avoided sugar.

And then I realised this is just like life aswell. When you’re out there hiking in the bush, you’re not checking your Facebook every five minutes. You’re not bothered by meaningless causes and you’re not bombarded with the media and its warped ideas of truth. You are however, out there in you’re old clothes, not concerned with the way that you look. Instead of magazine covers you are presented with God’s marvelous creation. Rather than watching movies you gaze, amazed at the spectacular scenery.

In a sense you’ve been refined. All that meaningless trash that weighs down your life has been stripped away and you can just be the you you were meant to be, rather than yet another social construct.

Can you see it? That deep down we are more? That we’re not even who we think we are, that’s just who we’re told we are?