Carlie's Blog

“Friends are medicine for a wounded heart and vitamins for a hopeful soul.”

Steve Maraboli

Friends are always there to help in the worst of times. They will always be there no matter what, because they care for you. If they are true friends they will walk with you when the road gets rough. There will never be anything to stand in the way of a best friend and a challenge. If they see you faltering, they will rush to your side to help you. They will never give up on you no matter what happens. A prince can save you, but only a best friend can heal you.

“Happiness can be found in even the darkest of times, if only one remembers to turn on the light.”

J.K. Rowling

Finding the light in the darkness can be hard. Of course, it could be a whole lot easier if we choose to let the darkness of of mind fade, and let ourselves be hopeful rather than making ourselves drown in the doubt, in the fear, the feeling that you’re never going to make it no matter how hard you try. Because none of that is true, but if we believe it, it becomes a reality because that is what our mind is set on. We need to stay positive and keep on believing that we can make if we try hard enough.

“Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there.”

Unknown

Sometimes its hard to appreciate the people that matter most. It’s easy to dismiss the most meaningful  people, the ones that help you through the tough times, support you through the bad ones, and who always know what you need. It’s easy to forget about the friends that are always there for you no matter what happens. We so often those sight of those amazing people and we forget they ever helped us in our worst times.

“I have decided to stick to love … Hate is too great a burden to bear.”

– Martin Luther King Jr.

Love is hard to show, but hate is heavy to carry. Love is slow to anger, hate is quick to speak. We cannot do both at once, we must choose one, and stick with it. We, along with other people, will be happier if we love. While if we hate we, along with other people, will be unhappy, and cause others to be unhappy right along side us.

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: Only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: Only love can do that.”

Martin Luther King Jr.

To make friends, you need kindness. To keep friends, you have to have compassion. To be a friend, you need to be understanding, loyal, and sympathetic. You cannot make a friend be being mean, you can only make a friend by being kind. Hate cannot make people like you, only love and kindness can drive someone toward you.

“Joy is not in things; it is in us.”

Richard Wagner COMPOSER

You are the only one who can control the joy inside you and make the choice to be happy. You are the one who can choose not not let anything break you, to not let words bring you down, to not let the little things hurt you. That is the only thing you can do not stay happy in the tough parts of life, stay hopeful in a time of despair, and to help make others around you happy, hopeful, and always striving to do their best.  These things can remind you to be a happier, more joyful person, but you have to choose to listen to that reminder.

Joy is inside us always. It is, in a way, our sixth sense. We can always control it, it’s always there some where, deep inside of us. It can give us peace in the hardest of times, and hope in the most hopeless situations.  We can never fully get rid of the joy that resides in us, we can only lose sight of it for a moment. Sometimes it’s easy to let the negative thoughts and feelings take over. Find the light at the end of the tunnel, and run toward it.

“The joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.”

Russell M. Nelson RELIGIOUS LEADER

Joy is not about finding happiness in the moment, it’s about having to make the choice to find joy even in the hardest times. Life is not always the easiest, but we have to preserver when it seems hardest to carry on. joy is a powerful emotion that only we can control. We may blame the world for our hurt, but the only ones we have to blame is ourselves for not choosing joy.

“I ask not for a light burden, but for broader shoulders.”

-Jewish Proverb

I think that this means, we have many things to face in our lives, but rather than obsessing over the things we can’t change, we can say, “This will get better,” and remind ourselves that, some things will always be bad in life. But if we keep ourselves locked on what is bad, then our lives won’t be very happy. We will be full of bitter, angry feelings, and will be bitter, angry people.

“Loyalty is something you give regardless of what you get back, and in giving loyalty, you’re getting more loyalty; and out of loyalty flow other great qualities.”

Charlie “T” Jones

I think that, even if you are upset of in fight, you have to remain loyal to your friends, unless they’re a bunch of creeps then you ditch can those people.  But if you are loyal to your friend, they’ll trust you more and they’ll be loyal to you right back. Good friends are harder to finder, great friends are harder to keep. Hang onto your friends.