Simplicity

As many of you know I've faced many challenges in my life. Going through these experiences you realize it's really easy to get down. After coming to terms that getting down and depressed won't get you anywhere I created a short list of rules.

I've I live by 3 rules:

1. The Golden Rule
2. Never forget your dreams
3. Revel in Simplicity

The "Golden Rule"

Treat others as you would like to be treated. There isn't any excuse not to. I find to often that people are selfish and think no farther than what benefits themselves. I try to follow this but I know everyone slips every once in awhile, I'm guilty of it myself.

Never forget your dreams

As you've all read previously my blog about dreams. People often forget their dreams and stray from the path they originally set out to pursue. Just keep those dreams rattling around in your head and you'll be just fine.

Revel in simplicity

This is my absolute favorite rule of the three. People often tend to live life in a rush. I can understand how its easy to get caught up in everything because life has a funny way of throwing everything at us at once. Being in a rush we often overlook the beauty that come in the simplest things. One of my favorite thing to do is drive to my grandpa's house and just sit. Most people would look at this and see a old, run-down house surrounded by fields. I see many things.

The fields- a bunch of rows of cotton? Not at all. You start with a seed. The simplest and smallest of things. You throw dirty on it and give it water every once in awhile and the seed turns into cotton. This one cotton plant will keep someone warm from the cold of winter. How badass is that?

The house- It may be old and run down, yes. But what are houses for? They house families and families make memories. There are so many memories that happened in this house, most we will never know but that doesn't mean they don't exsist. Some good, some bad, who knows, but thats what the house represents. All the memories that were shared in it.

Its amazing to sit on the porch of the house and watch the sun turn the sky into a thousand different colors as it sets behind the field of white. This is enjoying simplicity, or at least, it's how I enjoy it. All these simple things come together and form life. Most people just haven't slowed down to enjoy it lately.

The point-

As humans we get so caught up in the tasks we do every day. Its not our fault, it just happens. Whens the last time you took a step back from life in the fast lane to slow down and just enjoy the simple things? I find simplicity in everything; a beautiful view, a pretty smile, good news, a hobby, a cold beer. Why don't you try it? Take a step back and just enjoy the simple things that come together to form the crazy thing we call life. Well I guess I've rambled on enough. That's all folks!

Change

More often than not people ask me questions about my life. Some pertaining to how I live it, why I do things, blah blah blah. There are 3 questions that I get asked way more often than the others, that is if people actually have the courage to ask them. I'll be addressing all three questions at one point or another but i figured I'd start with this one first:

"If you could go back to that day and stop yourself, would you?"

The first time I was asked this my immediate answer was yes, of course I would. Since that day i've spent alot of time pondering this question and this is the conclusion i've come up with. Lets suppose you sat down one day to read a book. You start the storyline not knowing whats before you, but after awhile you find yourself engulfed in whats happening. You can't get enough of it, you think it's the most badass thing you've ever laid eyes on. All of a sudden the you notice the ending chapters are ripped out.

This is what its like for me.Yes it absolutely sucks to not knowing what would of happened but i think I'm more caught up in how the story would of ended rather than wanting to go back and stop myself so I could actually live my life the way it would of turned out. I dream of going back and becoming a professional athlete with a rockstar life but in all reality I know it wouldn't of turned out like that. That's all just some fantasy that I wanted to live.

That's why my answer is, now, is no. I wouldn't trade a day of my life now for a hundred the other way because I know that everything that has happened to me is what make me the person I am. I'm everything I want to be and am headed in the direction i want to be headed in. In my eyes i AM the pro athlete with a rockstar life.

The point-

 The thing about the book ending short might suck right at first but it gives you the chance to do something else. It gives the chance to re-write the ending and make it how you want it too. Everyone has something they think they messed up on and probably wish they could go back and change. But do you really want to? Just think about it.  Everything that has happened to you has gotten you where you are. Maybe it's where you wanna be, maybe its not. If its not the good news is it's not too late. Rip the last few pages out of your book and grab a pen.