Too often we lose sight of lifes pleasures.
How often do we wake up in the mornings and look at ourselves in the mirror, wondering how we can improve our image? I want to challenge you to, instead of thinking of ourselves, think of how you can improve someone else's life. Whether it by loaning someone a dollar, or it be saving someone's life from a car.
We learned in sociology that there are five stages in a persons life. First being physiological needs. (Speaks for itself, but for those not getting big words, I'm saying that you need to have the essentials of life. Water, food, a roof over your head, etc. Sadly, some people don't even reach this stage in their life.) Second being safety and security. We need to feel comfortable in our lives. We need to feel like we're not constantly living in danger. Third being love and belonging. We need to feel like we fit in, and that we are accepted and loved. People usually fluctate in between this stage and the second, and often the fourth stage. Fourth being your self esteem. After feeling that others love you, you need to love yourself. The fifth stage is one that not too many people get too. This is the stage that you generally reach when you're older and feel you've completed everything you need to compelte in your life. It's called self fulfillment. This is the stage where you want to help OTHERS. This is where everyone should be.
By doing what I challenge you to do every morning, this will hopefully get us all to that stage in our lives. It will make living so much more pleasent. We're at the century where we're going to decide what our futures behold. Either violence and evil, or we can make life an amazing place to live. If you're in my age group, we can have kids grow up in a wonderful world.
Or a living hell.
It's in our hands now. It's our choice. What's your decision?
