Most of us have something that we really care about, it may be work, a relationship, or a activity/sport/hobby. And whatever it is for you, I am almost positive that you try at it, that you make sure that it never goes away or it always turns out good. For me I have sports, I run. Sure I do other things I enjoy, but I really love to run. In case you haven't been reading my blog then I should inform you that I've recently been injured, and am currently unable to run. Yesterday I had my first Physical Therapy appointment, which went okay and stuff... but sadly I found out that recovery is going to last even longer than I thought it would. Meaning I would miss out on most of the Nordic skiing season. This information is really hard to cope with, since I was aiming to be able to ski this season. My new goal is to be able to run in the spring, and during my appointment they gave me exercises to do on my own. And to be honest, it's really hard to get up and do these exercises for a half hour when you know that your previous goal got flushed down the drain. Now I know this seems like I'm rambling, but stay with me. But despite not being able to ski, I'm still going to put in everything I have into my exercises. Now I know that there's a lot of other worse things that could happen to a person, but the concept of trying your best to get better is the same. I know there's people who will give up hope and think what they're doing is a lost cause, people who wonder "why am I doing this?", and people who just wish or mope about but never really do anything. All of this comes down to self determination, something that I had no idea how to activate or give advice about. So I was browsing the internet and found Scott H Young - Blog, in one of his posts he talked about trying your best and he said a way to activate your self determination could be to continue to do the task daily. I would think that this could also be hard, but even if you continue to do it everyday and hate it you would eventually learn to appreciate it. While this is a great idea, there's also a really important way for us to get pumped up. Ecclesiastes 9:10 says, "Whatever the activity in which you engage, do it with all of your ability, because there is no work, no planning, no learning, and no wisdom in the next world where you're going." And for me that's the reason why I continue on, because I know that my time here on earth is short, so I better have all of those experiences under my belt when I leave. And don't forget to check out Scott H Young's blog at: https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/ !
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In my last post I discussed boredom and how it effects people, which by the way if you want to check that out just scroll down. In the article I made a point that doing nothing isn't necessarily being bored, since the person could in fact be taking a break, thinking, or relaxing. I have decided to write about all of these things, which is what I call "quiet time". This quiet time is a time to sleep, read, or do any other quiet and pretty much mindless activities. When I was little I thought this was the most worst thing in the world (if you didn't know to a kid to do nothing but be quiet is torture). But as we all grow up we begin to need this time to rejuvenate or to just stop for a bit in our busy lives. I think that this quiet time is essential to a healthy stress free life. And really for me quiet time means quiet time with God. Whether this is reading my bible, praying, or writing in my journal. All of these things help me unwind and really just help me refocus my attention back to God. But my problem lately is since I've made my quiet times habit (which is good) but now they become very repetitive, which leads to me being bored. So the other day when browsing through my social media pages I found this blog called One Step at a Time and when I skimmed through the site one specific post caught my eye. It was a post on quiet time and some ways to get creative with it. Within a minute of reading I found myself ooooing and awwing all over all of her awesome ideas. She talked of gel pens and highlighters to amp up the fun, and these amazing study methods that I had never heard of before. The author is Lianna Grace, who really has a talented mind for writing uplifting and easily understandable things for mainly Christian teen girls. I've began trying all of these new ideas and have found myself mixing things up and by trying out new ideas from her blog and other websites I've regained my focus into my quiet times. To wrap things up I would definitely say that quiet times by yourself or with God can be super helpful in keeping a stress-less day. And when you get bored with what your doing try to mix things up and try out new ideas to make things more interesting. And Don't Forget To Check Out One Step At A Time at: http://onestepatatimeblog.weebly.com/ .
Like I've said before I'm dealing with an injury to my knee. And at this point of my injury pain is not my main issue. I've found that I haven't left the house for a few days, that I've watched the same episodes on Netflix over and over again, and that I end up sleeping in latter so I wont have to get up and do nothing. My problem is boredom. And really this got me to wondering about boredom. Is there a way to avoid it? Can it be bad for your health? What's the difference between doing nothing and being bored? So I did some research and here's some cool things that I found. That on the health perspective boredom could be potentially hazardous. It isn't necessarily going to cause cancer or something along those lines, but it does lead to depression, anxiety, overeating, drug and alcohol abuse, and other symptoms such as these. In one of the articles I read it mentioned something along the lines of how boredom is when you are unable to engage in certain activities. This got me to thinking about one of my sister's go to cures of boredom, video games. And actually I attempted this cure and just plain got hooked on the game I was playing. I realized that boredom could potentially lead to other addictions as well. The one that came to mind for me was gambling, all of those slot machines that could entertain you for the moment and you just get sucked into them. Another thing I found when researching was that your decision making is compromised when you're bored. This explains why addictions happen since the person who is bored isn't even thinking clearly because all they want to do is cure their boredom. Another key thing that I found was that boredom increases the chances of making mistakes because the person isn't focused on the task at hand because they're bored of it. This doesn't seem to bad if what you're doing is coloring in a coloring book, but when it's a task such as flying an airplane, lifting weights without a spotter, or putting up Christmas lights on the roof. Let's go with the weight lifting scenario, your benching and you're not paying attention so you let the bar fly down too fast... BANG! SPLAT! OUCH! So really boredom isn't very good for us mentally or physically. And really I'm going to leave off with a quote I found online, "Boredom- God's way of telling you that you're wasting time". And really just sitting around and being bored is pretty much just wasting time. Time that may seem like it goes on forever, but eventually our time here on earth will end. Or even your time being a kid or having youth will end. And just think of all the things you could be missing out on if you're bored.
