so...
like two months ago I decided to send out a random text message to everyone in my phone asking one question- "What is the biggest thing you have sacrificed in order to help someone else?"
these are the answers I got-
1- "gettin caught by the cops." --past curfew, I promise I am not friends with criminals...lol... he walked a friend home cause she felt unsafe and was caught after curfew hours... those suck for teens!
2- "I don;t know if this counts but one year around Christmas my ward went up to flag or Payson and cut down a bunch of Christmas trees for needy families."
3- "I have no clue obviously not that much if I can't remember"
4- "I don't know. Why?"
5- "my home" I was confused so I said what and he replied "for my mom" moving cross states sucks!
6- "Uh? I have given up my social life to try and help someone by just being with them... but in the end they died. but I think it helped them while they were alive"
7- "Prolly give up my whole summer just 2 help my mom and our respitecare provider dat just got over cancer with the kids"
well I got 7 answers... and some I was just like wow I could kiss them right on the cheek but others were sad... I did explain the ones I would know cause I am friends with them and you wouldn't as a reader cause well you have no idea who they are...
I want to say I appreciate any sacrifice given for the world or for someone else. And we don't have to sacrifice huge things to be good people... I mean I know that number 4 is a fantastic wonderful friend... and all around is an amazing person who has never in my life I have seen been mean to anyone. So I wasn't showing who is better here... I was giving examples as more of a... way to prob your mind. Think about what you have given up in your life to help someone else... no matter how little or big be proud that you care enough to give. And try to do more if possible...
Thank you to the friends that did reply I loved hearing it all... =)
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Cancer Hats...
So the church I go to does this once a month humanitarian project thing! lol Well I went last time and learned how to make yarn hats that are donated to people with Cancer! It is incredibly easy process that is time consuming. However I enjoy it and I can sit and watch TV (the few times I ever do...) and easily finish a hat in about two hours... so far I have only made one... and I need to learn to finish it the right way... however I'm just learning and am very excited about this. I am willing to make a bunch and donate them also... I think I might sell them too... 5 bucks all profits go to the Heifer Organization. (If you want to know about Heifer there is a link on the right side..) anyway it's something... when I make a couple of them I'll put up pictures... lol anyone wanting to be involved with this let me know.. I'll see what I can do to help.
So I am excited...
the post before this the Law of Garbage Trucks, I have to admit I thought was just a cool story that someone had made up... Well I posted the story because I believed it had amazing life lessons that were told in a simple way and I just LOVE IT!
well I got commented on that post from a man named Chris who informed me it's a real thing and it's an entire organization...
it amazed me and I checked out the cites and the author's blog, David J. Pollay. Well I just wanted to set that strait and I encourage anyone who reads this to go check out the cites. It's really cool. I'm still on them both right now.. and I am reading more but here is the link's and I'll link the main cite on the right too...
The Blog--
http://davidjpollay.typepad.com
The web cite--
http://www.bewareofgarbagetrucks.com/home.htm
well I got commented on that post from a man named Chris who informed me it's a real thing and it's an entire organization...
it amazed me and I checked out the cites and the author's blog, David J. Pollay. Well I just wanted to set that strait and I encourage anyone who reads this to go check out the cites. It's really cool. I'm still on them both right now.. and I am reading more but here is the link's and I'll link the main cite on the right too...
The Blog--
http://davidjpollay.typepad.com
The web cite--
http://www.bewareofgarbagetrucks.com/home.htm
Thursday, July 24, 2008
The Law of the Garbage Truck
(this was an email I got it's a forward and I love it)
One day I hopped in a taxi and we took off for the airport. We were driving in the right lane when suddenly a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his breaks, skidded, and missed the other car by just inches!
The driver of the other car whipped his head around and started yelling at us. My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. And I mean, he was really friendly.
So I asked, "Why did you just do that? This guy almost caused an accident and sent us to the hospital!" This is when my taxi driver taught me what I now call, "The Law of the Garbage Truck."
He explained that many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, full disappointment and rage. As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it and sometimes they'll dump it on you. Don't take it personally. Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. Don't pick up their garbage and spread it to other people in your life, whether at work, at home, or to people that you don't even know on the streets.
Always remember that good people do not let garbage trucks take over their day. Life's too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so.....
"Love the people who treat you right and forgive the ones who don't."
One day I hopped in a taxi and we took off for the airport. We were driving in the right lane when suddenly a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his breaks, skidded, and missed the other car by just inches!
The driver of the other car whipped his head around and started yelling at us. My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. And I mean, he was really friendly.
So I asked, "Why did you just do that? This guy almost caused an accident and sent us to the hospital!" This is when my taxi driver taught me what I now call, "The Law of the Garbage Truck."
He explained that many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, full disappointment and rage. As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it and sometimes they'll dump it on you. Don't take it personally. Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. Don't pick up their garbage and spread it to other people in your life, whether at work, at home, or to people that you don't even know on the streets.
Always remember that good people do not let garbage trucks take over their day. Life's too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so.....
"Love the people who treat you right and forgive the ones who don't."
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Linked to Worlds Bleeds?
