Hey Yall,
This post is all about Annie...not really, just her song 'Tomorrow.' I really love the part where the music changes to the Bridge and she starts singing, "When I'm stuck with the day that's grey and lonely, I just stick out my chin and grin and say: The sun will come out tomorrow, so we've got to hang on til tomorrow, come what may. Tomorrow, tomorrow, I'll love ya, tomorrow. You're only a day away."
This has been my philosophy for about a week now. The days are literally grey outside here in Provo and sometimes they're a little lonely while working on homework for hours on end(To counteract that, I highly recommend doing homework in the library. Lots of people pass through there and you can take a break to say hi to a long-lost friend or best friend that just happens to walk through). Despite these "grey and lonely days" I just stick out my chin and grin and say something a little different than Annie. Today! Right now! I can make plans, carry out plans, fail plans, re-plan and have lots of fun doing it!
You see, life is 10% what happens to you and 90% what you make of it. This is especially true in agreement with something we talked about in my Doctrine and Covenants class yesterday. The teacher asked some questions about why God, if he knows what we're going to do before we do it, why does he let us do something wrong? Well, one of the ideas tossed around is that before this life in the pre-mortal existence, we chose what things we would face in this life. Christ told us that it would be hard and that we would have agency, but we accepted the plan anyway. We accepted to face trials, mess up, etc. We also accepted to get back up on our feet, get back on the road and put a smile back on our face. :)
So, the 10% that happens to us was already decided long ago, before our birth. The 90% is how we feel about it and react to it. For as Nephi teaches, "Men are free according to the flesh." Interesting thought, huh?
This post is all about Annie...not really, just her song 'Tomorrow.' I really love the part where the music changes to the Bridge and she starts singing, "When I'm stuck with the day that's grey and lonely, I just stick out my chin and grin and say: The sun will come out tomorrow, so we've got to hang on til tomorrow, come what may. Tomorrow, tomorrow, I'll love ya, tomorrow. You're only a day away."
This has been my philosophy for about a week now. The days are literally grey outside here in Provo and sometimes they're a little lonely while working on homework for hours on end(To counteract that, I highly recommend doing homework in the library. Lots of people pass through there and you can take a break to say hi to a long-lost friend or best friend that just happens to walk through). Despite these "grey and lonely days" I just stick out my chin and grin and say something a little different than Annie. Today! Right now! I can make plans, carry out plans, fail plans, re-plan and have lots of fun doing it!
You see, life is 10% what happens to you and 90% what you make of it. This is especially true in agreement with something we talked about in my Doctrine and Covenants class yesterday. The teacher asked some questions about why God, if he knows what we're going to do before we do it, why does he let us do something wrong? Well, one of the ideas tossed around is that before this life in the pre-mortal existence, we chose what things we would face in this life. Christ told us that it would be hard and that we would have agency, but we accepted the plan anyway. We accepted to face trials, mess up, etc. We also accepted to get back up on our feet, get back on the road and put a smile back on our face. :)
So, the 10% that happens to us was already decided long ago, before our birth. The 90% is how we feel about it and react to it. For as Nephi teaches, "Men are free according to the flesh." Interesting thought, huh?
I think I like the today song better than the tomorrow song : )
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