Perfect Day Essay

    Lyrics in music stick in the mind of the listener. Zack de la Rocha, the lead singer of a famous rock band, Rage Against the Machines, wrote a song which at one part says, “It has to start somewhere”. I am not quite sure what exactly he was referring to but a perfect day has to start somewhere. A perfect day takes a lot of things to come true and it usually depends on the person. A perfect day is something that starts from inside a person and reflects off of everything around them in a positive way.
    Like anything, a perfect day has to start somewhere. I believe it starts inside ones self. Something that is found inside a person is feeling. To have a perfect day one has to feel it. They have to always remember that a perfect day is within their grasp. More importantly, they have to believe they can be happy. If one is not happy they cannot have perfection. This is because joy is the result of perfection. Joy and happiness always coincide therefore, one has to be happy to obtain a perfect day. Besides feeling like having a perfect day one has to have a desire for it. The person has to want to have a perfect day so bad that they will not let anything bring them down. The individual has to be willing to go the distance, the extra mile, to complete any task that stands in their way. Even if someone does not have a perfect day, as long as they have positive feelings and desires, they will still have a great day, guaranteed.
    Once a person has positive feelings inside them, they begin to lose control of their joy. This, in turn leads to them expressing their feeling of extraordinary happiness to others. The best way they do such a thing is through their attitude. Attitude really does effect everything else a person does. Attitude is controlled through desires and feelings which is why it is so important to have good ones. Without a positive attitude others will not be able to recognize that a person is having a perfect day and neither will the person. One of the best ways to show that one has a positive attitude is by simply smiling. When someone smiles it creates emotions in others that they did not even know they had. Smiling is so easy to do yet so easily forgotten to be expressed. The other part of having a good attitude is by being engaged. If a person shows others that they are even the slightest bit interested in them then they will be given the same treatment. The opposite of this would be silence, awkwardness, and possibly contention. In the end, no one likes any of those three things. Without attitude it would be very hard to have a perfect day.
    There is opposition in all things. Therefore, since positive energy starts from the inside, negative energy will come from the outside. It is very key that one does not let such negative things get to them if one is going to be successful at a perfect day. If they do, then it will just be a downward spiral of degrading feelings and no progression will take place. The best thing someone can do is respond to those conflicts in a professional and mature manner. All they have to do is be polite, especially if it is a person sending out the negative feelings. This is because if a person responds in the same manner then the spiral effect will occur. The best thing to do is remember that either tomorrow or the next day, it will not matter anymore. Therefore, they can either let it get them down or just instantly move on and continue enjoying life to the fullest. It does not matter what events happen to a person that determine who they are. It is how they respond and react to those events that defines them. As long as a person can keep a positive mood they will be able to have a perfect day.
    When a person is happy with themselves, others, and has a positive attitude that is unchangeable, it gives them the possibility of living a perfect day.Without joy and happiness, perfection cannot be achieved. Without desire, perfection is unnecessary. Without a positive attitude, negativity is left to take up the place of it. Without smiles, others cannot be happy either. Without devotion to being perfect one cannot begin to be perfect. A perfect day can occur everyday. The only thing one has to remember is that if they are not progressing, they are digressing.

Utah Experiences

            Living in Utah right at the foot of a mountain at least a mile away from civilization meant one thing, adventures-outdoors-with-my-siblings. Every day was something different, dancing in the living room with giant headphone on our ears, pushing on my sister's shoulders cause I wanted to help her get the full splits and then running away when I realized how much help I'd given her, hiking in the mountain and then turning around and running home as fast as we could when we saw a bright orange vest in the distance, swimming in the damn up the road and then running home screaming in the rain cause of how close the lightning was, recording videos and wetting my pants because my sister wouldn't let me put the camera down and go to the bathroom so she could sing her song or sometimes we would just play baseball in the front yard. But the most exciting story was found twenty steps from our front door.
          It was a Saturday, midday, when my sister and I were home all alone. We decided to go outside and look around. A house was being built a couple hundred yards down the dirt road and there was a crane with a hook on the end. It was just low enough where we could swing it back and forth and black red neck catch in a way. That was fun until I missed my turn to catch it and it came back and hit me in the back of the head. Don't worry, I'm alright, I think.
       After that we were walking back home. and out of the corner of our eyes we spotted this little plastic igloo. It was our neighbors dog house and I decided to act all tough and get on top of it. I then continued to jump up and down and pound on my chest with my fists.