Hey if you have a blog that you want to be linked from this site in the supporters section... let me know... I wouldn't mind adding more names down there... but just let me know.
Oh both mine and Mike's blogs are linked down there too... just click on it! =)
Oh both mine and Mike's blogs are linked down there too... just click on it! =)
Always Smile...
Smiles are contagious. Help someone in a bad mood and simply smile at them. You will never ever know how much you have touched them with just a smile.
And not only a smile but any action at all could touch someone.
Personal story...
I was at Fry's with my mom shopping... and the entrance has potted flowers for sell around it inside... like right as you walk in...
So one of the pots was on its side and I stopped and picked it up and placed it upright... then got up and walked quickly to my mom... Well this guy walked past me as I was picking up the flower and he smiled. Big smile.
It just struck me... I honestly didn't think picking up the flower pot was that big of a deal and anyone could be affected by it... It just surprised me to see him smiling at me because I picked it up... or at least thats what it seemed like to me...
I'm sharing this because you never really know how your actions will affects others... and some people don't think about it, but I am asking you to think about how what you do affects those around you.
Spread Peace
Brooke
Smiles are contagious. Help someone in a bad mood and simply smile at them. You will never ever know how much you have touched them with just a smile.
And not only a smile but any action at all could touch someone.
Personal story...
I was at Fry's with my mom shopping... and the entrance has potted flowers for sell around it inside... like right as you walk in...
So one of the pots was on its side and I stopped and picked it up and placed it upright... then got up and walked quickly to my mom... Well this guy walked past me as I was picking up the flower and he smiled. Big smile.
It just struck me... I honestly didn't think picking up the flower pot was that big of a deal and anyone could be affected by it... It just surprised me to see him smiling at me because I picked it up... or at least thats what it seemed like to me...
I'm sharing this because you never really know how your actions will affects others... and some people don't think about it, but I am asking you to think about how what you do affects those around you.
Spread Peace
Brooke
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
The Host
The Host by Stephenie Meyer has been my latest book discovery. I have just finished chapter 5 and I couldn't go on until I said something about this one paragraph. It was the kind of paragraph you re-read at least 3 times because it is like "BAM!" it hit home. It truly is the most honest true thing about human lives today in one paragraph I have EVER read.
I haven't read it all the way through and already I am in love with this book. I want to share this one paragraph, but first I think you need a tiny tiny bit of plot. The host is a human body the parasite is an alien. So far this book has touched so much on the value of life itself. I am simply amazed. The paragraph that has amazed me comes from the alien inside this woman's body, it is the alien's thoughts. By the way it's page 47 if you wanted to look for yourself.
"But we were not wasteful. We did make whatever we took better, more peaceful and beautiful. And the humans were brutish and ungovernable. They had killed one another so frequently that murder had been an accepted part of life. The various tortures they devised over the few millennia they'd lasted had been too much for me; I hadn't been able to bear even the dry official overviews. Wars had raged over the face of nearly every continent. Sanctioned murder, ordered and viciously effective. Those who lived in peaceful nations had looked the other way as members of their own species starved on their doorstep. There was no equality to the distribution of the planet's bounteous resources. Most vile yet, their offspring - the next generation, which my mind nearly worshiped for their promise- had all too often been victims of heinous crimes. And not just at the hands of strangers, but at the hands of the caretakers they were entrusted to. Even the huge sphere of the planet had been put into jeopardy through their careless greedy mistakes. No one could compare what had been and what was now and not to admit that Earth was a better place thanks to us."
I haven't read it all the way through and already I am in love with this book. I want to share this one paragraph, but first I think you need a tiny tiny bit of plot. The host is a human body the parasite is an alien. So far this book has touched so much on the value of life itself. I am simply amazed. The paragraph that has amazed me comes from the alien inside this woman's body, it is the alien's thoughts. By the way it's page 47 if you wanted to look for yourself.
"But we were not wasteful. We did make whatever we took better, more peaceful and beautiful. And the humans were brutish and ungovernable. They had killed one another so frequently that murder had been an accepted part of life. The various tortures they devised over the few millennia they'd lasted had been too much for me; I hadn't been able to bear even the dry official overviews. Wars had raged over the face of nearly every continent. Sanctioned murder, ordered and viciously effective. Those who lived in peaceful nations had looked the other way as members of their own species starved on their doorstep. There was no equality to the distribution of the planet's bounteous resources. Most vile yet, their offspring - the next generation, which my mind nearly worshiped for their promise- had all too often been victims of heinous crimes. And not just at the hands of strangers, but at the hands of the caretakers they were entrusted to. Even the huge sphere of the planet had been put into jeopardy through their careless greedy mistakes. No one could compare what had been and what was now and not to admit that Earth was a better place thanks to us."
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
The Chambers of a Human Heart
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It’s all the same, in the chambers of a human heart
In the chambers of the human heart we hide our deepest fears.
In the chambers of a human heart we tear ourselves apart.
In the chambers of human heart does hatred fill.
In the chambers of a human heart is where the pain resides.
In the chambers of a human heart is where our sorrow lie.
