Do harder things. :)

me and Mom ad kt went on girls night tonight and I'm gonna write about what we talked about. :) Over our frosty's and waving to passingby trains (I kind of love you kt...) we read the "Do hard things" book. The chapter about 'The myth of adelesiance" It was really good. It's amazing how strong the message of the world really is. No one really expects us teenagers (well besides our persistant parents) to do anything hard or difficult that would benefit others in some way. The world tricks us into thinking that the 'teen years' are where u just kick back and have fun and everything you do is for yourself. It tells us that the most important things in life are being cool, being hot, being 'in', and being bad. I mean seriously. You're not cool unless you wear stuff from a certain store, and you can't wear stuff from that store unless your hot, and if your hot, you have to be bad to. And your not considered in the 'cool' group unless you are all of the above. Doesn't sound to cool to me. The world basically takes evil, dresses is up to look attractive, tells us it's good, and encourages us to indulge in it. And it's so easy to! I mean it's everywhere we turn. If you really think about it, the world is telling us to take these years of our life, experiment with evil, and basically throw them away. Obviously most of us have parents (thank God) who won't let us do that but it's still easy to get caught up in the world, even if it's not in an obvious or big way. It's so easy to waste years of our life worrying about stupid things like who likes who, and what this person said or didn't say. Honestly, if it wasn't for my very Godly friends, sisters, and parents i could get caught in gossip for hours on end. Reading through this chapter made me think back on the 15 years I have been alive, what have I acomplished? What have I done that I can look back on and say, "wow that was a great use of my time". Unfortunately, not as many times as I would like to say. But God's mercies are new every single morning and I know He has the grace for me to do hard things. Even stupid little things that really should NOT be hard like changing the subject when u see it headed towards gossip, sometimes those little things are the hardest. :P Anyway this post is getting very long and I have to go finish homework. that's my amazing start to doing hard things, impressive i kno. ;)


thanks for readin,

<3,

Bece