Im noticing more and more how many passions i have in life. I often get pretty side tracked because each little thing is THE MOST IMPORTANT THING EVER!! To others, it may seem exhausting but for me each thing really is the most important thing ever...so what?
As of now the three things that im super passionate about are 1. Love in it's truest form 2. an environmental friendly world, populace, veganism and 3. weightloss for health-of course
SO...this weeks thoughts about love are from new information learned about marriage that i found so interesting. Today our generation is forward driven as far as what our careers need, and the lists we need to check off and meet all to find happiness and success and hopefully our future spouse. But something we have slowly been losing is our sense of commitment. We think if we arn't happy stop and find something that makes us happy-but is that really the richness of life? Temporary happiness?
With our perfect lives we are trying to create we look for a perfect soul mate to go with it. We have a list of 25 various necessary qualities that fit ourlives and standards regardless if they're possible to meet or not. An example given to me was with an iPod. We have our ipods ith our very own special playlist. It has our favorite songs of different genres and artist who may not really go together but we're the only ones listening to it and it makes us happy so screw what everyone else thinks. Then if we don't like a specific song anymore( even if at one point it was our absolute favorite) we can delete it or switch it. A car radio however, we don't have control of. It sits on our favorite station and sometimes it has songs we like or songs that are awful but we stick with it because it's our favorite station and we know eventually the commercials will end or the awful song will cease and then a great song will come on we love, totally making up for the rubbish we just endured. Thats what a comitted reltionship should look like...a car radio hahaha really though. That's kind of what Love is like.
Another idea i heard was not to have an ongoing list of the perfect qualities we need for the rest of our lives but a list of bad qualities we could live with for the rest of our lives. People have good days bad days and their good qualities often change depending on mood, company, circumstance, ect... However a lot of our struggles or bad qualities are the same ones we've dealt with for years. We try and try but they just want go away. So if we pick someone to marry, date, whichever only for the best qualities that override the bad ones, what happens when the good qualities change and they no longer override the bad ones. Make you wish you really would have thought if you could actually deal and except these bad qualities and they were something you could constantly forgive every day.
Forgiveness everyday is one of the huge requirements of Love and Marriage (love and marriage...la la la la). Marriage isn't meant to only exist until the other person stops making you happy. Because a lot of happiness comes form moments when we stop thinking of ourselves and do something completely selflessly. That's an opportunity we get in marriage. To finally have the ability to think of someone else's interest completely over our own. Marriage, not not for happiness but to learn how to love somebody, regardless of their flaws just as God loves us. Marriage is literally one of Jesus's parables for how God loves us. Through our gross yucky days, and our ugly mean side he loves us and blesses us just the same. A blessed holiness. Marriage should be a reflection that makes people think, " if that kind of love exist in the world, maybe there is a GOd who loves ,e". Because that's the image marriage is capable of giving. It's possible that we can't fully understand God's love for us until we get married, or even have a child, and then more over have to give that child away to their future spouse. What an amazing connection one day awaits us all!!
That got long- so as far as environment and health goes i must elaborate another time. But in short- Read "The Kind Diet" by alicia silverstein. I've read a lot of nutrition books and this one is quite a gem. I'm so passionate about it's message. Also GO Vegan!!!! ah- it's so good for you and the world ill go on and on i promise next week. Also i've been learning some BRILLIANT raw food, vegan recipes and desserts!!
Lastly, a subject that i could equally write about and teach and give testimonies about for the rest of my life...weight loss. My last entry i think i said i was at 135? well im at 129 now!! wahoo slowly but surely making progress!!!
P.s. sugar is heroine- stay away ;)
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