Sunday, September 21, 2008

Not too Late, it's Never too Late

So I was reminded today of a song by Three Days Grace, called Never too Late. I was thinking about this as I was wallowing in the crap that I'm feeling like right now about how everything has gone wrong, or seems to be going wrong (see my last post). This is the point where I realized that I was ridiculously lame. Sometimes you really need to be slapped in the face, or beaten repeatedly over the head, by your mistakes and the areas where you're really not doing that well. You need this because it does one of two things, either it makes you really depressed and you start a downward spiral of despair, or you realize, hey so I'm really not that awesome, okay, but I can do something about that. I can do better than I have been doing and I can make this right. Hence the lyrics from Three Days Grace. So I still kind of feel like crap and that everything is awful, but I'm now really determined to make it better. Haha as I sit here writing instead of my homework, but I have gotten a lot done! So here begins another quest to be better. It sort of seems like I start this a lot, but even though I start this a lot, hopefully I'm not starting as low as last time or the time before that....Hopefully I'm building.

10 comments:

Kara said...

I think that's the point of life. One of my youth leaders used to tell me that life is like an onion- you just keep peeling back these smelly layers of crap, and you feel a small sense of victory with each layer that you discard until you realize, great, I still have a ways to go. But, the people who really suck are the ones who don't know they're carrying around all those stinky layers and just annoy everyone with their ideas of how perfect they are. So yeah, you're starting again- but you're a few layers down, a few more to go.

Heidi said...

That's a good analogy. It's hard sometimes but ya you really do have to keep going and not get content with how far you've gone.

Abbey said...

Ha this is funny, since what I started to tell you yesterday about my Sunday School class was that I had to tell them about my talents. Yes, Abbey's talents are Cleaning! Found one! Lame talent Abbey. Time to work on myself a little bit more, so that I'm not the servant who hid his talent and then lost it forever. Yikes. I am so that servant.
Peelin' off the layers of the onion, peelin' off the layers! It was a good little slap in the face though when I couldn't even tell 5 year olds what things I do well.

Abbey said...

Ok, when I typed this in the Leave Your Comment box, there was space, lots of space, between the first sentence and then the one about cleaning. That made my point a little better. So just picture that in your head, lots of time thinking about what my talents are.

Heidi said...

Haha I can visualize it. You also have a creative talent, making those magnet boards you're good at. You can see color really well.


Honestly I can't think of any talents specifically for myself either....maybe school but that's an even lamer talent than cleaning, at least cleaning has a use.

Kara said...

Whoa, girls, we need some serious self esteem lessons here! I'm giving it some thought before answering all Heidi's questions to help her develop a psychological profile (partly because I'm wondering what you're going to do with said profile) but seriously, I'm answering them on both of you! And paying close attention to best personality traits and special talents.

Heidi said...

Haha I'm not going to do anything with the profile I just like to look at people and how they are. We don't have bad self esteems I don't think just when you're asked to articulate something like that it's hard.

Abbey said...

Oh Ben just said Never Too Late or whatever it's called is about a person wanting to kill himself. Pick a different one!

Kara said...

That's true, it is hard to articulate without sounding really conceited.

Heidi said...

Right that is what the song is about but the person saying it's not too late is trying to talk them out of it. Don't worry, I knew the song haha.