Church lessons: Don’t be too prideful!

I learned the other day at church, that being too prideful is a bad thing. I already knew this, but I didn’t realize how guilty I was of it.

We’ve all been there. Walking down a hallway at school and making a snap judgment based on the appearance of some peer. You could make the assumption that they are a whore, slut, jerk, or something else. But isn’t a judgment like that putting them down? Does it mean that you’re better than that other person? Of course it doesn’t. But sometimes I’ve been there and thought that.

Being too prideful is hard to admit sometimes. Sometimes people are guilty of not being able to apologize to somebody. For me, an apology is easy. It admits that you were wrong when you give a person one. I don’t have a problem giving out apologies . But being too prideful will stop you from giving them out. It will make you think you weren’t wrong, and that everything you’ve done has been the correct way.

The other day my brother was texting this person who I considered a nasty person. He was saying that he was just their friend, but I didn’t understand. We were better than that, so quit talking to them. But in all honesty…Nobody is better than anybody so get rid of that misconception that superiority over another exists…it doesn’t.

Stuff I do when I’m bored

I downloaded Windows Live Essentials Beta just a bit ago. I like it. It puts in my Facebook junk on my Windows Live Feed. I’m going to be all connected. I’m using Windows Live Writer to write this…so nothing on here is going to be interesting. I just want to see how it works.

All week, most of my friends have been going to sleep at like 1030. So, I’ve been forced to stay up and use the internet to keep me company.

The internet isn’t as much fun as people. =(

Life and all it's glory...

I mentioned bringing one of my friends along on that trip that not everyone gets along with. This caused an argument with a girl going and resulted in me saying something bad about how she was acting. But she pretty much said i was a liar, when she didn't know the entirety of the situation. I apologized to her for the name calling several times and it took her a day to get over it. She has yet to apologize to me for calling me a liar. But, I suppose I'll just suck it up and not expect one seeing how a friendship with her means more to me this an apology from this argument.

I think I have all of my paperwork done for my college and handed in and whatnot. I just got home from doing that, and now i'm waiting for a delicious Totino's pizza to get done from cooking. It'll be my lunch. I normally would have eaten out, but I'm trying to save some money and eat healthier. (A totinos pizza is healthier than Mcdonalds I'm sure =) )

Have you ever?

Sometimes you don't know how lucky your life is. Making people happy who need some cheering up is something I find enjoyable. Just a random smile from a stranger can mean the world to someone.

I work as a cashier most of the time, and that gives me several opportunities to make someone's trip to the store, hour, or even day. I try my best to put on a smile, ask if they need help, and even joke around a little. Making people smile or laugh is a huge reward in my opinion.

The store I work at has some of the best customers ever. I have made several friends working there young and old. Some customers know me by name and they like to toss jokes back at me as I pick on them.

I remember one time I was eating out at a restaurant, and my waitress seemed stressed or upset. She did a great job getting our order and stuff, but she still seemed preoccupied, so my attempt to make her day better was to give her a compliment. I said she had nice eyes. (I wasn't meaning to flirt...) She smiled and seemed happier that she was serving our table.

I know sometimes I can be a jerk to my friends or annoying or whatever, but I also know I do a lot of nice things for them. I clean up after them, pick up the house, buy things...and I don't expect a thank you.
I also realize that they do nice things for me too.

This blog really doesn't have any point except that I enjoy being nice, and I think my goal in life is just to make a difference in other people lives, maybe make them enjoy it more. I want to be the guy that someone comes to for advice. Someone trustworthy.

Doing stuff!

On Friday, I decided to go to the lake. I asked my friends to go, but they decided they'd rather do nothing at home instead of going to the lake. So, I went with my parents, which I knew would be boring, but, just in case one of these days they decide to die on me, I'd have at least one more memory of hangin' out with them. They both love the lake a lot, so... I wanted to make another memory of it.

That night, I hung out with my sister and my nieces because they were camping down the cove. We went swimming and stuff and it was an alright time. By the time it was ready for bed, I layed down and read part of my book. I woke up at 7 o'clock the next morning due to the hot summer sun shining onto my face melting it into a state of alertness....

I went home and got a couple of my friends up and they went with me to eat breakfast. At that time, I got a phone call seeing if we wanted to go to Tangynika zoo, which I'm sure is spelled completely wrong. We pet some Giraffes, Lemurs, and tortoises. It was a pretty great time. =)

We bought an Ouija board that day also. We went home and it failed to do anything. We all pitched in about 10 bucks for it, and it failed us...stupid board, but then!

the next day we tried it again...and either our imaginations got the best of us, or our house is really haunted with 7 nice ghosts with the coolest one being named tez whose an 8 year old ex-slave.

The board spoke to us and it was pretty entertaining for a few hours.