make plans

Everyone loves to do things with other people but generally don't want to be the one to make the plans. Just do it, you love it when other people do.

mistakes

I hate making mistakes. It's just something I don't want to do. Unfortunately I learn more from mistakes than I do from good decisions. And then it's a tricky balance to forget the mistakes so they don't weigh you down yet still remember the lessons you learned from them.
I love making mistakes. It's just something that's good sometimes.
Here's to stupidity. Here's to not being perfect. Here's to making a quest to slowly transform our imperfections into perfections.

curiosity

We've all heard that "curiosity killed that cat", but I've never seen what's so wrong about being curious. Curiosity may have killed that cat but satisfaction can bring him back. What does kill us, however, is the confusion with what satisfaction truelly is. 

** actually... I just changed my thought... it's not confusion with what satisfies that kills us. And it's not that satisfaction CAN bring you back but satisfaction is the ONLY thing that brings you back. Just being curious without finding results is like running on a treadmill.

addition to a previous post...

So I was writing a couple days ago about not exactly believing the line that I put in a song. "I've learned that expectations lead to disappointment, so I hope for the best and live in the moment." I decided that wasn't right since we should always expect greatness and tweak failures. But I guess that only has to do with expectations in yourself. When you expect great things out of other people or things all the time that you don't have control over than you can easily get into a state of mind that nothing else is ever good enough. So expect greatness in yourself, but expect the worse. That's probably what I was thinking when I first thought of that.

The Sacrament

I use to ask myself fairly often why we take the bread and the water/wine/whatever you use with the sacrament. Of course they have to do with reminding us of the body and the blood of Christ which was slain and shed for us, but where is the real correlation between these two things? Why can't just one thing remind us of the atonement rather than two? Or why is it important that he suffered seperately between the Garden of Gethsemane and on the cross on Calvary? After a lot of changes to my answers I finally found one that seems fairly concrete and well supported. Starting with the base of the reason for the sacrament: The Atonement consists of the suffering in Gethsemane (which allowed Him to go through all of the temptations, pains, and infirmities that we go through that he may atone for those things), the crucifixion on the cross (which put an end to all of life's temptations and pains, and sanctified him to the next level), and the resurrection or his spirit and his flawless, immortal body (which broke the bands of death allowing us to do the same and to all individually be reunited into full fellowship with our Heavenly Father once again). With all of this in mind: the bread, representing His body, reminds us to be sanctified and put a 'death' to pain of sin or temptation as we covenant to take His name upon us, remember Him, and keep His commandments; and the water, representing the blood He spilt, reminds us that the blood He spilt continues to atone for our sins and all kinds of pains as we covenant to Him that we will always remember Him. As we keep our parts of this covenant He will allow His spirit, or the Holy Ghost, to always be with us.
I wrote a lot more about this separately but I think this describes it enough for now.

Family

I spent the past few days with Talia's family. I love them all. I learned a few things about life. I learned even more about what a family should be... close, friendly, funny, forgiving, busy, religious, having goals, and reminisced. There is always a hardship withe everything in life, but with every hardship is a solution and a teaching opportunity.

Jealousy

We often waste time on being jealous. Don't. Sometimes we'll be in the lead and sometimes we'll be eating everyone else's dust. But when we all get to the finish line we'll learn that we all were only running our race against ourselves as we shared the track with others.

sometimes i worry about what people think about me... maybe

Songs?

Lately I've decided to try to make more music. I've always enjoyed learning to play other people's art but I'd rather put my own contribution into the world. I often think of good one-liners that i think are neat but have a hard time putting them all together; or a hard time matching them with music (mostly from my guitar). Music generally comes really easy to me but doesn't generally stay on topic.
Anyways... the reason I started writing this: would it be alright to include a line in a song that seems to be a good, general, and fairly individual thought even if i don't necessarily believe it? A long time ago I wrote "expectations lead to disappointment so I hope for the best and live in the moment" and recently fit it into the chorus of a song. But since then I've learned that even though expectations often lead to disappointment, that disappointment from unexpected outcomes can teach the most valuable lessons ever learned. I'd rather expect greatness, tweak failures, and never give up, than to quit expecting and just enjoying whatever comes. Pleasure can come from living in the moment but true joy only comes with improvement from knowledge, which often comes from previous hardships.