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Friday, January 3, 2014

SELF-CONSUMPTION

"People who are all wrapped up in themselves make very small packages."
~Ben Franklin~

It's so easy to become self-consumed with our unrequited wants and our fears and our ailments and our limited thinking. We forget to consider our situation from the outside and how blessed we may actually be- what others might give to have some small bit of whatever we may be taking for granted. We whine. We complain. We spend endless hours trying to figure out what to do and what we want and what we're not getting and how we are being wronged.
     Let's get out of ourselves and contribute to the greater good. Let's think about what we have to give and how we can be of service, about how our existence might positively effect the quality of someone else's day, or life. Let's give and then give some more and the give more again. 
Let's live life on purpose and do right by others and stop self-pitying our energy away.

I understand that doing right by others I do right by myself.