The Icing on the Cake

I think that we, as a whole, get too caught up in the superficial gloss of life. Quite often, I find myself thinking about the future. Where will I go to college? What will I major in? And wait, do I have a minor picked out? What if that's not the best choice? What if I could have done better...? Will I be able to go to med school? It goes on...

While it is important to have some kind of plan, I think I need to just let go...trust that whatever happens will work out.

If you always worry about tomorrow, you will forget to enjoy today.

And while today seems like a bore...while today seems to be just another day...isn't everyday just another..."today"? If you don't settle for "today", you'll just find yourself marking out boxes on the calendar just dreaming about a better tomorrow. A tomorrow that will never come.

So what makes up this happiness that we seek in tomorrow? Is it success? Love? An advancement of ourselves on how others view us? Maybe... Maybe that's what we strive for without even knowing.

But I'd have to say it's the smaller, less significant things that we do everyday that builds our futures. It's taking that extra hour to catch up on your brother's life, it's telling your dad about your daily concerns, it's laughing with your mom about memories from years ago, it's baking brownies with your friend and laughing over silly things.... The others things...what we strive for...those are just the icing on the cake. But how can we enjoy the icing if we have no cake? If we have no foundation?

I think it's time for me to bake a cake. ;)

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