Finding the YOU in YOU

I can't stress this enough. People are so worried about being like everyone else and that's just PATHETIC! We were created different for a reason. We all have different things we each bring to the table. What my strengths are might not be yours and what your strengths are might not be mine. We all are made different and we're all good at different things because we can't do everything perfectly. God gave us weaknesses so we may be humble. We go to Operas to hear the amazing talent that God has given to someone else, we go to restaurants to savor the flavor that the chefs are able to put onto a perfectly decorated plate because we may not be able to do it so divinely as they can. God did this for a reason. We can't go through this life by ourselves and watching each other succeed in different areas of life is part of that unity that was planned out from the beginning with such care and such sacredness that we can't even begin to comprehend as to why.

As I mentioned above about the chef life is much like that "perfectly decorated plate". The plate is the foundation on which the food is set but also, it's the first thing you see. You expect the waiter to bring a fresh, clean, right out of the washer plate. No blemishes, no spots or stains. The next thing your eyes happen upon is the food. Not only does it have to be the right size, shape or color it also has to smell DIVINE! After staring at the food for a few decadent moments you pick up the utensil with such care and such thought and you scoop a perfectly sized bite and put it into your mouth with an expectation for perfection because after all, the man who made it is supposed to be the master of the restaurant. Each bite is an opportunity for the chef to make it or break it in your eyes. However, it's not just the first bite that you criticize, it's the second, third, fourth and last. It's not just the first taste bud that has to be awakened it has to be a  party fiesta of flavor, each taste bud moving in unison. Starting off with the smooth waltz to begin and easing into the real flavor of a sexy salsa, and ending in a BOOM with a tango. Each bite living up to that expectation. That HIGH expectation. For if even one bite is off the slightest bit the meal is done. Our plate is Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. Our plate has no blemishes. The only spots are the ones on the hands and feet and sides of our Savior. The food is the gospel and our friends and our family and the stranger we pass walking down the side of the road on the way to school. We have expectations of people, we set the bar HIGH not because that's what we expect of them but because it's what we expect them to expect of us and it's what we would do for them so after all, they should be able to do it for us.

If we can't find that smooth waltz, the sexy salsa and the BOOM in the tango in other people how on earth do we expect to find it in us!?

Masks are meant for Halloween and Halloween is not everyday. No where close dude. What you are on the inside-whether confident, shy, outgoing, spunky, self-preserved etc-radiates out. What you put into things is what you get out of it. So put EVERYTHING into it and you'll get EVERYTHING out of it. Be the YOU, YOU know YOU can be! Not the you people want you to be. People don't have to live with you 24/7, they don't watch your every move, feel the same emotions you do, they don't find the same things funny, or the same things sad as you so why should they be able to decide what you do, to decide what you find funny or sad, why should they be able to decide your clothing, or the emotion you wear on your face? That's right! They shouldn't! So throw that mask away and I don't EVER want to see it on you again.

God is a perfect being. He made the earth and everything on it, including us. In fact, He made us in His image. When we look down on ourselves, when we criticize ourselves or do any of those to other people we do the same to Him. Think about that the next time you look into the eyes of someone else or stare at yourself in the mirror.

"It's society that's ugly, not you." -Marilyn Monroe

So stop worrying about what other people think because the only person you HAVE to please is you and Heavenly Father and trust me, it's hard to disappoint your Heavenly Father. He's there when you need him and even when you don't. He wants to help you and he wants to see you succeed in whatever it is your heart desires. Everything you do should be drawing you closer to Him and putting yourself down or seeing yourself as anything less than royalty isn't bringing you closer to Him. Pray about it. Read your scriptures. You're not alone. Trust me, you're never alone. No matter what you think. 

 
Do you. No one else can. Be happy. Anyone can be sad.

 One of a Kind

 Author Unknown 

My hair is blonde, yours is too,
My eyes are brown and yours are blue.
We are the same in many a way,
Different in others, I hear them say.
But that's ok because you'll find
God made me to be 'one of a kind'.
Nobody laughs just like me,
Can ski down a mountain on their knee.
No one feels things the way I do,
Or will be a friend that is quite so true.
But that's ok because you'll find
God made me to be 'one of a kind'.
There are billions of stars up there in the sky,
None twinkle alike, they don't even try.
There are thousands of girls, some good, some in trouble,
We may look the same, but you'll find no double.
But that's ok because you'll find
God made me to be 'one of a kind'.

Be Yourself
Anonymous

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Ever since I was a little kid, I didn't want to be me.
I wanted to be Angie Bray and Angie Bray didn't
even like me.  I walked like she walked; I talked like she talked;
and I signed up for the same high school as she signed up for.

Which was when Angie changed.  She began to hang around
Stephanie Bates.  She walked like Stephanie Bates, she talked
like Stephanie.  She mixed me up!  I began to walk like Angie
Bray walking and talking like Stephanie Bates.

And then it dawned on me that Stephanie Bates walked
and talked like Marissa Murdock.  Marissa Murdock walked
and talked like Alyssa Peterson.

So here I am walking and talking like Angie Bray's imitation of
Stephanie Bates version of Marissa Murdock trying to
walk and talk like Alyssa Peterson.  And who do you think
Alyssa Peterson is always walking and talking like?  Of all people,
Megan Williams.  Megan Williams is the little pest
who walks and talks like me!!

 

If God should care enough to make
each and every little snowflake,
then how precious in His sight,
is one child living in His light!

Attitude is Key!

Soooooooooooooooooo near the end of the school year last month I was always looking at the negative. I spend so much time on homework, I don't get to hang out with friends as much as I'd like, my classes are too hard and boring, I have no friends etc. I got really tired of it. So, me being a lover of quotes really applied the qoute:

 "Whether you think you can or can't; you're right."

into my life. I realized that just because SOMEONE else says I can't do something, just because SOMEONE else may not be able to, just because SOMEONE else may have a negative outlook on life doesn't mean I have to too. I am the one who decides my attitude and 

"They can't pull the trigger if you don't hand them the gun."

You'll be able to go further, reach new levels of awesome you never saw existed!! Your attitude affects others as well whether you like it or not. Don't you realize that when you're happy so are your friends, and when your friends are sad so are you?! The key, though, is not letting THEM affect YOU in a NEGATIVE way. NEGATIVE way! Let them influence to do good. This song from Wicked should be what you're feeling in a friendship:

SO. SUPER. DUPER. TRUE though. 

So don't worry, be happy. 

"If God brings you to it, He'll bring you through it." 

You have to show Him that you trust Him and the number 1 way to show that is going through your problems with a SMILE!!!  :)

USE YOUR ATTITUDE TO AFFECT OTHERS AND MAKE AN IMPACT ON THE WORLD AROUND YOU FOR GOOD!! 

  

The life you have now is going to be sooo different in 5, 10, 20 years. However, whether that change is for the better or for worse is up to you and your attitude and the first step in believing is thinking it so!

So buck up young man! Take the sails and move your ship! "A ship is safe in a harbor but that's not what it was made for." 

OH! and this video has nothing to do with I talked about above ^ but I like it so you should too:)