Simplicity.

So, to be perfectly honest I really don't know what to blog about today. I thought about the lovely - you're only young once - lesson that seems to keep coming up in my day to day life, but when I started that blog, it didn't go very far. It was much better in my head than actualized and thus, I erased what I had started. Now, I am starting over... only in today's society can I do that.

I've been finding myself faced with quite a few decisions lately. What do I allow to effect me? What do I not? Who do I give second chances to, likewise, who do I not? Yes or no? I mean, really conceptually, this whole thing is simple. The meaning to life is really simple. The complexity in anything lies in the simplicity. "It CAN'T be that easy."

Oh, but that's the beauty of it. It IS that easy. Human nature is to over-complicate things. If we just did and stopped thinking, we'd be a lot better off. My darkest times are the times I spend in my head.

I wrote down the following one day: It's what doesn't exist that will always win. 


I struggled with that statement a little bit, but had the revelation one day of its truth. It wins because of the endless opportunity and the sheer possibility that it COULD. We've shoved everything that we "know" so far into a box that there's no way it can.

I remember reading The Little Engine That Could and thinking "That's so cool! He believed in himself." Somewhere along the way I realized that if he hadn't believed in himself, no one else ever would have. That epiphany changed a lot of how I think. Of course, I don't always think that is the case, because God knows that there were times in my life that if someone else hadn't believed in me, I never would have. I think that there is a lot of give and take and that once you have someone who can show you how to believe in you, it becomes your job to believe in yourself. It's that simple. Believe in you.