Focus

"Celebrate good times, come on!"

If you pick any thing in life, I'm pretty sure you can see both the good and bad in it. Your job, the people around you, where you are in life, whether you're single or married, have kids or don't, etc.

Sometimes when there are elementary aged kids that come into Starbucks, they are super cute, well behaved, and I'm like, "I want a kid." Other times they come in and are terrors, whining, trying to take our tips, picking stuff up and putting it back in the wrong places... and I think, "Maybe I don't want kids."

Thursday, on my day off, I slept in late, and went to a bakery that my mom's friend just opened. I got an oreo cupcake! YUM! I stopped in my Starbucks and got my free iced triple grande 2 pump pumpkin spice 2 pump white mocha. I then went to a new store called, "2nd & Charles" which is a huge store that has used books, movies, games, music, and more. It was the first time I had been there and was fascinated by everything, took pictures, and thought of things I could buy people for Christmas. After driving back in some terrible traffic, I ate dinner with my parents, and then went to Steak and Shake with some friends and had a milkshake. I thought during the day, "I'm so glad that I'm not teaching right now, that I have days like this where I can do what I want and there aren't 5 million people out here with me because they're at work. And on nights and weekends I don't have to grade papers or write lesson plans." And of course there are days when I think, "Will I ever have a better job? Will I ever make more money? Am I stuck here? Will God ever open another door?"

You can't always ignore the things in life that stink, but there's no point focusing on them. I think you should change and grow from the things that are negative and not just brush them under the rug, but not let it make your daily life bitter or sad or hopeless. When your focus is on the good stuff, it's a good thing! There are times though that you should talk about what's bothering you because it's therapeutic and helpful and freeing in some cases.