About Life: Another jumble.

Tonight we watched You Can't Take it With You. I haven't laughed so hard in a very long time. Funny how that movie somehow reminds me of my family :) I love this movie. I've seen it several times. I think it has a really good message. This time around, however, I had a few more complaints with some of the particulars of the message. It doesn't really teach about the principle of hard work, or the satisfaction that comes of having a job well done, or the importance of education. Haha, I'm rather a picky movie watcher, eh? But it does teach one really important lesson, and in doing so it always makes me step back and take a good hard look at my life, about what I'm doing, and about what is important enough to me to spend time on it. If you haven't seen it, I would totally recommend it. It is so funny. Plus, it has Jimmy Stuart in it. And anything he is in automatically is on my want to see list. He's so great. (In addition, almost all the characters in George Bailey are in it as well-Mr. Potter, Pa Bailey, young George Bailey, "it's no skin off my nose!" guy, "Here they come!" lady, and a bunch of others. Super great). 

Anyways. Back to my point. This movie shows the importance of doing things you love (I actually have some thoughts on that. I don't know how much I agree with this. But I'll save those for later.), and even more important-of not letting things like making money take time away from the people you love. Having friends--having people love you--is worth more than all the money you could make sitting in an office all day. How much do we think about love in our every day lives? Haha, not the romantic kind of love that I'm always trying to figure out and find-not that kind. The Christlike love that we should have for the people living this life along side us. Those we know and those we don't. Those in our family especially. It just got me thinking: What do I do to cheer  up the just a tiny part of the world everyday? What do I do to serve someone, to help bring a smile to their face? Aren't those things the things that really matter? What do I do to help foster that love? The time I spend in my scriptures? In prayer to my Father in Heaven? "Wherefore my beloved brethren, pray unto the father with all the energy of heart, that ye may be filled with this love that He hath bestowed upon all who are true followers of Christ" (Moroni 7:48).  I want to re focus my life on charity.

And it's not about big acts of amazing service everyday. It's about the tiny ones. Saying a kind word to a friend, giving a sincere compliment to a family member, taking a little extra time out of your schedule to make someone's bed, taking time to have a conversation, to tell a child you love them. (I think this mood was very prompted by the opportunity I had to spend time around such beautiful, innocent, sometimes very naughty nieces and nephews :) How I love them!)

And there are my thoughts this evening.

There are a whole lot more. Haha, especially on this funny topic: Why are there so many boy hating songs, but so very few girl hating songs? Maybe I'm just not familiar with them, but it seems like there are waaaay more songs bashing guys than there are bashing girls. And why in the world do I love them so much? How terrible! I'm trying to figure out what emotion I need to express in singing those songs. Because, in all honesty, I don't really hate guys. As much as I pretend sometimes :)

Anyways. Time for bed. Buenas noches! Audios :)