In the chambers of the human heart is where the most could ever go wrong.
In the deepest chamber of the human heart resides an emotion, so strong it can conquer any other pain that traps our heart within.
We only have to try and find it beneath the chambers of pain.
We need to release this emotion that’s hardly seen anymore.
Love is needed by this world.
(I'm a poet, kinda. I write poetry a lot. I just gotta share once in a while. Enjoy
Brooke)
It’s all the same, in the chambers of a human heart
In the chambers of the human heart we hide our deepest fears.
In the chambers of a human heart we tear ourselves apart.
In the chambers of human heart does hatred fill.
In the chambers of a human heart is where the pain resides.
In the chambers of a human heart is where our sorrow lie.
In the chambers of the human heart is where the most could ever go wrong.
In the deepest chamber of the human heart resides an emotion, so strong it can conquer any other pain that traps our heart within.
We only have to try and find it beneath the chambers of pain.
We need to release this emotion that’s hardly seen anymore.
Love is needed by this world.
(I'm a poet, kinda. I write poetry a lot. I just gotta share once in a while. Enjoy
Brooke)
Friday, July 4, 2008
Failure
It's okay to cry especially when you fail, male or female, remember that. Life is too tuff not to cry. Cry and get it all out. And always be sure to know that no matter who you are someone loves you and you can talk to them anytime. holding back emotions can hurt yourself. It really can. Honestly I think everyone should take a self improvement class. I seriously do. Try to improve who are everyday. Set goals, write them down, succeed. I know anyone can succeed as long as they try. The impossible won't always be impossible. So never quit.
I have an idea I would like you to think about, as small toddlers we had to learn to walk. We would try and try so hard but always fall. we weren't born walking. We had to learn it. And we failed. Every single human being failed at least once at walking. We fell hard sometimes because we couldn't walk. I want to say congratulations to everyone who can walk or talk you didn't give up. You failed and failed but learned from those failures to succeed. Just imagine how much mankind wouldn't be able to do if we all just gave up on if it was too hard.
We were born to fail, and then to learn from those failures.
So a quote from ALexander Graham Bell, the claimed inventor of the telephone,
"When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."
Don't let your failures get in the way. They really are a learning exprience. When you "fail" it's more like you learned how not to do something. =)
Just remember failures are good if you learn from them and do better next time.
Peace and love always
Brooke
I have an idea I would like you to think about, as small toddlers we had to learn to walk. We would try and try so hard but always fall. we weren't born walking. We had to learn it. And we failed. Every single human being failed at least once at walking. We fell hard sometimes because we couldn't walk. I want to say congratulations to everyone who can walk or talk you didn't give up. You failed and failed but learned from those failures to succeed. Just imagine how much mankind wouldn't be able to do if we all just gave up on if it was too hard.
We were born to fail, and then to learn from those failures.
So a quote from ALexander Graham Bell, the claimed inventor of the telephone,
"When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."
Don't let your failures get in the way. They really are a learning exprience. When you "fail" it's more like you learned how not to do something. =)
Just remember failures are good if you learn from them and do better next time.
Peace and love always
Brooke
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
YOU CAN'T
Honestly the words "you can't" have been ringing in my ears. After a fight, everything seemed to crash down. Last night was awful, however this blog is not about me. So I won't go into any details, but I do need to say something.
When you are told "you can't" do something, DON'T believe it. never give up on your dreams. So many many people truged through life aimlessly. THey get up go to school/work, home, eat, sleep and then repeat. No purpose, get food on the table, do what they are told because they don't know any different. All around them people telling them "you can't!"
Well guess what I CAN!!! I am not and never will give up on my dreams. Impossible dream, maybe; but I want my dream so bad I'm willing to work forever for that impossible thing. You want to know my dream, my dream is that mankind as a whole gets more accepting, we don't judge others and there is the closet thing to peace in this world. THere will be NO murders, no rapes, no sexual molestation of any kind, nothing bad. Imposible it may seem so but I have to try to do something to fix the awful problems in this world. I have to, I live here and my family lives here and my friends and people I don't even know live on this planet. I can't let it go on how it is continually suffuring, people murdered, people miserable. I hate the pain in this world and I am going to try my hardest to make a difference. I have to.
When you are told "you can't" do something, DON'T believe it. never give up on your dreams. So many many people truged through life aimlessly. THey get up go to school/work, home, eat, sleep and then repeat. No purpose, get food on the table, do what they are told because they don't know any different. All around them people telling them "you can't!"
Well guess what I CAN!!! I am not and never will give up on my dreams. Impossible dream, maybe; but I want my dream so bad I'm willing to work forever for that impossible thing. You want to know my dream, my dream is that mankind as a whole gets more accepting, we don't judge others and there is the closet thing to peace in this world. THere will be NO murders, no rapes, no sexual molestation of any kind, nothing bad. Imposible it may seem so but I have to try to do something to fix the awful problems in this world. I have to, I live here and my family lives here and my friends and people I don't even know live on this planet. I can't let it go on how it is continually suffuring, people murdered, people miserable. I hate the pain in this world and I am going to try my hardest to make a difference. I have to.
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