Remembering what matters
Today I’m thinking about what really matters.
Sometimes we get so caught up in life that we forget about what life really is. Our jobs, our responsibilities, our bodies, our current circumstances whatever they may be can get in the way sometimes.
What really matters to you?
My family matters to me. Spending time with them. Laughing with my husband, talking to him, touching, and playing. Teaching my daughter about joy. Giving her something to smile about, really smile about. Teaching her what it means to be loved so that she can learn to love. Spending time in nature with them. Taking pictures of eagles, elk, and deer with them. Reading the scriptures with them using stuffed animals and funny voices. Learning together, sleeping together, praying together.
Jobs don’t matter. A clean house doesn’t matter. Having a perfect body doesn’t matter. What the world thinks doesn’t matter.
This is my life and a few of the things that matter to me. We all live different lives though. We all have our own paths to walk. What really matters to you?
What matters to me is spending time with my friends. Life may take you somewhere you never expected to go, and you may not like it. But, wherever you are, your friends are there for you. I love talking with them, making jokes, teasing each other (which is mostly between me and my friend who’s like a brother to me
). But really, they matter so much to me.
What also matters is doing what I love. I really enjoy taking pictures, especially of animals and landscapes. My mom is always telling me to take pictures with my friends, so I’ll carry my memories of them with me, but my camera is mostly filled with nature and landscapes and animals, and maybe the silhouette of a person.
But just doing what you love, what makes you happy, really matters, especially when life takes you down a bumpy path, you’ll get through it by doing what matters to you.
Awesome. Thanks for sharing that.