Something New

We all look for something in life. Magazines and TV have shown us that what we need to be happy is to be pretty (which generally means no zits, big boobs, and a small waist), hook up with hot guys, and buy their advertised clothing. They show a very conformist, superficial way of being happy. I think what a person really wants in life is to be accepted. Accepted by their piers, they're family, they're co-workers. They want friends they want to never be bored they want a full life. I think that for anyone to have a full life, there can't be just good things. There has to be good and bad to balance each other out. If life were only filled with good things we would never appreciate the good things because bad things wouldn't be there to counteract the good. I think we all need to have a little bit of pain in our lives. Some get more than others no doubt and  some people get more extreme versions of pain at one period of time... but in the end, it all balances out and the people who experience no pain today while you do. Someday you're going to run into them again because anyone who walks into our lives never truly walks out forever. Then the tables will turn and you will see that pain comes no matter how "pretty" or popular you are. You can't decide how much pain you are going to get because that pain comes with how much God thinks you can take. However pain comes harder to those who deserve it more. Be a good person and pain will come to you but God will protect you and help you through it. Never worry about other people. Think of only you and how you can improve yourself today. Try smiling at a person on the street, you never know it may be the only smile they get all day. Be a good person and good things will happen to you, it may just take a little time.

"Popularity is fleeting, friendships last forever"