Not Just A Phad

So, today I was looking at the facebook pictures of a friend. I won't say who, because I don't want anyone to feel bad that it wasn't them. Anyway...I was going through her pictures and I thought to myself, "Wow...she really is exemplary of beauty." (Yes, that is how I talk in my head.) And I began to wonder why. I have decided that the reason she is so spectacularly gorgeous is because of who she is. She is really a truly remarkable woman. She is Christlike and kind and very hard working. She sticks to a life plan and is moving through it well. And in all this she manages to keep herself physically fit and healthy. Overall, an exemplary human, yes? And I realized that I have many friends who are equally exemplary. Perhaps a few of them aren't as successful, or maybe one is not quite as fit, but I have many friends who are, in all reality, much better people than myself. I have the privilege of being surrounded by the most amazing of people. I have said this before, but I would like to say it again:

Thank you.

Life does not generally bless me with luck. Rather, life has blessed me with an abundance of friends and acquaintances who improve my life quite a bit more than any amount of luck.

Although, I wouldn't mind a little luck either...

Advice From Mr. Smiles

"Every human being has duties to be performed, and, therefore, has need of cultrivating the capacity for doing them.

An hour wasted daily on trifles or indolence, would, if devoted to self-improvements, make an ignorant man wise in a few years, and, employed in good works, would make his life fruitful, and death a worthy havest of worthy deeds. Fifteen minutes a day devoted to self-improvement, will be felt at the end of the year."

--Samuel Smiles from his book Self-Help

This isn't a particularly long or insightful post. But it is an indication of how my mind has been working lately. I am taking things from all over the place and applying them to my life somehow. I was watching Sin-City and I managed to apply some of the images and characters in the movie to myself, illustrating ways that I could improve and grow. I have been thinking a lot lately about that state of my person. I have read so much and learned so much, that by this point I really should be an amazing individual. However, I am not. And in my constant quest to improve, I am finding that the world is full of things I can use to learn and grow. I am really enjoying it. Lately, I have learned from conversations with Camille, hanging out with Russell, watching movies, reading for school, reading webcomics.....pretty much everything in my life is working to improve me. That means I am either a very good person becoming better, or I am so awful the world has given up on hints and is just telling me what's wrong. I'm going with option A.