Wow, it has been a long time since I've posted anything. Last year around this time I did a post on new year's resolutions. I began thinking that maybe I should make this a tradition. This year I decided to really think about how I wanted to be better and how I could go into this year a different person. Unlike I have in the past, I really sat down and thought about my resolutions. I decided to move away from the traditional ones and focus more on where I am in my life. Obviously I'm in college and one of the biggest things I have noticed is that I'm really comfortable. Being comfortable isn't a bad thing until it becomes too much. I stepped back and realized that I am consistently spending time doing the same things with the same people every day. Don't get me wrong, I love my friends and they are some of the most important people in my life. But, I thought, why do I feel stuck? I narrowed it down to the fact that I like being comfortable. I like knowing that my friends are always there, but I needed to move out of this luxurious comfort zone. I decided that I was going to put myself out there and meet as many new people as possible. I wasn't going to allow myself to be shy and fade into the background.
Another resolution I made is to serve people. I'm definitely not one to go out of my way to look for opportunities to serve others, but I need to be. Everyday I pray to find people who might need help with something or who might be struggling in some way so that I will be able to help them. I have also realized that you can't serve others and expect something in return. You have to put your whole heart into it and know that you may not receive anything from them and that's okay. The idea behind service is to be humble and kind. I have had the opportunity a lot lately to be able to hear from a few apostles in the church. Most, if not all, have talked about how we are living in the last days and that we need to be the best people we can possibly be right now. We don't have time to wait around and be lazy. We need to fix ourselves and become better now. When I listened to M. Russell Ballard speak he told us that when we find ourselves on the other side, the Lord won't be all that interested in all the things we did, and the clothes we wore or the belongings we had in comparison to the people we were able to touch. I think this is so important in the world today. So much of us, myself included, are much too interested in our appearances and worldly goods, when we really need to be anxiously engaged in becoming the best people we can be by being kind to others and serving them.
