Sunday, December 2, 2012

Forget About YOU

Feeling not-so-happy about life lately?? Try forgetting about YOU and YOUR everyday problems. Learn to love, and learn to put others before yourself. Serve the people around you, and be there to comfort THEM in THEIR time of need.

Its amazing how quickly things will turn around for you, and how much happier things will get.


There are moments in my life where I really just need to listen to my own advice. Right now is definitely one of those times.

I think lately I've just been so caught up in myself that I've completely lost focus of what's truly important in my life. I am always busy . . . like aaall the time. And . . . okay honestly? I love it. I love not being bored and almost always having something to do, but the down side to that is you start to get in this routine and you have the tendency to only think about yourself and what you have to get done next or where you have to go next or what you're gonna eat next (definitely think about this last one way too much). And next thing you know, you're cruising in life, forgetting about all these people around you and the problems they might be dealing with.

I feel like I've become a little bit too self-centered lately. And even though its hard to admit it, I feel like the best way to help you out if you're struggling with the same thing is to let you know that you're not the only one. I'm definitely not perfect and here's exhibit A for showing you how imperfect I am.

Because I've been so caught up with my busy life, and the problems I'm dealing with, I realized that I haven't been my normal ,happy self. Infact, I've been the complete opposite. I've been beating myself up at basketball, I've found myself being angry at everything and anything for lame reasons, I've been making some semi-stupid decisions, and I probably haven't been the best example to those around me. All-in-all, I don't feel like I'm living up to my potential and I feel like I could be doing so much better.

Just last week I came home after a very frustrating day. Nothing seemed to be going right, and I was choosing to act up and allow the situations affect my attitude. This was the first time I realized that I've been feeling this way for quite some time, and I knew there was something I needed to do to change the way I was feeling. The problem was I just didn't know what it was that I needed to do . . .

So I got down on my knees and asked Heavenly Father to help me understand why I am here and what I am supposed to be doing here; to help me figure out what I was doing wrong or rather what I needed to do more that was right. After this deep, sincere, and very personal prayer, I opened up my scriptures; not really knowing what to expect.

As I was reading the spirit hit me so strong. I remembered what a good friend had told me years ago and immediately knew what it was that I needed to do . . . I needed to completely FORGET about MYSELF and go out and heed to the needs of others. Love them. Serve them. Be there for them. I needed to forget about all the bad things going on in my life and focus on ways I could make good things go on in others lives.

"When ye are in the service of your fellow beings, ye are only in the service of your God."

And the promise for us is that all our problems will seem to just go away or get better. I'll do good, feel good, be good.