Life Lately

     Maybe it’s just me, but life lately has felt so dark and heavy and overwhelming-and I have it easier than many of my friends and family. I had a friend share some pretty heavy stuff with me this week and it just broke my heart that he’s had to go through all of it. I have another friend who is still grieving the loss of her brother and something about that just doesn’t seem fair. Every other friend is struggling with something deeper. A real soul struggle. Right now, the whole world just seems darker, angrier. I don’t want to be a part of that. I want to be a part of the change, part of the reason someone can smile on a hard day. 

    The other day, I got to interact with two customers who were absolutely precious and they really made me stop and think. They said that about five years ago people just kind of lost their humanness. I completely agree. Since COVID, people are less kind, less open, less humane towards one another. The amount of common sense and common decency is depressingly low. I can’t believe how far we’ve drifted down this dark path and I wonder how different our lives would be if a stranger stopped and smiled at us today? How happy would it make someone, if they got complimented on their shoes today? How much can we change the world by simply being kind to those around us, even the strangers at the grocery store? Instead of being so hung up on ourselves, why not make it about living for others? Get a small bouquet of flowers for your mom, make dinner for a friend, make time to spend with your grandparents, text that one friend you haven’t heard from in a while, put the dishes away for your roommate, take the dogs on a walk, pick up that piece of trash for that stranger. When we stop thinking about ourselves so much, our problems get smaller and we can breathe more easily. Jesus came and gave his life in service of others-what an example! Knowing that he didn’t have to do any of what he did, but he chose to why would we not live more like him? More like the one person who owed us nothing, but gave us everything? Don’t get me wrong, dying to your selfishness can be one of the hardest things you can do. Selfishness is a personal struggle of mine. Still, why not fight against yourself and the darkness in the world and be able to look back on your life and feel some sense of satisfaction? Why would you not actively choose to be the reason someone decides that life is worth one more shot? Personally, I would rather live loving the people around me so loudly that they never have to question my love, than to act so nonchalant about others that they are not impacted by anything I do. 

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