Thing One

Oh hello!! School has started once more and I am bubbling over with lovely things to tell you. Isn't that exciting? I just know you've been waiting for the semester to pick up again so that you can read all of my blogs. :)

So I have two things to complain about today, which I'll break up into two blogs entitled "Thing One" and "Thing Two." You know, like from The Cat in the Hat. Dr. Suess? :)

The first one really has nothing to with school. At all. But I'm going to relate it to life, so we'll be good.

OK have you seen the "Happy Cows come from California" commercials? Don't they just drive you nuts? If you're a Wisconsinite, that is. Or even just a Midwesterner. Or even just someone who hates California because they always try to steal everyone else's state motto. I mean come on, seriously. Wisconsin is the Dairy State!! California should go off and find something of its own to brag about. My mom was talking smack about California once because she said they can't find their own state slogan and they always try to steal others', like Florida's sunshine and now our milk. Stupid California. And their commercials are misleading; our farmers do NOT leave the cows out in the middle of a huge snowstorm with wolves wandering around and howling nearby. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure this does not actually happen.

Now, how am I going to relate this to life? Life in general is very complicated, I'm sure I don't need to tell any of you that. And sometimes we want to steal other peoples' ideas or take their credit for ourselves. Sometimes we get really hung up on being the best at everything that we run around and try to steal others' glory and take their happiness and success away from them because we want it for ourselves. But this isn't going to give us happiness. What we really need to do is find what *WE PERSONALLY* excel at and concentrate on that. Then everyone can be happy and successful, and besides, the world works best when everyone is using their particular skills and talents to better society. Everyone is good and strong at different things for a reason: we need them all to work together.

I guess I can even relate this to school by telling you to major in/pursue something that truly interests you. Don't worry about money, or what your parents want you to be, or what your friends are doing. Don't go to a school for your boyfriend/girlfriend or because all of your friends in high school made a pact to go there. Go there because it's the right fit for *YOU*. Do what *YOU* want to do, find a career that you will *LOVE*, because there is no career that is useless. And if you're happy, a lower salary is going to be worth it. If you're stuck in a job that you don't really like because you want the money, your life will NOT be happy. Do what you LOVE, and the pieces will fit and you will find your niche in the world!!

And that is my life's lesson for today. Actually I have another one that I will put in the next blog, but still. This is a good, profound one, I think. Enjoy!! :)