In other news, I'm totally ready for 2013 to start. I crave change. I long for motivation. After Whit's wedding in March, I'm gearing up to chop off/donate my hair again and possibly go more honey blonde. Not sure if I can muster up the courage though... i love my natural hair color and highlights... the last thing i want to do is mess that up. ugh i'm young and need to be adventurous! so we'll see what April actually brings. I'd say my friends and family are evenly split on do it or don't do it so ultimately my own choice will swing the vote. I hope I do it and I HOPE even more that it is worthwhile.
Being an adult is just an inner demon in and of itself. So many responsibilities. The stresses are that much more difficult to bear but we all do it anyway. I'm devastated at the elementary school shooting in conneticut. Overwhelming emotion is constantly bubbling just below the surface--i want to curl up and cry and cry and cry and cry. All those families, friends, innocent children and teachers with so much ahead of them in life. Of course, my beliefs and religion has helped me hold myself together. While I can't imagine the hurt and loss, I truely cannot imagine not knowing I'd see my loved ones again or knowing that they were with God. Someone on facebook mentioned Joseph Smith and something he said.
“We have again the warning voice sounded in our midst, which shows the uncertainty of human life; and in my leisure moments I have meditated upon the subject, and asked the question, why it is that infants, innocent children, are taken away... from us, especially those that seem to be the most intelligent and interesting. The strongest reasons that present themselves to my mind are these: This world is a very wicked world; and it … grows more wicked and corrupt. … The Lord takes many away, even in infancy, that they may escape the envy of man, and the sorrows and evils of this present world; they were too pure, too lovely, to live on earth; therefore, if rightly considered, instead of mourning we have reason to rejoice as they are delivered from evil, and we shall soon have them again. …
“… The only difference between the old and young dying is, one lives longer in heaven and eternal light and glory than the other, and is freed a little sooner from this miserable, wicked world. Notwithstanding all this glory, we for a moment lose sight of it, and mourn the loss, but we do not mourn as those without hope.” - Joseph Smith
“… The only difference between the old and young dying is, one lives longer in heaven and eternal light and glory than the other, and is freed a little sooner from this miserable, wicked world. Notwithstanding all this glory, we for a moment lose sight of it, and mourn the loss, but we do not mourn as those without hope.” - Joseph Smith
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