Happiness is a Warm Gun

Happiness. HAPPINESS! In my opinion, happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy, or you can choose to be sad. My question is, why would anyone ever want to choose the latter? I know that life isn't perfect and it can be super stressful, but life is so much easier if you focus on the good things that happen to you. Of course every now and then I have my "emo" moments. But honestly I try to not let my mind drown in negative thoughts, because whats the point? What benefits do you get out of thinking about the bad things? I don't see any. What I'm trying to say is attempt to make the mental choice (daily) that you are going to be happy. You are going to see the wonderful things in life, like sunsets, and trees, and the beautiful world around you. Notice the small acts of kindness that you see others do around you. PARTICIPATE in small acts of kindness. Be selfless. And remember that people will see your example, and echo it in their own life.

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” 
― Dalai Lama XIV
“The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.” 
― Audrey Hepburn
“There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.” 
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“I've got nothing to do today but smile.”
― Simon and Garfunkel

Respect!

Hey guys! I'm here in the good 'ol sunny state of California. I'm waiting for some friends to come and we're going to go walk the streets for this fair they're having. :) in the meantime I thought I'd kill some time and write about something thats happened here.
So on sunday,  my friends and I went to the singles ward in Escondido and we met some really super nice guys. And we've basically been hanging out with them constantly. The funny thing is that some of them arent' LDS, and so they have different standards then us. But talking to them about our religion and telling them what we do/don't do, they've really really respected us. For example; some of them swear like sailors and when they're with us they've been trying so hard to not slip up. Also one dude is trying hard to not drink anymore and we're so proud of him. Even just last night we had this bonfire on the beach and some random guys came around the fire with us and as soon as we told them things about ourselves they tried so hard to be respectful. I don't know why, but this made me so happy. I just feel like if you act a certain way, people will follow your example. And the people you hang out with will act how you do. So if you hang out with party peope who smoke/drink/dowhatever you will in most cases give into that. But since these boys know we've never drank alcohol, or smoked they try extra hard to respect us. I love it. & I love our new friends!! AHHH life is so good. Just know that you don't have to be peer pressured to be something you don't want to be. You can have fun and still live a clean lifestyle. I believe in YOU! :)
I love you guys.
I feel so inspired right now. BYE!

Looking back...

Well, the year is almost up. WOW! Who else thought this has been one of the fastest years ever?? Anyways, I think its REALLY encouraging and uplifting to go back and look at what amazing things you accomplished this year. So, I'm going to list some of the things I feel like I accomplished.
* Traveled to New York City, Phoenix Arizona, Houston Texas
* Made two music videos
* Got a full-time Job
* Met loads of new people
* Lost 30 pounds
* Went to the beach (obvi not the first year I've been, but still something great that happened this year!)
* Sang at open mic
* Saw Fleet Foxes perform
* Met Robin Pecknold
* Saw my best friend get baptized
* Ran two miles consecutively
* Saw Mumford and Sons
* Learned to Sew a little better
* Learned to play Ukulele
* Read some REALLY awesome books
* Bought my first car
* Thew a Harry Potter Party
Anyways thats just some of them. I don't think its bad at all to pat yourself on your back and congratulate YOURSELF for the awesome things you've done this year. What are some things you've accomplished???

New Year Goal-ing

I don't know about y'all but I LOVE new years. It really is just a fresh start on life!!! I love setting goals and seeing myself accomplish them. Here is a list of some of my goals


eat healthy healthy healthy
keep room cleaner than the white house
write in journal every night
write always
make new friends
become close to old friends
sing a lot
be creative
buy cannon mark d 2
move

Read Scriptures DAILY

Pray always

Do something REALLY unexpected like ride in a hot air balloon

Buy a road bike

Do a 5 k

Do a half marathon

Travel somewhere new. Preferably out of the country

Get straight A's

....

anyways, I have lots of goals. And I'm excited to accomplish many of them. They're pretty reachable, so whats stopping me? Nothing.

p.s. I had an awesome Christmas. I love life. BYE!!!!

pss. I"m going to Cali in a week and two days. I love that.

