It's a fatal mistake to live your life ruled by fate, it's on your hands to change your own sorry state....

Life is long but it's too short to go through each day taking the enjoyment of simple things for granted. That's what this blog is about.... only positive things that occur in my day to day life. Something that happened recently made a red light go off in my head asserting that I need to start concentrating on me and what I need to do to get my life in the order that I want it to be in.

I realized that I have the ability to really make the best of the most shitty situations. I'm trying not to take the simple things in my daily routines for granted. I realized that I have the ability to make a change for the better in myself, because I want to, and that achieving my goals (little by little: baby step, by baby step) and living my dreams are absolutely achievable.

I've been wanting to do something like this for a while so I figured that now would be a better time than ever. These are things that make me happy, and since happiness is proven to be contagious, then it just might brighten your day as well. Here goes.

SO, for today here's what I've got:

• *This morning I skipped class because I was late and didn't feel like walking into the class tardy. Instead, I ditched the typical "internet" boredom-routine I usually would fall into and I spent 4 hours in the book store at school reading various material. It helped me relax and sort my thoughts. Especially awesome was the soundtrack of whatever radio station that was playing while I was in there, consisting of:

- Sponge - Plowed
- Jimmy Eat World - In The Middle
- AFI - Miss Murder
- Kings of Leon - Use Somebody
- Fall Out Boy - I Don't Care
- Muse - Knights of Columbia
- Sublime - Wrong Way
- Bush - Glycerin
- Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Rascal King

• * A boy (I used to date, I suppose) who I've lost contact with and haven't spoken to in almost a year and I started talking again. I filled him in with the things going on in my life and he did the same. Long story short, he told me this,
  

  "Your ex boyfriend sucks. That's a terrible reason to break up with you. He doesn't know what he's missing out on. You're such an awesome girl and you deserve way better than that".

  Coming from him, that's huge. ....And it made me feel really good.
  

• I was thinking.... anything is possible if you give it a little time. But there's no use in lying to yourself and thinking things are so set in stone when in reality you don't know what the future will bring. How can you be so certain about something you can't be certain about?

• "Why do men do the things they do? We are so weak and cowardly-- perhaps women are right to despise us. In love, we behave like children lost in the dark". -Batman

• Maybe people are so interested and obsessed with comic book characters and superheroes because that way they have a way of relating themselves to those characters. ....That their favorite superhero really does hold a true-to-life representation of their character and can show how and why a person feels the way they do and why they do the things they do. After all, don't we all strive to be like our role-models? I don't think it matters if they're fictional or real -- either way, regardless, fictional characters have traits and personalities, too. And by better understanding a person's role models, inspirations, and the things they relate themselves to, the better you're probably be able to understand that person.

• Something I've learned today: ENTROPY: "Disorganization", and we're constantly fighting against equilibrium.

• Someone I was inspired by today: My science teacher. He's so interested in everything and his curiosity is never ending. His wife and him have been married for 60 years. Everything about him is a sign that there still is hope for the good life I want to live, also.
  

• Never underestimate the power of a good, "Awwwwwwwwwww", after something that's been said. It easily warms the heart.

• I helped somebody today by: Picking up some sort of gift card that fell out of a classmate's pocket and gave it back to her. She wouldn't have known otherwise.

• Good thing for my body I did today: Went to the gym with Janine. We're going to do a Yoga class on Tuesday and Thursday nights! Today I ran about 6 miles.