One the eve if this remarkable journey i am going to take you through what i have learned in the past 25 years (yes that's right I'm only 25). i feel like i have accomplished so much in the first two and a half decades i have been on this earth. I have experienced joy, misery, defeat, happiness, pain, heartache, and love. I have learned about critical things in my life that have made me the person that I am today. I have learned many things in Life i am going to try and elaborate on a few of them here.
1) Failure is only an option if you don't try. I used to be afraid to fail in my life but than if you don't try and take a risk than you are really a failure for not trying new things. When people would ask me what i was most afraid of i would say failure But now i realized it is just the Failure to try to take a risk.
2) Friends- some will leave some will stay. the ones that are real stick around through the good and the bad and know everything about you and still talk to you like you are "fairly" normal.
3) Love- Love is a risk that every person should make. Because if you miss out on love you will miss out on Life.
These Next three are the most critical ones that i have learned about, some of these are always going to be a work in progress but its a goal that is worth working towards that will make you feel like you can actually grasp life and get a lot out of it.
4) Fun- You can not go through life working yourself to death. That's not Fun. If you cant finish it today finish it tomorrow (Thanks Frank). Life is to short to have a dead line especially when our life is full of them. Try and do something new with a friend or a spouse, girlfriend even by yourself. Try something new once a month. It may feel forced and weird at first but you will warm up to the idea. Pretty soon you will be looking for different things to do and everything that you do will be fun.
5) PPT- (power of positive thinking)- this is my own little creation. One day I thought to myself, Self what can I do to make people's day better? Ding Ding, I thought whats a better way than to show everyone that positive energy is a good thing to have and that it really does do a better good than frowning. I go through the day and when anybody asks me how are you? I say I'm great its beautiful outside isn't it? and they get kind of taken back by that. It's a really good feeling to know that just by smiling and being positive it really makes the day go by a lot better.
6) Faith- This is the one that i am still working on ( well i guess everyone is working on this one until that point in time comes). But i have seen amazing things happen when you have faith, I have seen a lot of broken people pick them self up just be believing and getting there life back on track. I have seen people fall hard from not having any faith and thinking that they can do with out. They were wrong i was wrong before i got baptized. My life never would have turned out the way that it did if it wasn't for the day I got baptized I am still a work in progress.
I hope that the Next twenty five years of my life are as fun and fulfilling as my first twenty five were. Thanks, and always remember PPT (Power of Positive Thinking)
PS if you didn't get it My Birthday is June 15th. Thanks again.
