I really want to write a positive blog. I've been so negative lately, and I really don't like being negative, and I know other people don't like hearing negative things. I feel a lot happier now, though, so I want to write a really positive, inspiring, and uplifting message, just in case someone actually reads this someday. My message is a message of happiness.
If there's one thing I've learned in my life, it's this: If you do what is right, you will be happy, and if you don't do what is right, you won't be happy. It's really simple, but it actually took me several years of maturing for this principle to really sink in. It is the key to happiness, and it is the key to life. After all, "Adam fell that men might be, and men are that they might have joy." That is our goal as human beings--to receive eternal happiness.
How can you know what is right and what is wrong? Well, every person is born with the Light of Christ, which gives us the ability to know good from evil. When you do something that is good, you know it and you feel it. Likewise, when you do something that is not good, you know it and you feel it. If you find yourself rationalizing, making up reasons why something is good, and trying to convince yourself that something is right, then it probably is not right. Don't go against your natural instinct. You knew that it was wrong in the first place, so don't try to force yourself to change your mind. You'll be happier that way, I promise.
People always try to find happiness in the wrong places. They think that money will bring them happiness, or losing weight, or that new car, or that new house, or that new job, or whatever. These things will not bring happiness, though. The trouble is, when people do receive these things or accomplish these goals, if they are still unhappy, instead of realizing that these things might not bring happiness after all, they think that they must not have enough money or they mustn't have lost enough weight or whatever. People need to realize that happiness comes from praying. Happiness comes from studying the scriptures. Happiness comes from church attendance. Happiness comes from serving others. Happiness comes from being kind to our fellow brothers and sisters in this world. Happiness comes from living like Christ. I know that these things are true, because I have tested them myself and I know how these things make me feel. Yes, I still get sad sometimes. I still cry. I still get hurt, but overall, I know who I am. I know my purpose in life and I know that I am fulfilling that purpose the best I can, and I know I am happy.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Friday, March 6, 2009
Men and their Evil Ways
I know my past couple blogs have been angry anti-man rants, and I really like to be a positive and optimistic person, and I don't like to make gender-based stereotypes, but I think I have good reason for these things that I have said and am about to say.
Lately, I have tried going to a few different chat rooms on the Internet. I just really want to have an intelligent conversation with somebody, but every time I would get guys with horrible, derogatory user names messaging me, and they all started with the same first two questions: What do you look like? and What is your cup size? Isn't that horrible?! Even when I went to religious chat rooms with very strict rules, I still got guys asking me what I was wearing and if I sleep naked! And these are not the worst things, but I saw all sorts of horrible things scrolling up my computer screen--things that a good innocent girl like me never wants to hear! I can say now that I never intend on visiting a chat room again. The people in chat rooms are monsters! They are animals! I think chat rooms bring out the worst in people. The scary thing is, maybe in real life these people seem like very decent people, but when they go home on their computers, the Mr. Hydes come out. You never can know what a person is really like. Even the seemingly very best people have a dark side. You never can know all of the billions of thoughts buzzing in a person's mind. You can know someone one minute, and the next they have let their dark thoughts control their outward actions. That is one reason why I am so afraid to get married. How can you know someone well enough to commit to eternity with them? I am so amazed at the people who get engaged in two weeks and marry each other the next month. How can they know each other that well? How does a girl know her husband isn't running a pornographic web site and telling her lies? How does she know he isn't thinking more and more about the woman in his office, so much so that he imagines himself with her, and then eventually finds himself at her apartment? How does a girl know that her husband won't stab her one night and hide her body in a forest, only to keep his secrets from her? I can tell from people I know and from actual events, that men are much more likely to cheat than women. Why is that? The man chooses the wife--shouldn't he be happy with her? Then why does he want more? I'll tell you why. It's because men care about what you look like and your cup size, and when he doesn't like what he sees anymore, he finds someone else.
Lately, I have tried going to a few different chat rooms on the Internet. I just really want to have an intelligent conversation with somebody, but every time I would get guys with horrible, derogatory user names messaging me, and they all started with the same first two questions: What do you look like? and What is your cup size? Isn't that horrible?! Even when I went to religious chat rooms with very strict rules, I still got guys asking me what I was wearing and if I sleep naked! And these are not the worst things, but I saw all sorts of horrible things scrolling up my computer screen--things that a good innocent girl like me never wants to hear! I can say now that I never intend on visiting a chat room again. The people in chat rooms are monsters! They are animals! I think chat rooms bring out the worst in people. The scary thing is, maybe in real life these people seem like very decent people, but when they go home on their computers, the Mr. Hydes come out. You never can know what a person is really like. Even the seemingly very best people have a dark side. You never can know all of the billions of thoughts buzzing in a person's mind. You can know someone one minute, and the next they have let their dark thoughts control their outward actions. That is one reason why I am so afraid to get married. How can you know someone well enough to commit to eternity with them? I am so amazed at the people who get engaged in two weeks and marry each other the next month. How can they know each other that well? How does a girl know her husband isn't running a pornographic web site and telling her lies? How does she know he isn't thinking more and more about the woman in his office, so much so that he imagines himself with her, and then eventually finds himself at her apartment? How does a girl know that her husband won't stab her one night and hide her body in a forest, only to keep his secrets from her? I can tell from people I know and from actual events, that men are much more likely to cheat than women. Why is that? The man chooses the wife--shouldn't he be happy with her? Then why does he want more? I'll tell you why. It's because men care about what you look like and your cup size, and when he doesn't like what he sees anymore, he finds someone else.
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