BYE AGAIN!!!!!!!

Let Go!

Hey guys! Just wanted to say WAT UP? And also some more things that I've been thinking about lately.
The topic I want to speak on is letting people go. There are some people in your life that honestly don't make you a better person. Just admit it! As much as you want to keep them in your life, you've got to just let them go. Whether its a boy who makes you insecure and CRAZY, a relative who just brings you down, or just an old friend who just doesn't make you feel good. You've got to let them go. It may sound hard (because maybe you really LIKE that boy, or maybe that relative can be nice SOMETIMES) but if its making you sad, or its making you not yourself, you've just got to move on. I think that having certain people in your life that don't encourage you to be the best, are really unhealthy for you to have around. Happiness is what I think we're all aiming for in life, right? Well, to be happy, we've got to put the negative things out of our lives. Even if it may hurt for a minute. You'll soon see that once you get those negative nancy's away from you, you'll become a lot happier! I hope you understand what I'm sayin. I'm not saying go tell that person "HEY! I never want to see you again" Just keep your distance.. (in a nice way??) hahah Okay I don't make any sense. Whatevs!!!!!!
Bye bye.

The Help

Wow.
WOW. Thats all I can say. I just saw the movie "The Help" and seriously I can't begin to tell you how amazing it was. This is the type of movie that makes me want to go into filmmaking. A movie that makes you FEEL something. A movie that inspires you to be a better person. I don't know what hit me so hard when I watched it, but it has given me this new drive. I want to go into filmmaking and make movies that motivate people to be the best that they can be. I want to make movies that make you think, and make you evaluate your life and say to yourself "hmm, what can I do to be better?" I just feel like I have potential, and I just need to get the proper education and training. I'm motivated!! You know what? I'm going to follow my dreams (as cheesy as that sounds). I want to make a difference, even if its the smallest difference in the world. I will accomplish things in this life. The only thing thats holding me back, is, well myself. I just turned 22 and ya know what? Its a new year for me. I'm going to grab a hold of it (my life) and mold it into what I want it to be.

If you want something go try and get it! Thats what I'm about to do! I'll let ya know how things work out, pinky promise.

WHATS WRONG WITH ME???!!!

Whats wrong with me?

A question I'm sure many of you have asked yourself.  But I think we need to change that question to: Whats right with me?

Look. Look at yourself in the mirror. There are so many "right" things about you. For instance, I love my eyes. I'm really happy my parents gave them to me. Another thing I really like is my hair. I mean yes it has split ends, but I'm okay with that! I like the length and the color.  Find five things you like about yourself appearance wise. I know you can do it. GO!

And while your looking at yourself in the mirror, think about how lucky you are that you have vision! (sorry if you don't........) We are SOOO lucky to see the beautiful world. Sunsets, sunrises, stars, moon, clouds, trees, flowers, fish, cars, ANYTHING! We get to see those things. We are lucky.

Now listen. Do you hear that song playing in the background? YEP! You can hear things too? Wow! Amazing! What would we be without the joy music brings us? Honestly I think the world would be much more depressed. Being able to hear your family's voice, or being able to hear the rain is such a blessing.

EW do you smell that? I'm pretty sure you're in the bathroom right now looking at the mirror and it probably smells like shizzz but remember the time when you smelled that delicious food earlier? (be creative) aren't you happy we can smell? I love scents so much. I have probably 1000million perfumes and lotions. I just love smelling good. I just love smelling period. (except when I'm in the bathroom. sorry)

My point of this post is yeah, maybe you think everything is wrong with you, but I'm pretty sure there are a lot more things that are right about you. Find the things in life that are going to make you happy and "dwell" on them! Don't think about the negative. ESPECIALLY if you can't change it. If you can change it, then try working on it step by step. I believe in you if that counts for anything. I've changed a lot in the past few years and I'm really happy about it. So I believe you can change if you really want to. BUT if you can't change it, then accept it and try and start liking it. OWN IT!

Anyways, done blog blogging. Bye bye.

Ps my best friend May got baptized. She's the one in the bottom picture. (this is what I wore)