Feb 18, 2007 00:26
Somewhere, even often, we've all resigned from worrying about an issue by thinking, "Oh well, there are people who are much worse off than I am." It's easy to be selfish when you're upset about something, we all do it, but isn't the same true of our happiness? It's true that you should be considerate and humane by focusing on bigger things than yourself, so it's also true that you should do that no matter what's going on in your infinitely tiny (but significant nonetheless) realm of feeling. There are horrible tragedies, genocides, epidemics, poverty, and countless other things that are all too numerous going on whether you're happy, sad, angry, and just not feeling any strong emotion for the moment. So I pray that my drive to take less for myself and give more to those who need it, in every way, is not swayed by anything, but that it only grows in strength, never stopping from here until forever.
But as far as I go, there is someone making me very happy right now. :)