So many people complain that their lives are boring, and nothing interesting ever happens to them. We are entirely in control of how interesting our lives are, how much fun we have, and how happy we are. I’m writing this blog because since September, I have been really happy (and I haven’t had any periods of depression anymore), and my life has been so much fun. This is because I made it so. I feel so great. I enjoy life so much! And I want to share that with everyone. So I am making a list of things you can do to be happy, have fun, and have an interesting life.
Firstly, to be successful in achieving extreme happiness and fun, you have to forget about what other people will think. Don’t worry about what a stranger will think of you, you’ll never see this person again! This list is going to make you look silly; people ARE going to think you’re weird. Don’t let yourself care about that. Secondly, you need to learn to laugh at yourself. When you trip and fall, or make a silly mistake, LAUGH! Don’t get down on yourself. Learn to find silly mistakes funny. And thirdly, you need to forget about age taboos. The only thing anyone is too old for is diapers and sucking their thumb. The rest is open to do. So here is the list:
1. Ride your grocery cart back to your car.
2. Run around in the rain.
3. Go barefoot.
4. Sit on a bench with a friend, point up and whisper to eachother. See how many people look where you’re pointing.
5. Go swimming. I’m not talking about doing laps. Splash, surface dive, do flips off of the diving board. (Because no matter how you land, you hit the water and don’t get hurt)
6. Jump on a trampoline. Not a mini trampoline, a real one.
7. Have a water fight.
8. Play tag.
9. Wrestle.
10. Be spontaneous.
11. Blast music and sing along at the top of your lungs.
12. Play on an exercise ball. Don’t work out. PLAY. Try to balance on it and stuff. You can even pretend to be a cat on its back with a ball of yarn.
13. Write a weird story. It doesn’t even have to make sense.
14. Skip instead of walking.
15. DANCE!
16. Have a distance contest with paper airplanes.
17. Invent something that is totally useless.
18. Write a song.
19. Buy a craft kit and make it.
20. Ride a wagon down a hill.
21. Make a weird movie.
22. Build a snowman.
23. Play in the leaves.
24. Go sight-seeing.
25. Invent a new food recipe.
26. Go on a swing and swing as high as you can. Have a contest on who can jump off the farthest.
27. Style your hair or dress up like you would never dare to do. Try a mohawk.
28. Try something new every week.
29. Have a family game night. No excuses, skipping, or postponing allowed.
30. Set up a chain reaction contraption.
Hope you guys have fun with this!
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Monday, June 8, 2009
JUST JUMP!
What is life without some excitement? What is life without some risk? Without those, life would be boring, life would be stuck in one place. MANKIND would be stuck in one place. If no one ever took a chance, where would we be?
Life is full of mountains and canyons. We have to climb the mountains and jump the canyons if we expect to get anywhere. How can one feel the satisfaction of accomplishment if they remain at the bottom of the mountain, or give up halfway? How can anyone expect to fly or jump a gap if they don’t try it out?
We need to learn how to jump! We need to take chances! There are no bridges in life. You have to jump over a gap if you expect to cross it. If you wait too long, maybe for the gap to close, the gap will only lengthen or maybe sprout a barrier. Your chance will be gone, and if it is not gone, it will be further away. JUMP! Maybe you might sprout wings and fly, maybe you might land in a lake and take a nice swim, maybe you might jump the gap, maybe you might fall and crash. But if you fall, it won’t kill you. You get up, heal, and move on to your next mountain or canyon.
We can never know what will happen when we try to jump. This fact should be encouraging, not discouraging. WE DON’T KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN so we definitely don’t KNOW that we will fail. That should be some good motivation.
But if we never jump or climb, we never get anywhere, we never achieve anything, we never overcome anything.
Life is full of mountains and canyons. We have to climb the mountains and jump the canyons if we expect to get anywhere. How can one feel the satisfaction of accomplishment if they remain at the bottom of the mountain, or give up halfway? How can anyone expect to fly or jump a gap if they don’t try it out?
We need to learn how to jump! We need to take chances! There are no bridges in life. You have to jump over a gap if you expect to cross it. If you wait too long, maybe for the gap to close, the gap will only lengthen or maybe sprout a barrier. Your chance will be gone, and if it is not gone, it will be further away. JUMP! Maybe you might sprout wings and fly, maybe you might land in a lake and take a nice swim, maybe you might jump the gap, maybe you might fall and crash. But if you fall, it won’t kill you. You get up, heal, and move on to your next mountain or canyon.
