A Good Day to Remember the Little Things

We Never know what life has in store for us. Today I was listening to the song by Five for Fighting, "100 years" A part of the song got me thinking it says, "Time to buy and time to choose.. there's never a wish better than this, when you only got a hundred years to live." With only 100 years to live, each day is so important. We have so many choices to makes. How we will start the day, live the day and end the day. There are so many things in life that shape who we are. The saying, "I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it." Can change our perspective. The power of thought, The quality of thinking determines the quality of life. We have to train our minds to see the good in everything, “even if some days we have to look a little harder.” ... “No matter our circumstances, challenges or trials, there is something in each day to embrace and cherish... that can bring gratitude and joy if only we will see and appreciate it.” Every day may not be good, but there is something good in every day. Time is a precious commodity and must not be taken for granted... A smile, a kind word, looking up at the night sky, thunderstorms, a butterfly...There are so many small wonderful things in this world to be enjoyed. The choice of happiness is ours alone to make. When we choose to make fun of, belittle, steal, abuse, be crude or crass, focus on everything that we believe to be wrong in the world or in our own life and being negative...that is the time we let happiness slip through our grasp. I remember growing up and my Aunt and Uncle and cousins always made fun of others, they put them down in the form of crude and crass jokes. They would call others names, make false pictures degrading someone, and outright telling lies about others. Searching for false happiness will never amount to much. Which is why my aunt, uncle, and cousins have never amounted to much, they've had to steal from others in order to fulfill their needs, their pleasure will lead to misery and in the end and they will be remembered as such, a miserable unhappy people who didn't contribute much to society. So long as they continue to down the path they are on, they will continue to dig a hole for themselves. To say 'I wish they would soften their hearts to end this feud" is futile, I mean, look at what happened to two of their family members who wanted to make amends, to move on, to change... I have to remember the positive good things and not let their nastiness bring me down. I was reading in an article and it stated, when we look outside of ourselves and remember the little things having good thoughts, it begins to show in our countenance. Being beautiful has nothing to do with looks, it has everything with how we make others feel. For when we have good thoughts, they start to shine on our faces like sunbeams and we will always look lovely... Today we can make a change, Today is "a time to buy and a time to choose" what it is we want for our life. To be grateful for the little things, family, friends, nature, animals, technology etc. In a time where there is so many negative expectations to bring us down, we can choose to see the beauty and lift others up. This is what my family has chosen to do even though toxic narcissistic family members try to bully us into fear, bully us into not living life to the fullest, in getting caught up in their web of lies, in getting caught up in their games. They would like us to enable them, to keep a "feud" going on because they have nothing else...but we will not. We choose to live life and that is true happiness. We do not let the negative, narcissistic sick toxic people be clouds on our sunshine, I know they want to see me destroyed, (I have always said, and I will always stand by, My family has never wanted to destroy their family. They want to destroy mine...but in the process, they have already destroyed theirs by their own words and deeds... They cannot, however many times they hit, however many times they try to silence, however many times they always prove to be the villain, destroy my family, for our weapon is love and normalcy, things that my uncle will never understand. For if they truly were good people, they wouldn't want us to be quiet, they wouldn't want to "hit us" they wouldn't people to "forget" about the past. I remember the little moments. They aren't so little and will lead to a life of our choosing. Life is about what we think of in the quiet moments. Today is a good day to Remember the Little Things.