Timing is everything

Ok so over the last week or so I have have realised something about life which I don't think I really thought about before. I mean I think I might have heard it in church but I didn't really take it seriously until this week when I was faced with a situation which got me thinking about it. I started thinking why don't all these things which I want to happen happen to me? So after thinking it over for awhile not coming up with an answer to my question I prayed and it seemed to give me the right answer (or at least I hoped it was the right answer as it seemed to make sense at the time).  The answer which I got from this was that God controls our lives and if we want something to happen or something is going to happen it will happen in God's time not the time that we want. Which means that all we have to do is trust him and be prepared for when it does happen whenever that may be.

Blinded by the Light

 (This actually happened last Friday)
Ok I know this might seem odd but I have just been blind folded for the past four hours. To tell you the truth I don't really know why I did it but I guess to see what it was like and the thought had been playing on my mind for s day or so and since I had spare time I thought why not. So at around two o'clock I got my blind fold and blind folded myself. I first started just watching tv (well not watching tv because that would involve taking the blind fold off but I instead listened to the story which was interesting as I then had to imagine what was going on instead of being able to see it).After awhile I found myself being hit by things though I didn't know what I was being hit by as I couldn't see. So I felt what was on my head and what had fallen to the ground only to find that it was a lemon half and a banana peel which my brother and sister had thrown at me as a sort pick on the blind person joke. This I actually wasn't really that mad at mainly because well it was kinda funny to be hit by fruit which does sound a little weird but it's true. The only problem with that situation was the task of finding the fruit again once it had bounced off you and then throwing it back at the person. Then after this excitement I decided to try and write about this experience (while still blindfolded) but I couldn't find the words I was looking for (which for me is sometimes a constant problem because I always think that there is a better way to say things which I never find or I never find the right words to say at the right time and then I am left thinking about what I should have said which is pointless as you can't change the past). Anyway so I thought and thought and couldn't find the words so I decided to give up and do something else. So I wandered about a bit and did nothing thought about things though not too much and I have to say I think I realised just how much we take little things for granted like our senses. The reason I thought of this is because well there was a lot I couldn't do when I had the blindfold on like I couldn't read, I couldn't use a computer, I couldn't see what I was writing and a lot of other things but I have now concluded there are four things which are good about sight. 1)you can see things which are blocking your way so you can avoid them and not trip over 2)you can do a lot more things than when you're blind 3)you can see the wonderful scenery and not have to guess what things look like 4)you can see the people you love which I have to say is a definite bonus to having sigh. So I guess the moral of this whole thing is that most people only realise what they've got when it's gone so we should appreciate everything we have no matter how small before it's gone

Breaking Routine

Most days I come home from school, pick a flower from my garden and head straight for the computer to which I am then attached to for the next hour or so. I then go on to search random things and people and continue waste my own time when I could be doing somathing productive like studying for my next test or doing homework or assignments. So why do I do this? Well mainly because I'm bored though everytime I do it I am forming a new habit or reinforcing an old one. So why is it that I then expect things to magically change if I don't even make an effort for them to? The truth is I don't really know maybe it's because the world we live in has become so instant I mean like the internet is almost instant and if it is just a tiny bit slow we get annoyed so maybe that's what we think change is sometimes just an instant burst of something different not a progression. I'm not saying routine is bad as it gives us an idea of what to expect but sometimes it's good to change things and mix it up a little. After all changes in our lives can make us better people no matter how small the change is for instance if you decide that you will say "hi" to someone you usually wouldn't then you might end up having a conversation and making a new friend or if you decide to say please and thankyou more often then someone might feel more appreciated. So as you can see sometimes change isn't instant you have to make it happen and it's only when you look back that you see just how far you've come.

Perfection

Perfection-This is  defined as the act of perfecting or a state of being perfect. So why is it that we try so hard to acheive it in everything we do?
Is it our fear of failure that pushes us to be perfect?
Or is it because we want everything to live up to our expectations and to do that it has to be perfect to the last detail or be the exact same as we imagined it?
But the real question is why do we try? After all we have all tried to be perfect and no matter how hard we try we never seem to acheive it, in fact we seem to end up more disappointed than we would've been if we hadn't wanted everything to be perfect. But in the end sometimes what we didn't expect sometimes turns out to be better than we could have imagined. I know because at Christmas everyone hopes that people just read their mind and surprise them with what they always wanted which they often don't. But when we expected those things we were disappointed to find something else making us disregard how great what we got is. But I'm not saying that we shouldn't expect things to happen only to make sure that we don't always think that things will happen the way we expect them to or to happen at all and to just take things as they come and appreciate them for what they are not for what they aren't.