       My sister's laughing soon turned to screaming as she turned and ran for the house. I did not know what she was so scared of, I wasn't that scary. But soon I learned that I had been jumping on top of the home of a few hundred wasps! I was too scared to jump off and follow my sister's footsteps so I just stood there screaming my lungs out. After a couple dozen stings I ran into the house faster then I will ever be able to run again.
      My sister decided to help by putting band aids on my stings but that doesn't help with the pain. It's the thought that counts. To this day I've learned one lesson, don't jump on plastic igloos. 

Sports Fans

      What is the big deal about sports? If you really like a sport than watch it and cheer on anyone and everyone involved. It shouldn't effect your every day life. Don't purposely choose a specific team and put down others because they don't like the same team as you. Think about it, if everyone liked the same team then the others wouldn't even exist therefore that specific team would have no one to play. Honestly, what is the point in getting upset over a championship game. It doesn't effect your life whatsoever! Cause no matter who you are you still have a family that loves you. Even the coaches and players that lose the game still get paid! The college level players still keep their scholarships. It's no big deal. 
       If you've taken the time to look up specific statistics about a certain team and all it's players think about all the time wasted. Can you think of less than 5 things that you could be doing instead that are way more productive, I can't. Why waste time watching other people live their dreams, get out there and live your own! You cant watch life go by from the sidelines. You have to get out there and be a part of it. Old habits die hard but I know you can be just like me one day.

Girl Kitty or Boy Kitty?

    Boyd K. Packer gave this story in his talk in the third session of the 180th general conference. "A teacher got her students a class kitty. The 2nd graders persistently asked her, "is it a girl kitty or a boy kitty?" The teacher said, "it does not matter" because she didn't want to go into detail about the cat's gender. Finally one boy raised his hand and said, "I know how we can tell". The teacher replied, "How?". His response, "We can vote on it"."

    This task was simple yet it goes against nature. The students could vote all they want but the cat is going to be the same gender as it was before. Thus it is the same with families. You can't just vote to make it possible for two people of the same gender to be able to be considered a "family". A marriage is strictly made up of a man and a woman and no other combination is right. My advice to you who might be for this right is found from the rolling stones, "you can't always get what you want." If you really want to be different buy a pink or yellow car.

Last But Not Least, life in general

        August 21, 1994 a day that will live in infamy. No, not really but it was the day I first entered this big world. My older sister's 6th birthday as well as my aunt's. My sister still holds a grudge that I ruined her party that year. Every year since I have been old enough I've had a party during the day and then she's had her slumber party. I guess you can't always get what you want.
        Ever since I was old enough to listen I've been taking mental notes on things I want and don't want in my life. A few experiences were worth the time of personally witnessing but others were just too harsh to even want to know of people going through such trials. I have always been taught to choose the high road, be a good example to others, be brave, follow the golden rule as well as other sayings and little lessons we all have to learn at one point in our lives. But until you actually understand the meaning of such things you won't personally be effected by them. You have to actually have a change happen from inside to want to be a different person.

         You can't expect to just wake up one day and be a whole new person living a better life. It doesn't work like that. Though there have been a few exceptions to this rule of life. For instance I heard one that there was a man getting a few drinks with his buddies when he out of nowhere or perhaps being under the influence decided that he was sick of the life he was living and the shape he was in so he got up from his bar stool and literally started running. Now he runs marathons all the time. But don't get any ideas. Especially if you're a 99 year old man who's had a couple dozen open heart surgeries. We cant all have the instant determination as the ''marathon man'' so we have to rely on the slow process of change. Hopefully we always change for the better. This isn't the case all the time because there is opposition in all things.

