Sunday, January 27, 2013

A Life of LAUGHTER

“I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.”
Audrey Hepburn


 To feel any emotion is truly important to a persons well being.  Laughter however has the capability of touching ones soul.  It has been proven that it is physically more exhausting and takes the use of more muscles in the face to frown than to smile.  I'm not suggesting that we all walk around in uncontrollable hilarity all of the time, but smiling to yourself and even laughing should definitely be encouraged.  A memory, or an image, or a funny face that your friend made at you should be celebrated.  Laugh until your stomach hurts.  Laugh until your smile feels like it will reach your eyebrows.  Make it a point to laugh and to smile at least once a day.  Even then, once a day just doesn't seem fulfilling to me.  Do it as much as possible, help bring these joys to the people around you.  A smile or a really corny joke has the power to do wonders in a persons life, even if it only lasts for a fleeting moment. 

Sunday, January 20, 2013

A Maker.






These words.  These lyrics.  Though they may have been spoken an infinite amount of times throughout the course of history, no one individual has ever created them together in this specific way.  A way which helps describe my feelings, my hope, my fears, my loves.  I am a Maker.  A maker of a multitude of lyrics or poetry; art; ideas.  Every one of us is a maker in our own right.  Every instance that we speak or think or laugh or cry, we are makers creating ourselves.  We are responsible for the greatest discovery or invention rather of ourselves.  Perhaps the most magnificent things that we make are not tangible for society, but rather it is those aspects of ourselves (our ideas) the most physically untouchable aspects of this world that have the greatest impact.  We are all Makers.  Makers of ourselves, new beginnings, ultimate ends, the arts.  The road on which we travel throughout the course of our lives helps us to better discover our passions and who we are- each a unique Maker of something meaningful to some extent.