Be Your Own Kind of Happy

I feel like it can be really hard to have your own voice while writing a blog. Especially when you are following about five other blogs that each have their own voices...so you start to hear all of their voices in your head. And you want to be funny like they are, or write some really deep insights about life like they do, or at least make your mind sound somewhat relatively interesting. So you start typing, hoping that words will just come to your brain that will make you seem like you have all of these amazing qualities and characteristics. But, in the end, if you try too hard to be something that you aren't, and if you try too hard to crack a funny or make people laugh, you begin to lose the sincerity of it all, and your attempt at a really funny joke falls flat and there's about thirty seconds of awkward silence while everyone else tries to decide how to respond. So, in the end, it is better to just be yourself. It's better to be funny on accident (if that's how you roll). It's better to be genuine. It's better to understand that the individual you are is amazing, that you have so much worth, and that the best kind of person is one who is truly them self. :D

So here I am, with my own voice, with my own insight, and with my own jokes (as unintentional or corny or unfunny as they are). I am looking forward to writing down my thoughts (as crazy, bizarre, and Shalysse-esque as they might be), and I can't wait to share my individual personality with whomever decides to read this. 

So here I go:

I guess, to kinda go along with the Scattering Sunshine theme-dealio-bop, I just want to comment on how amazing I think random acts of kindness are. What an amazing thing it is when an individual goes out of their way to do a small thing like smiling, talking to you, or holding open your door. It makes me feel so warm and fuzzy inside!  

Our lesson in Relief Society today was about service, and it focused on Jesus Christ as the perfect example of love, service, and sacrifice. There was not a moment in His life that He was not thinking of others. My RA pointed out that even when He was dying on the cross, one of His last thoughts was for His mother and how she would need someone to take care of her after He was gone. What an amazing thing! 

Even if your random act of kindness is just giving thought to some one else and truly wondering how they are doing when you ask out of politeness, i feel like that can go such a long way. Even if your random act of kindness is just being happy and helping others see that ray of sunshine in their lives. Even if your random act of kindness is taking that extra second to leave a small note for some one you care about. We are all living life here on earth; we are all children of a loving Father in Heaven; we are all trying to be happy, and life is so much easier when you can share your happiness with those around you. 

****Quote of the Day**** 

"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."  

~~Mark Twain~~