Reasons To Keep Living

Just in case you didn't read my last post, "Love, Life, and Other Important Things", I wanted to share this with you, because I think that it's something everyone should at least try. So if you cannot sit through that other horribly long post, here is the important part:

Life is a gift we were all given. I know that I am a TOTAL hypocrite when I say this, but life is something we should never give up. Ever. It's worth too much. I mean, the smartest people in the world don't even know how it was created, it's pretty damn valuable. And I know that when things get hard and you feel like you cannot take it any longer, you think the only way of ending it is dying. And to be 100%, completely, absolutely, positively honest with you, it may not ever end if you're still living. But life is too amazing of a thing to throw away. I could write so much more about life in this post, but I'll do that another time. For today, here's what I suggest:

My friend Rebecca (Hi) has this thing called a "blessing journal". She writes what she's blessed to have in it. It sounds like what I do is kind of copying her, and maybe it was sort of subconsciously piggybacking off of her idea, but here's what I do: a "Things I'm Thankful For" notebook.

Every single day since the beginning of the year, I make sure to add at least one thing new in the notebook. Even if that day was uneventful, you HAVE to write something, even it's is small and pointless, just something you're thankful for. Even if you're having the worst day you could ever possibly have, you are required to write something, regardless of how insignificant it is. If you had spaghetti for dinner and it's your favorite food, write "spaghetti" if there's nothing left to write. If you have a candle in your room that smells SO GOOD, write the name of the scent of the candle. It doesn't matter what you put in there, as long as it's:

a) Not something you wrote before.
b) Something you TRULY love and are thankful for, not something you just put in there because you had to.

And on your bad days, you can look at the notebook and realize all that you have to live for, because there's honestly so much. The world is an amazing place with countless things to offer, and as long as you have at least ONE thing (no matter how small) worth living for, you should keep on going.