Music has an amazing affect on people. It can change your mood instantly, give energy when you have none, or set the mood for a romantic night. Bring back memories or even seasons from your life. I was just listening to a playlist and every single song brought me to a different period in my life. Some of them brought me to time periods. While others just had single memories. I started scrolling through songs, and every single song brought back a memory of a time I listened to that song before or a season in my life I really liked that song.
Many of them brought me to different memories in high school, both good and bad. Different times when I wasn’t very happy with my life. I just wanted tomorrow to come and my problems to be over. Its amazing how those memoires drag you back. I miss those times. I miss how much simpler and easy life was back then. But at that time all I could think about was getting past the days I was living. Wanting tomorrow to hurry and bring better days. I never realized how good I had things. How beautiful life was. We as humans always find a reason to not be happy with life. We allow the little things to affect our mood. We take each day for granted and rarely stop to think about how blessed we are each day.
This is something I have even been struggling with on the race, especially the last couple days. We have been working long hours in the hot sun pouring concrete. I spend most of it counting down until we are done for the day. It is hard work, and I don’t really enjoy it at all. But I have learned a lot from it. I am glad we did it. I just need to work on savoring the times in life that aren’t as enjoyable.
I get excited so easily about the thought of going home in 8 months. Except I know in a year or two I will be looking back missing these times dearly. Missing the people I was with, even the pain from missing my friends and family back home.
Life is a hurricane on the open sea. Life is a breeze. Life is full of ups and downs. The key to happiness is remembering life is beautiful. The bad just as much as the good, because without the bad, you have nothing to measure the good times by. Don’t take the time you have for granted by wishing the future to come sooner. The future will always come. But today, this moment, once passed, is gone forever.
P.S. I am not sad or in one of those “bad times” in life. Things are great. I am talking about life in general. There beautiful ups, an
