All the small things

Today i watched a movie called "The Invention of Lying". Overall, it was a funny movie and it definitely had its philosophical moments. After watching this i started to realize...how extremely anal i can be about life in general. I mean, i don't think its only me, i'm sure majority of the population in this world tends to act the same way. I think every single one of us takes this life for granted (no shit sherlock) and i think that sometimes, even though we know that for a fact, we never change our perspectives. Our priorities remain the same and our emotions overreact in the same way. Every little thing seems to upset us or make us feel unwanted emotions. We overanalyze all the small things in life and we forget about what life is. The amazing wonders of the world pass us by and we just don't care because we're too busy making mundane things into big issues. If we look at it this way, we really only get one chance, we only get one life (yes, there are theories about reincarnation but we're just gonna ignore hypotheticals for now). Someday when we're old reflecting on what we have accomplished in our lives, we'll think back and say, wow, things that we worried about back then really didn't matter. What matters is life, and how grateful we are to have one. To be growing up in a developed country, to have jobs, to reach the last step in maslow's hierarchy of needs--self actualization. All the things that upset me now are absolutely ridiculous. Why i think so much about the stupidest things when i should just take life for what it is. I shouldn't be absorbed in gossip, or people who've hurt me, or people who annoy me. Because these things don't matter, what matters is that i'm here on this earth and i have so much to look forward to. To experience life with open arms and think more optimistically that things will get better, this is nothing. And i know we all have moments when we're uber depressed and we just want to wallow in our pity. But i know when we grow older and we look back upon that wallowing, it'll just be one big joke. So cheers to new beginnings and not letting all the small things upset us.

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