        Being the youngest of six I have been able to see 5 different ways to go through each part of my life with at the least a three year head start. But people have been doubting me before I was even born. The doctors thought I'd have problems because my mom was an older woman when she was pregnant with me. But even since then I have been proving people wrong. Another situation of which I am grateful to prove wrong is the fact that I am taller than my father. I have always been afraid of never making it past five foot six but all is well. Not that there's anything wrong with being short I just didn't want to have to have good comebacks for all those stupid tall people jokes. They just get really annoying so I've just wanted to be ''normal'' height, as if normal even exists. Life is all about proving limits wrong, exceeding maximums.
          Without change and uniqueness life would be boring. I recall watching a spongebob squarepants episode once where spongebob's neighbor moves to a community where ever one is the same type of sea creature as him, they all play the clarinet just like him, they all get the same food at the grocery store, they all ride their bikes to work. Everything is the exact same! At first he thinks it's the coolest thing ever and that he's living in paradise. But slowly, over time, he realizes that he misses his old life where he was constantly annoyed and he was his own person. This is a perfect example of why uniqueness is so key for life to be interesting.

          Another type of uniqueness is wealth. The truth about money is this aphorism from Ben Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack, "The poor have little, beggars none; the rich too much, enough not one." If everyone in the entire world had the same amount of money, food, water or basically all the necessities of life then they'd just constantly want more anyway. There would be no need for service or charities or governments really. Basically it would be communism. The problem is that people wouldn't reap the benefits from their labors if this was the case. And if we aren't learning from our mistakes or not even making mistakes in the first place, what's the point of life? This being said, though at times it seems life is unfair or just horrible, there is no other way and we will be rewarded in the end.
       In school, students often times asks themselves the question "how does this effect my life whatsoever?" or "when will I ever need to know this in the future?". These questions are normal since we are so tunnel visioned that our minds often only think of hours or days ahead of time. But there are reasons for each thing we learn not just in school , but in every day life. History class, the main reason students have this class is to learn from mistakes. Math class, the reasons for this subject are countless, but seriously, who cares about all the endless digits in pi?! English class, also self explanatory. Although, spell check kind of defeats the purpose of trusting your own spelling and grammar. But science is the touchy subject to try and explain.

      Science classes study the actual reasons for why things happen while at the same time leaving out any connection to religion. But what about the students that don't believe in science as much as religion? Did the schools ever think about that? I guess not cause my choir class cant even sing about turning stone to bread in our upcoming concert so we find ourselves "ooh" and "aah"- ing rather than singing the lyrics. But I'd like to hear science class explain stone to bread or water to wine for me. What's the difference about talking about how we all need to make a difference in others lives and love one another and talking about the definition of charity? So how can a school say they don't talk about religion yet they bring it up everyday? I guess I'll find out one day.
      The best class is definitely any music or fine arts class. There's never very much homework, you get to freely express yourself, and you always have fun doing it whether you want to or not. It's also been proven that kids that are involved with music, performing not listening, have increased learning capabilities. Music welcomes joy. I can't explain it any simpler than that. Without music, life is boring. So in a way music is the equivalent of uniqueness or a form of it anyway. It doesn't matter how well someone is at playing an instrument or singing it's the fact that they try their best. People should always try there best at everything they do, not just when it's required for a grade but for EVERYTHING!  

     Besides classes, school is good for other things. Sports for instance. Not everyone is fit for sports but that doesn't mean they shouldn't exercise. The things you do in high school can and will change the way you live your life. So don't slack off now and expect to change later in life. We aren't all the ''marathon man"! It's so important to develop healthy and worthy habits while you're young so that you can enjoy being old. Who wants to be coughing up a lung when they're fifty nine, not me. Friends play a huge role in our habits as well. So every now and then, stop and think about where your life is headed. If you don't like what you picture, change it, fix it, do what is necessary to correct yourself. The best time to think about things is walking before sunrise when it's still peace and quiet. Or maybe it's in the woods somewhere. Wherever your secret quiet place is. Maybe it's just in your heart rather than a physical place.
      What happens after schooling I haven't lived through yet so I don't feel worthy of talking about it, yet! Remember, it's not what happens, it's what you do about it. Stop and think about what you're doing. Ask yourself, "what would that kid whose blog I read do if he were in my situation?" Thanks for reading this if you did.
     P.S. Don't forget, actions speak louder than words so SMILE!!!!