We can never know what will happen when we try to jump. This fact should be encouraging, not discouraging. WE DON’T KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN so we definitely don’t KNOW that we will fail. That should be some good motivation.
But if we never jump or climb, we never get anywhere, we never achieve anything, we never overcome anything.
Monday, June 1, 2009
Broken to Pieces
It really sucks when one person has to ruin a good thing. It sucks when a person is so set on revenge that it ruins the relationships between everyone here. I hate this so much.
Whenever she isn’t here, we are all friends, we hang out in one big group. But when she comes to school, we are all grouchy at eachother. We are all holding grudges, and we all hang out in smaller groups. This is driving us all crazy. She ruins everything for everyone. People are grouching at me and getting short with me now because of her. What have I done?
She puts on such a fake act. She walks around smiling and laughing, meanwhile she is plotting and conniving. She blames my friend for her loss, and is out for revenge. Everything she thinks about and does is making my friend miserable. Its making EVERYONE miserable.
What came to her was her own fault. Her cheating led to her loss. My friend gave something back to her, so she could have a second chance. And she ruined that chance. Even though that something came back to my friend, that doesn’t mean it was my friend’s fault.
I can’t stay here anymore, today. She is here; and now everyone is grouchy and avoiding others. We are in small groups again. Each group has a grudge, and I don’t know who to hang out with. I’m tired of this.
This is not the first time this has happened. A few years ago, she did the same thing, but to a different group, and for different reasons. That time, her goal wasn’t revenge, her goal was isolation. She wanted another friend of mine all to herself. So she told lies about everyone, including me, to that girl. Now, instead of turning one person against everyone, she is turning everyone against one person. What people believe of my new friend is only true about her. What she has fooled everyone to think are things that are only true about herself, not my friend. Everywhere she goes, people break up. Friends begin to quarrel. Groups divide. No one can blame it on her, she is good at it. She can create any effect she wants, indirectly, so we cannot validly put it against her. We cannot go to the principal, because she is sneaky. She breaks the rules and doesn’t get caught. She indirectly influences people and events. She sucks up to the teachers and does jobs for them, so that they suspect nothing. And when she is caught, she is given a slap on the wrist. If one of us got caught doing the same thing, we would be expelled.
This really sucks.
Whenever she isn’t here, we are all friends, we hang out in one big group. But when she comes to school, we are all grouchy at eachother. We are all holding grudges, and we all hang out in smaller groups. This is driving us all crazy. She ruins everything for everyone. People are grouching at me and getting short with me now because of her. What have I done?
She puts on such a fake act. She walks around smiling and laughing, meanwhile she is plotting and conniving. She blames my friend for her loss, and is out for revenge. Everything she thinks about and does is making my friend miserable. Its making EVERYONE miserable.
What came to her was her own fault. Her cheating led to her loss. My friend gave something back to her, so she could have a second chance. And she ruined that chance. Even though that something came back to my friend, that doesn’t mean it was my friend’s fault.
I can’t stay here anymore, today. She is here; and now everyone is grouchy and avoiding others. We are in small groups again. Each group has a grudge, and I don’t know who to hang out with. I’m tired of this.
This is not the first time this has happened. A few years ago, she did the same thing, but to a different group, and for different reasons. That time, her goal wasn’t revenge, her goal was isolation. She wanted another friend of mine all to herself. So she told lies about everyone, including me, to that girl. Now, instead of turning one person against everyone, she is turning everyone against one person. What people believe of my new friend is only true about her. What she has fooled everyone to think are things that are only true about herself, not my friend. Everywhere she goes, people break up. Friends begin to quarrel. Groups divide. No one can blame it on her, she is good at it. She can create any effect she wants, indirectly, so we cannot validly put it against her. We cannot go to the principal, because she is sneaky. She breaks the rules and doesn’t get caught. She indirectly influences people and events. She sucks up to the teachers and does jobs for them, so that they suspect nothing. And when she is caught, she is given a slap on the wrist. If one of us got caught doing the same thing, we would be expelled.
This really sucks.
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