I find that there are times in my life when I just have to sit down and laugh. Laugh at something that just happened, laugh at something I saw, but most of all, laugh at myself.
I have found over the years that life is what you make it. When situations come up, good or bad, you are in control of how you act and react to every situation. You decide how much you worry about it, laugh at it, love it, or hate it. You decide what you do because of it and what you do not do because of it. Often times I think we tend to forget that we are in control of our own choices. We tend to forget that we chose and choose the life that we live.
We also tend to forget that all of our choices are connected and lead us to our future. Each choice that we have made in the past has lead us to where we are now. What we chose to do three years ago helped decide where we are standing today. What we learned, didn't learn, what we did, and what we didn't do in our lifetime have all played a part in who we are and where we are in our lives at this moment. Likewise, what we then choose to do today will help determine who we become and where we will stand tomorrow and in the future.
We can't choose to spend our time worrying and stressed out. We can't chose to spend our time depressed about life or mad at the world. But most of all we can't choose to stop choosing. We can't decide to give up and stop making choices. For when you do this you let yourself be controlled by the world. You let yourself fall to the wayside. You let yourself become lost.
Instead, we must choose to laugh. We must choose to stop worrying about the things we can not control and start changing the things that we can. We must choose to smile and to look at the world around us and see the beauty within it. We must choose to search for the good and to be a part of the good that is in the world. We must choose to lift ourselves and others up and move forward with courage and with faith.
Don't let the world drag you down. Don't let the world get the better of you. Storms will come and things will happen that we do not like. But when you find yourself being tossed about and not knowing which way is up, know that there will be day when you look around and realize that you are standing upright on solid ground and that you are exactly where you are supposed to be. You will realize that all of that tossing and turning landing you where you need to be and where you dared dreamed could happen. You will find that it has made you happy.
So remember to laugh and remember to smile and one day you too will realize that life is funny.
