Anything worth doing, is worth overdoing

Everyone should live a day in the life of someone else every now and then. Most people don’t appreciate what they have, myself included. Intelligent people should live a day in the life of someone less bright than them, to experience the feeling of not knowing everything instinctively but having to work for it, and sometimes failing in trying despite your best efforts. Beautiful people should live a day in the life of someone far less attractive than them. It seems in a lot of cases the beauty of a person overshadows any other qualities worthwhile having, and being beautiful gives you a reason, a valid excuse not to try and work for things in your life, most things are handed to you without the biggest of efforts anyway. Skinny people should live the day in an overweight person’s body. Having society look down on you for being overweight, not interested in the reasons or possible explanations, but merely looking down because it’s socially accepted to torment those who are “lesser” than the average person. Wealthy people should experience being homeless, scrambling to make it through the day, not having anywhere or anyone to turn to. Everyone would benefit of a taste of the opposite, whatever their advantage might be, because it would be such a vital link in not taking things for granted. Things we assume will always be around and things we build our personalities or lack thereof on, which really don’t define us in any way, but we still manage to let them.

The reason I’m on this morality kick is because recently I’ve met a person who has greatly influenced my life and the way I think. Someone who has been both the lesser person and the person on top. Someone who has experienced the lows of life and has ridden the highs. Someone who treats everyone kindly and with patience and respect because he knows how it feels to be the humbled one. The beautiful part is I don’t even think he understands that he is inspirational because he doesn’t try to be, nor does he preach, it’s just the very way he acts and behaves that makes you want to strive to be a better person, someone to admire instead of someone you will look back on and regret being. We shouldn’t let the fact that everyone else seems to be miserable and angry control the way we feel, there is always a chance to change things around and work on the things you’re unhappy with.

- I am scared I am no longer me. I am LA Rachel. I need to find my roots I need to find me again.

(Source: bluesdetoi)