Acceptance.

You know what makes life suck? Expectation. Not like expecting simple things, like to come home for instance,but unreasonable expectation. We as human beings expect to be as the media tells us to be. From birth we are bred to be the best of the best. We crave being the perfect human being. A Victoria's Secret looking bodied, Albert Einstein brained, Mozart piano playing person. Truth is, this is unattainable. So when we aren't these things, we become unhappy. We think that we will be happier if we were just a little skinnier, or richer, or more successful, or smarter or more admired. Even that we aren't loved enough or that we aren't loved in the way we're supposed to be. This ultimately leads to our demise as a happy person. We forget to live in the moment. We constantly postpone really living all just over the notion of what life should be like, rather than what life is actually  like.   Why do we continuously INSIST that our lives should be a certain way? Why don't you value them the way they are now? Stop living for the unattainable. Instead live for the now, the today, the moments we will never get back. 

New Year.

As cliche as it sounds,I love the New Year. It feels like an infinite amount of opportunity waits for you in the coming months. It is with the first day of the new year that one feels refreshed. It's almost an invincible feeling,really. Truthfully, we don't know what the new year will bring. That's part of the mystery of it all. For some, they might get married. But for others, the year might end in divorce. Some may graduate, while others drop out of school. Some families may expand, while others experience loss. That's the beautiful part of the new year. The unknown. Think about how tragic life would be without the unknown. How dreadful would it be every day to wake up knowing what was going to happen? Think about that for a second. Can you imagine waking up knowing it was your last day on earth? Or the opposite end of the spectrum, can you imagine waking up knowing you were going to be proposed to? It is the unknown that makes the new year so magical. It is the unknown that makes each fresh start beautiful. It is the unknown that makes life so special.