Don't live being afraid of what's to come. Running from your past only
brings you closer to it. My life is precious to me; I am thankful for
every day I'm allowed to live it. Appreciate what you have: Stop
complaining about what you don't have. I have a positive outlook on
life- I didn't always- and it makes each day better. There comes a
point in your life when you realize, that living with a negative
outlook just sucks; That's when you change it. And it's not a hard
decision to make, you just do it. I know I did. There are so many other
worse situations to have, for me to complain about the things that
happen to me. We all live such sheltered lives here though, that we
don't see the worsened situations. I wake up every morning: If I still
have my five senses, all limbs, a family, a car, school, and shelter..
I am thankful. I'm thankful for these every day things, which seem
minuscule at first, but are all enormous factors in my life. Life is
full of bad things, or shit, as I call it. The shit will always be
there, big or small. Shit doesn't go away, so I take the good out of
it. Take the good out of the bad. You have to, or it will consume you.
Sometimes it's hard to pull the good from the bad; Maybe you don't see
it at first. It is always there, lurking somewhere. That's when I
remember the every day 'minuscule' things that I should be thankful
for. The shit will never go away. And sometimes we don't pull the good
out. Sometimes I make bad decisions, but I can only learn from these
decisions. I'm only human. I make mistakes. This is why I'm here: If I
didn't make mistakes- if no one did- then we wouldn't be here. It's OK
to make mistakes. It doesn't make you a bad person, or a failure. If
you're still alive, then you aren't a failure. I take time, and look
around at everything in front of me. I try to appreciate what I've got,
and love it with all I can. I'm happy where I'm at, how far I've come.
If you can't be happy with yourself, then no one else can make you
happy.