Finding Happiness

For a while here, I've felt just a bit lost– perhaps I still am a lil' bit. But I am learning to be happy regardless of my circumstance. One of my coworkers yesterday spent half an hour telling me to keep my chin up and to make friends at any opportunity. He said to stop meeting people and evaluating in the first 2 minutes if I would be interested in dating them. He said that Provo convinces us that until we are married -that is how focused we need to be. If they can't offer anything but a friendship, than drop 'em. He explained that he got caught up in this windmill of thought until he realized how unhappy he had become, and how all of his friendships were being suffocated and people ceased to trust him.

Apparently he experimented his whole last semester. He said that he would write down the name of every person he met and tried to remember it. He did this regardless of if he would see that person again. Naturally, he began to pay attention to what these people were saying during that initial conversation. Not for any reason other than... he simply cared.

He said that it was such a little thing but he has never been happier. He is super single. and super happy. In fact, I'd say that he is rocking at life. And I thought, Wow. You know... I want to be like that. I think I used to be... I guess sometimes we have to re-learn lessons. AND BY GOLLY I'm going to re-learn this one. UNH. Thank goodness God puts people in our lives to remind us of the lessons that He's already taught us.

My uncle showed me dis video and I was like. Uhm. YES.