So my schedule has been insane lately with school and work and well just everything and when I’m super stressed I tend to: 1. lay on the couch and watch bad tv all day to forget about responsibilities, and 2. browse pinterest for hours to procrastinate in actually taking part in all of the things that should have been done two days ago. However, I actually think procrastination on pinterest has an upside believe it or not. The quotes! Sometimes after a bad day reading a quote about pulling through is all you need. Or maybe you’re feeling unmotivated to work harder? Read a quote about someone pushing themselves and suddenly you feel like you could take on the world. What is it about a good quote that seems to momentarily invigorate us? How can one little sentence make an immediate change in ones life?
While procrastinating yesterday found a quote that immediately stuck with me. ” If you want to feel rich, count all the gifts you have money didn’t buy.” Now I don’t need to point out the fact that we live in a material world. Everyone knows what I mean when I say we love things. Whether it be the new iPhone or iPad, or the designer sunglasses you’ve finally saved up enough to buy, we can never have enough. Now I’m not saying its wrong to want things or wrong to have things! What I’m saying is even with all the amazing things we own are we actually happy? Do the material things we have actually fill the void inside? Yeah, I didn’t think so.
This quote made me truly think twice about all of the things I take for granted. I take for granted what an amazing family I have and all the things they do for me. I take for granted what it means to truly have a best friend and someone who you trust unconditionally with all of your life’s trials and problems. I take for granted the amazing opportunity I was given to be able to go to college and expand my horizons. I mean the list could go on and on! Now that I’ve shared a few things that I take for granted, I urge you to stop and take a few minutes to think about things that help fill your void. What would you truly not be able to live without? Anything you put down I guarantee money didn’t buy.
P.S. I was so inspired I decided to make a watercolor and ink print to hang in my room! Let me know what you think 🙂
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