I lost $50 today.
I put it in my right front pocket to get it out later. And when later arrived, it was gone. It was a $50 dollar bill.
Was I disappointed? You bet I was. That's fifty bucks that I don't have anymore. And I looked for a good while around the house here and couldn't find it. My bet is I either lost it at Wal-Mart when my dad and I went to go get some stuff. Or I lost it when we sat down to eat some bbq at this place.
But I had to look at it this way. I'm going to make more money in the future. And it's only money. WHAT?!?!?!?
Yeah, it's only money. There's more of it. It's not a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to gain this money. And I don't personally believe in coincidence so to me, this happened for a reason. Maybe somebody who needed it more was going to walk by there today. A person that couldn't afford food for their baby or really needed just a little more money for the rent. So hey, it's all good. But what's more valuable to you?
Family. Family is awesome. I'm starting to realize how much you value it as-of-late. I'm spending time with my dad right now who I haven't been able to spend much time with in the past. And I love it. He's teaching me things that a guy is supposed to know and we're having all that father-son time you would expect two people to have. So it's awesome to have family. I've lived without a father for a while now, and even when I had a step-dad later in the times it wasn't enjoyable at all. So, people, especially teens, dislike their parents. Want to move away when their 18, or the soonest possible time. And never want to turn back. To move far away when college comes so they won't have to visit their parents because they made their teenage life a living hell. And that sucks. It sucks to have your parents treat you like they seem not to care. And often parents use the power they have for reasons even they don't know. But they DID raise you. Or foster parents raised you. Aka you had somebody that cared enough about you to not drop you off on the street. Look up the cost to 1.) have a kid 2.) furnish a room for your new kid 3.) feed another person in your life. It's a lot. So be thankful even if you don't like them. They could've been more mean.
Sleep. Sleep is valuable but come on. Get up before noon in the summer. Don't be lazy. You can get so much done in the morning and then have the afternoons off. I'm done with this one. Get up off your bum and do something. Atleast watch a morning talkshow.
Friends. Friends are awesome. Frickin' awesome. Get a best friend. A person you can tell everything to. Help get some stuff out. Get a group of friends who you enjoy being around. Who won't put you down and bring you up in every aspect of your life. I had a friend who always put me down and it sucked. I wasn't happy. Get you a friend who brings you up and you can have fun with. It will be awesome.
Breathing. That's awesome. Enjoy it. Because if it gets taken away you're dead. So try not to take it for granted.
Sorry this is a long post.
Opposite Sex. Yes. Women for me thank you. It's awesome. Just value them. Don't take them for granted because if their giving you the time of day be very thankful.
Hearing. Right now I'm listening to The Rise Guys podcast for today. It's awesome because I can hear it. Without my sense of hearing I wouldn't be able to listen to everything I do. It's weird eh? But it's awesome.
I could go on for a while about everything, but you understand right? Why not appreciate Jesus?
Jesus. Everything I named came from God. It's weird eh? How everything we appreciate has been GIVEN to you. Have you earned any of it? Did you pay your friends to keep you or your family to consummate you? Now you might have payed a women to keep you company but that's not morally right and you need to repent because at that moment she is very valuable to somebody and you're treating her like she's a piece of meat. Not cool man. So throw appreciation where it's due. That requires you to not take advantage of anything. And pray. Talk. Something I have to work on also. Do it. You didn't earn anything. It was given to you. So be thankful.
And it's only money.
3 comments:
value is a very interesting concept, and most people never really ever address it. Mostly because they just dont want to. Good post my friend.
A small addition to the "Friend" anecdote.
One should be discouraged from putting all the eggs in one basket. Holding a single best friend, meaning one that you may hold a great deal closer to you than all the rest, is a dangerous action to take. Put all your faith in one person and you're darn near gauranteed to be disappointed at some point. It's not on purpose. We're human. We aren't perfect. Everybody messes up sometimes. And other times, change is just neccessary. A change you may not desire, or think you're ready for.
"Depend on any one thing too much and you're going to be let down."
Save yourself this casualty by not becoming hopelessly dependent on a single other person. Having a great group of close-knit friends, at least in my opinion, is the way to go. Most likely, you'll always have someone supporting you.
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Hoyt. You're freaking awesome. I thought I'd totally tell you that. I googled the quote by Gandhi, to make sure it was by him, cause I LOVE him and it's my favorite quote by him. And your blog was the first thing that popped up and I read that one, then I was like D00D! so I read You value....what?, and How Can I Believe? and it was like you were taking the words out of my brain. =)
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