I Believe...
The essay I really found I could relate to on thisibelieve.org has to do with finding joy in the little things in life. It is titled "Fun In Life," and speaks to a woman's experience in finding happiness through doing little activities with her children, like making an igloo and driving around, singing along to music. It was her daughter who said, "Life is only as fun as you make it." This sentence really resonates with me because that is something I believe down to my core: not everything you do in life is going to be enjoyable or fun, but if you make up your own fun along the way, everything can be enjoyable.
...In Spontaneity.
My story actually took place yesterday. This weekend the weather was absolutely beautiful, especially for mid-February, and one of my friends who has a car here at school was away for the weekend, and told my roommate and I we could borrow her car if we wanted to. (We did.) We decided Saturday that it would be a perfect opportunity to go to the beach, and invited along our other really good friend, and future roommate along with us. We still had two spots open in the car, and on a whim, invited two girls we were out with on Saturday night, since we always seemed to have so much fun whenever we were hanging out with them. Plans were formed basically the night before, and Sunday we all met outside Swig and started our journey. We went to brunch at a little cafe that we had googled and it turned out to be incredible. Then we went to Natural Bridges beach and hung out on the beach for the afternoon. Both my roommate and I love photography and have DSL cameras, which we had brought with us. We must have taken over 500 pictures, with so many of them being candids. As we went through them once we had gotten back to campus, we were pleasantly surprised at how incredibly happy we all looked. We weren't going anything particularly exciting, other than laying out at the beach, but in every picture, every person was laughing or smiling the most genuine smiles I had seen. When I look at the pictures from yesterday, I realize how it was such spur of the moment trip, and yet at the end of the day, I felt so happy and at peace. Its moments like this that make me realize how important it is to not always rely on plans, but sometimes just make things up as you go, and see where the day takes you.
I believe in Spontaneity. I believe in taking things one at a time, and going with the flow sometimes. I believe in pure joy and laughter. I believe in opening yourself up to new people, and branching out. I believe all these things together help relieve stress and remind you that no matter how rough things get, a day like the one I had can make you feel like a whole new person.
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