a joyous reflection on my life

I think I too often get stuck in a rut of seeing my life through the eyes of people around me. And don’t we all, but it’s so important to look at the things that are going well in our lives before we go absolutely crazy!

For me it’s all about what I could be doing and am not, but I’m still doing so much. There’s a light in me that wants to do so many things and feels a bit stuck, but it’s for good reason. For example, I just moved into a new apartment. I have a new job that’s a bit more reliable than the restaurant industry. I have a cat now (ted ♥️). Life is just so cool man. The point is to enjoy it.

That’s something I think everyone needs a little bit of work on; we have a lot of expectations and it ruins the good moments. We make life a lot more serious than it needs to be. That’s not to say that there’s not important things to do, but a lot of the things we take seriously really just don’t matter. Who cares what lunch you’re bringing into work tomorrow? Who cares what new car you just bought? Who cares if you don’t have the ‘perfect smile’? We’re all just people doing our best.

Of course, a few things do matter. Be a good person. Be honest. Be kind. Be hopeful and helpful and full of laughter. That’s certainly something I don’t do enough. I’ve been kind of lonesome and would love to feel the pure joy of laughter coming from inside me soon, but I think we feel that when we’re grateful for the small things and not crazy reliant on grand gestures and overthinking things [easier said than done of course].

Cliché, but life is way way way too short to be making ourselves as miserable as we do. There’s so many problems in the world and we should work to fix them, but man we can’t take on that and being miserable about the things we can control too. I know I can’t, I’m only human.