Is there something in you that has always, for some unknown reason, been in your heart? Something that you always wanted to do?Or be?
Innate desires. We all have them. Mine happen to be, "be" a disney channel leading lady and a figure skater. I can't really explain why I have this burning passion to be these things but I always have and I feel like I always will.
Have you ever gone shopping and found one thing that stole your attention and you knew that if you didn't buy it you would never forget it and always regret not buying? Happens to me often..but what does this have to do with anything?
Well, let's say life is a store and the merchandise is all of the opportunities of life. Ok, so you go into this store right? and you're looking for something to buy(do). Some things are too high priced(high risk) some things you have no interest in, somethings you've always looked at and wanted to buy(do). Now you have the choice... will you buy(do) the things that you always wanted, or walk away and later regret it?
This is where I am right now in life. I feel what with my high school graduation right around the corner, the store of life is just opening to me. I can do or be whatever I want to be....
So often kids my age think that graduating is the key to all of their dreams.In a way it is, but not without what economic brains like to call, opportunity costs.(Opportunity cost is the cost related to the next-best choice available to someone who has picked among several mutually exclusive choices) Basically the choosing between this or that. Choosing between the things that you've always wanted to do. For some reason, whether it be our human nature or not, we all have those things that we will always want and we won't rest until we have them.
but they won't fill you...the only thing that will is always readily available. The only opportunity cost would be to give up the sinful nature in which you live and turn toward a better way of life.
Lets go back to the store scenario. When you found that thing that you loved and wanted and then bought.... tell me that its not on the floor two weeks later or in the back of your closet, completely forgotten. Ninety percent of having something is the wanting of it. Usually the things we think that we want end up leaving us more empty or unsatisfied. And then we look to new things.
Why is it, that we look at celebrities lives and automatically think that that's what we should be. Rich, beautiful, and glamorous. For some reason we never see that they are some of the most messed up people...ever. Drug addicted, depressed, and empty.
Demi Lovato is one of my favorite teenage celebrities. She recently checked herself into rehab for cutting and eating disorders. She,who always looks so happy and content with her celebrity life, checked into rehab. Tell me then, that money and beauty and fame, satisfy a person.
They don't.
Nothing can and will fill us accept the Lord Jesus Christ. Nothing will satisfy us, no relationship,thing,person,activity,career path,until we are first fully satisfied in the God. So why even look anywhere else? In this new year of 2011, I want to look solely to the Lord for my security,strength and satisfaction.
~simply tammy<3
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