The quality of life

There's something beautiful about the quality of life I enjoy everyday. I don't have to worry about finding a place to live or hunting an animal for my meal each day. I don't have to use these primal instincts that were passed down from far ancestors.

So, I'm free to enjoy the world. I've got all this free time to do what I love. Everyday we make thousands of choices. We act everyday. What a beautiful thing: the ability to act. The desire, the instinct, to act.

Rather than sitting here on my butt all day like a stereotypical American girl, I can choose to act. Choose to write, choose to help someone, choose to make a difference in the world, big or small.

What a beautiful quality of life we have- even when we grow up and have to worry about finding and keeping work, providing for a family, raising children right. We still have this beautiful God-given gift. This gift of holding our destinies in our hands. What if I wanted to switch schools? What if I decided to never marry? What if I ran off to Vegas and became a stripper? What if you did?

I never would, but that's just it. I could if I wanted to. I can be as big or as small in this world as I choose to be. And so can you.

When someone, myself included, says they are unhappy because of something in their life, it's absolutely a lie. Happiness is a choice, I've discovered. Our quality of life is a choice. We can live a boring, miserable, meaningless life if we want to. Or we can choose each day to focus on the beauty around us and live a happy life full of light and change.

I will admit that somedays I choose to let my life be dull and meaningless; I sometimes choose to have a bad day or be in a foul mood. Sometimes you just need it. But I've always got this fire burning within me, this happiness and satisfaction with myself. Why else would I write this blog that is read by no one? Because I'm just happy with myself and where I am.

I can't wait to see where I go because I know I will be big. Things just work out for me because I believe they will. Because I recognize my role in the opportunities I come upon.