Resolution

In the name of the New Year I’m going to ask you to do something, to show you something that I have learned in my time here.  Open a new page in your Internet browser.  Go to Google maps and type in your address.  Watch as the huge world spins and zooms in to find your location, passing by all of the other countries, states, cities, and houses, finally landing on your small front porch.   The web of roads and highways untangles slowly to reveal the scenery of your life, a small scenery in comparison to the big world that you just whirled by.  And that is exactly it: you only live in a small part of the huge world that we are all apart of.  You are only a small part of the world we live in.  As of 2012 you are one of 7.046 billion other human beings.  If you want, open another page and look up the population clock and watch as the number of people born today continues to go up and up with every second, showing more people beginning to live in this huge world with you and me.  I really believe that that is so important to see and to realize.  I am just a tiny percentage of this world; my city back in the US is just a small part of my country, which still only makes up a section of the world.  What I’m trying to get at is that you and I are just miniscule pieces of the big picture.  This slice of truth has helped me look past so many moments this year that could have whirled me away into an unnecessarily dramatic and stressed mindset. 

When I look at life through this perspective, thinking about the billions of other people walking on this earth, I realize that while my problems may feel big and important, they are not affecting anyone but me.  Realizing that I ask myself, then why the heck are they affecting me?  And I don’t mean to say that all of the problems in this world should be cast aside and not taken seriously, I’m talking about the mindless worries and temporary hiccups in life.  There are people all over this huge world worrying about things that wont be relevant to them this time next year, or maybe even next week.  And this New Year I am going to try to be one of those people who isn’t.  I am going to try to be one of those people that always remembers that life goes on for everyone as well as for me and that I have no reason to worry about something that is not affecting anyone else.

I invite you to join me and remember the rest of this beautiful world.