Changing the Masses

It seems to be turning to fall rather quickly here in Colorado. Last weekend it was in the 90s, and now it's clouded over and about 60 degrees outside. As much as I know I will miss the summer weather, I welcome the change. I have always loved the changing of the seasons, the ongoing change in the earth. The seasons never really stop changing; mother nature is always in a constant state of change. There's something inherently beautiful about that fact, that one day is never the same as the next or the previous. How could you look at the world around you and not see the joy and beauty that goes along with it every day? God gave us domain over this amazing world, in exchange for us living up to our responsibility that comes with that domain. However, it seems that we have not lived up to that responsibility. There are many individuals who care about the world around them, who make an honest effort to ensure they carry out that responsibility, but our society seems to have grown cold about the world. As a general mass we don't care about our responsibility to the world, and that makes me so sad. God gave us this world with the intent and expectation that we would tend to it as he tends to us. He entrusted us with the world he created, trusted us to take care of it and treat it as he treats us; with great love, understanding, and fairness. As time has continued so has it become more and more apparent that perhaps his trust was misplaced. This seems to be the biggest example of absolute power corrupting absolutely. We have absolute power over our world, but we aren't using that power in all the ways we should. Yes, it is here for us to thrive off of and use, however in exchange we are supposed to give back by taking care of it. There have been some signs that maybe our society is turning around in this, with the global warming campaign that has been going on since the 70s, but even that has not been taken very seriously until recent years. The only thing that gives me faith in our ability to use this planet as we are supposed to is the fact that I see individuals around me making that effort. If enough individuals care, then eventually the society will care, since that is all a society is: a mass of individuals. Even though what I see in our current society disappoints me, knowing people like Sohneya or my loved ones, people who want to make a difference gives me that faith. Those people prove to me that humanity is still worthy of that responsibility. If more people see the beauty in the constant changing of the earth, more people would feel the need to step up. We'll get there, it's simply going to take time.

Moments in Time

Wow, it's been a long time since I last wrote. I apologize for that; I never meant to stop blogging, life just got hectic and, as I'm sure most of you know, when that happens it becomes hard to keep up with everything. So much has happened in the past few months, I feel like I would have to write a book to tell of everything. The biggest change in my life is that I am now living in Colorado. It's lovely here, an amazing blend of the city and mountains. I took a job here, and as a result this has been a good learning experience, as well as a thrill. Sohneya and I are still together and in love. He began college this fall, and I'm so incredibly happy for and proud of him. There are times when I get this feeling of "I wish things were the way they used to be." I miss our first summer together sometimes because of how happy we were. That's not to say that we're not happy now, but it's so much harder than it used to be. I came to the realization a while ago that we sacrificed one thing for another; we sacrificed that total happiness and contentedness for time to be physically together. It was worth it, don't take this as me saying I wish we had stayed apart, there are just moments when how hard it is hits me full force. There are moments when the only thing that could comfort me would be to be in his arms, and it's the one thing I can't have. But then we have our good days, which outnumber the bad by exponential amounts, and those moments when I say to myself, "What on earth were we thinking?" disappear like they never existed. It seems to be God's way of telling me that we made the right choice in staying together, which of course I never actually questioned; I know that him and I are meant to be together. It's simply God showing me how incredibly worth being together is. Besides, if we never had our hard times the good times might not seem so amazing. Although, I think maybe we've had enough hard times to last us a long time. He makes me so happy, and it's so amazing to know that as much as he's changed my life, so have I changed his. We make each others lives so much better and happier that the hard times seem so minuscule they may as well not exist at all. So here's my thought to you all; when times get hard look at all the good things around you and think to yourself how worth it these things all are. And then when times get easier and good again, stop and take a look around; you may just find that those moments are meant to be treasured because you now know what it is to be in hard times. I guess what I'm really trying to say is that moments come up when we are in need of perspective and giving us hard times to deal with is sometimes a good way to give us just that. When you go through those times, you begin to stop taking good moments for granted, no matter how small they are. You revel in each second of those moments, you live them to their fullest. This is how life is meant to be lived; to take the bad moments, get through them, learn whatever lesson you were meant to from them, and move on, while living the good moments to the fullest you possibly can. Next time you're going through a hard time think of that, and maybe you'll even be able to turn it into a good moment.