I have a favorite quote...I have loved it for a while now. "If you want to be happy, BE." --Ghandi. Is that not the statement of the century? :) Happiness is so personal and personally induced! My mom used to tell me when I was little and often grumpy about my lack of barbies or not being able to play when I wanted that no one could make me happy but ME. I always have better days and an easier time putting a smile on my face when I think about those who don't have nearly as much as I have. I have a beautiful, living family, a knowledge of my God and Savior, an opportunity to be educated, enough clothes to last me 3 weeks without doing laundry (I save it and bring it home ;), a healthy body, food to eat...the list only goes on and on and on and on....you get my idea. Just think, if every single person in the world decided to be happy one day, amazing things could happen. Service would sky-rocket, suicide levels would plumet, people wouldn't feel the need to go out and buy extravagant Christmas gifts to give temporal joy to others...just a thought. :) I am not saying that gifts are bad, but as we near the day that we celebrate our brother Christ's birth, let's remember to be happy for one day for him. Let's be happy and remember that many don't have what we do and to show thanks for it. Christ exemplified his life through service. Let's do the same! Let's pay it forward a little and make the world a little brighter and better in the next few days.
