Life Stinks

I know, I know, not very encouraging right? Life Stinks, that is how a lot of people in this world think. They go through life just wishing for it to be over, one problem after another and for them, life really does stink. However, other people who go through the same problems, have the same issues, seem to enjoy life and can't wait for tomorrow and what it will bring. Strange how people can be so a like in circumstances, but so different in life views. Who's right? Well, I think the real question is, who do you want to be like? So many times we question others and judge others, because it's easier to do that, then to search ourselves and find in ourselves what it is that we want to be.

I have found that in life, judging people feels good for a time, but never really changes them in any way and often times makes them worse and makes our time with them more miserable. However, if we see in another something we don't like, then we should make a mental note to ourselves that we need to make sure that we are not doing that in our own life. If we judge, we simply make a snap decision and often find nothing good in it. Judge's are only used for bad situations, people who have broken the law, or have wronged us in some way. Judge's don't look to find a way to make a bad person better, they simply look at the law and see if you are in line with it. We are not judges, we are neighbors, friends, relatives, son's, daughters , fathers, and mothers, who need to find ways to make ourselves better and use that to help reconcile our relationships and make more friends then enemies.

Make the Change Blog is about changing the way we think and act, in order to help us remember why we used to sit on our porch swings and talk to our neighbors, as our kid's played together. Why community used to mean something more then a place where there are a bunch of houses close together, but instead, where there are a bunch of people living together and walking through life together, looking out for one another and caring for one another. This is how America used to be, this is what Make the Change is all about. Let's work together to bring back the communities of yesterday. Go buy a porch swing or a few lawn chairs, sit out in your front yard and meet the people in your neighborhood. Go ahead "Make the Change"!!!

From flying to dying

Have you ever had times in your life where everything was just going so good and then all of a sudden you find out something horrible and your life seems to stop and your world seem to heave like a storm cast sea and you feel like you've went from flying and soaring like an Eagle, to plummeting down to your death, not knowing how your going to save yourself? If you've been alive for long you have had these moments. The question is, will you lose yourself in the storm and never be the same again, or will you hold true to yourself and fight your way back to the life you loved before it all came crashing down.
These are the things we need to think about, when we deal with people everyday. There may be a person that you have known for years that is funny and always smiles and never has a bad word to say, then one day, BAM!!! Their not smiling, the jokes are gone and they can only complain about life. What do you do when this happens? Do you judge them and get mad at them and gossip about them, or do you try to understand them, comfort them and try your hardest to bring back the person you knew before? It's very hard sometimes to put ourselves in other peoples shoes and try to understand them and why they act the way they do. It's easier just to shun them and write them off and not care, but if we are to make a change in our communities, our families, our friendships, we must step back and try to understand that people are human and they like us, have times in their lives that turn them upside down and tears their heart apart trying to figure out what comes next.
So, the next time you find yourself dealing with a angry, rude, mean person, before judging them and writing them off, try to step back and give them another chance, because maybe the effort you make investing your time and heart in them, may help them to not lose themselves in the circumstances of life, but bring them back to the life they had, before their world was turned upside down. Make the Change!!!

Scott