I See It Shining With My Eyes Closed

A lot of highs chool, especially after sophomore year is talk and planning for your future. You hear the word future many times actually and you learn to loathe the word. Everyone asks you about the college that you plan to attend and the job you wish to attain after college. I sit and watch others around me freaking out about their futures, acting as if college graduation is tomorrow. It is not necessarily a bad thing but I feel like I am a laid back person and it can get to me when people freak out about things that are so far away. I ache for those people and only wish that there is something that I can do to change their perspective. The only thing that ever comes to mind is something my pastor told our church. My pastor told me to have faith in the little things and that is exactly what I am trying to do, everyday of my life. I always see people looking at the big things first and freaking out about them. It is like a puzzle I guess. Some people pick random pieces and attempt to put them together unsystematically. The smart people arrange the puzzles according to color and then begin to build the border of edge pieces around the puzzle and continue to systematically put the puzzle together. People need to have faith in the little things and calmly build their lives. The big picture has an uncanny ability to panic people so sometimes, actually most of the time it is best to approach the big picture in small bits as you build towards your ultimate goal. We need to be excited about our future. If we go through a life of panic and anxiety about our future then panic and anxiety will become the only familiarity that we have of our future. We will not embrace it, we will panic and likely never feel as though we are finished building our future. We have our lives, I am breathing, and until I stop I plan to live my life. I do not plan on panicking about my future, that is a waste of time and energy. We have been blessed with a short precious period of time on earth to serve God and I hope that I can look back on my life thinking wow that was fun. As for now I keep on walking towards my seemingly bright and glowing future.