To begin I want to say I'm sorry for being a day late, but like I said on the about page things are going to be a little rocky to start out.
So let's take ourselves back in time, not to long ago when there was Joysticks, Reebok Pumps, and Micheal Jackson! The 80's was a time where things were totally tubular, bodacious, and rad. But little do we know that the 80's has a lot of similarities with the 21st century. And a main one being The American Dream, which when some people hear this, what comes to mind is freedom, family (and what usually comes along with this is suburbs), and a nice refreshing Coke. I know that's pretty stereotypical, but honestly it's true to a certain extent. I mean freedom most people will totally agree with so I don't think I'll have to defend that. But suburbs, just think of all the movies with suburbs being something desired: The Truman Show, The Family Man, and others. And when I was watching the Olympics at least every commercial brake had a Coca Cola advertisement. And really when we think about it, this hasn't changed much. In the 80's once again freedom was evident, and suburbs where in practically every movie or TV show: E.T., Sixteen Candles, The Wonder Years. And Coca Cola, well that was iconic in the 1980's, just look up a 80's Coke commercial. Now I kind of went a little off topic, but let me steer us into my main point. That almost all of these things require money. A house, a car, soda, and all the other things that come with it, they all cost a lot of money. So really The American Dream could be considered money. And a lot of people would think, "That's not true." And really I would agree "Money Can't Buy Me Love", along with a lot of other things. I mean don't forget about the most important parts of The American Dream: freedom, equality, and opportunities. All things that aren't bought. I got the idea to write about this when hearing the question: If money cannot buy happiness, can you ever be truly happy with no money? And with all of the things about what The American Dream and The Pursuit of Happiness really is, most people think that success is money. When really there's so much more than that: love, family, God, freedom, and too many more things that are really what happiness is all about. Lately I've been going through some stuff. I just had a knee surgery which was to remove loose cartilage since I had popped my knee cap out and back into place. This whole thing then resulted in me having to take pain killers, which I would wake up frequently in the night to take. When I would do this I would be half asleep and eventually I woke up with my chest throbbing. The next day when it was still like this I went to the ER. They came to the conclusion that one of my pills hadn't gone down all the way and made a tube very distressed or something like that. It's been a few days since that and my chest is doing better, but my tummy has been a bit queasy and stuff. Now you probably think I'm just rambling, but I'm not. This all relates to a very important point. And before I get to it I have to relate to another story. Now I'm betting most of you have either watched the movie or read the book Unbroken. And if you haven't you should since they are both terrific. But anyways it's about a man named Louis Zamperini. So this is a long story so I'm going to tell one little story within his life. It was World War 2 and Louie was in the Air Force at the time and on one of his missions his plane went down and everyone on board but himself and two other men lived through the crash into the Pacific Ocean. They where in their lifeboat which was surrounded by sharks, and had been in there for a very long time (the total time they spent on the raft was 47 days). And suddenly they hear the sound of a plane and they quickly tried to get it's attention by shooting flares, dyeing the water around the raft, and waving their arms. The plane sees them and quickly swoops back and begins to fire at them, turns out it was a Japanese pilot. And as they threw themselves into the water to avoid the bullets the sharks sprang at them at their chance to finally eat the tired and starved men. And to think that not that long ago Louie had been in the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics! He was an Olympian for crying out loud, who was now going through a terrible ordeal that worsens as you read/watch Unbroken. I often think about this particular moment of Zamperini's struggle, of how terrifying and hard it must of been to somehow escape imminent death. And really it puts everything into perspective. That even though I feel crappy and especially since me being a runner, I am unable to even walk more than a few feet down the hall, I'm still not in a situation as bad as that of Louis Zamperini. Which is really why I think people share these types of stories to put things into perspective with the rest of the world. Whether it's a drug addiction story or even something social like being bullied, it really just puts a bit of perspective into the lives of everyone. Which I think is truly amazing, that from other's stories, our live's problems can be overcome knowing that it's not the most worse thing to happen to us. This can help us to be more positive in situations and even to power through them and never give up.
To a joke there's usually a punchline, the ending which gets the listener to hopefully laugh. This is the same thing for most movies, books, and conversations. For example in the movie The Wizard of Oz is about a girl named Dorthy who travels through the wonderful land of Oz, but the "punchline" or the theme, deeper meaning, moral... is that "There's no place like home". And throughout the movie she learns this little thing by seemingly being no where near home. It's just like a friend who tells you a story that seems like there's so many details and dumb little add-ons that the story will never end. They go on so long that you may begin to wonder if there even is a "punchline" or if they just decided to share their whole life story when really you could of just saw it on their Instagram or Snap chat. So now to my point, that there's almost always relevance to things. And that I hope throughout my writings I try to bring relevance and that it's not just something pointless like what I ate today or something along those lines. I want what I say to be relevant to life in general and really this whole thing is just an explanation to why I called my site It's All Relevant. I'd like to end with this, that with a strong relevance or "point" to a subject there can be major impact. Whether the point is from a sword or a small conversation anyone can jab a hole or an idea into someone. And I'm not necessarily calling for action (especially for you to go and jab a sword into someone), I'm just making a point.
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AuthorChloe Miller is an athletic girl who loves running and Nordic skiing. She also enjoys playing Uno and hanging out with her family. Archives
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