This Is Water

            On Monday, Mr. Delacruz showed us a video on YouTube called This Is Water for our MoMo (motivational Monday). It was a great video, and it focused on changing your perspective about trivial things. This Is Water specifically focused on the grocery store, and the occasional frustration that can come with waiting in line, and many other things that can be compared to the grocery store—the frustration with believing everyone is in your way. It was this statement that really hit home for me. I am a big sufferer of this mentality, and funny enough, it happens quite often at the grocery store. I have a tendency to become flustered with the smallest things: people not driving fast enough, someone parking idiotically, people saying things, people making mistakes, and essentially being human. I have systematically conditioned myself to become upset over these arbitrary happenings, and that is such a poisoning way to go about living. This mentality is exactly what This Is Water addressed: don’t think people are in your way! They are not! Get over it, and focus on the good things!

            Another path of thinking This Is Water touched on is the thought we are the center of the universe, and everything revolves around us. Thinking people are in your way plays right into this thought. It is crucial to think in a different way, and to realize, that really, we are just a speck of life in an endless universe, and our lives mean nothing—just like my boy, Ecclesiastes, preaches. We are not all powerful and important like we tend to crack ourselves up to be. Everyone else around us is going through things, so be sensitive to that, and try to not be so quick to judge. Just because people go about things in a different way than you doesn’t mean they are a lesser person because of it—be empathetic and understanding! It is all about how you perceive and think about events in your life that determines your outcome and ultimately your happiness. Since that video on Monday, I have put a lot of effort into restructuring my thought process when things happen. I have made an effort to not believe I am the center of the galaxy, and I have put a lot of mental sweat into realizing people are not in my way! Remember, THIS IS WATER!