I titled this the song I'm listening to because as always, I find myself trying to live in the moment as much as possible. Right now that means listening to more country music than my coworkers deem acceptable, which makes me laugh. They clown me a lot for that it's an ongoing thing. Work has been insanely good lately, getting back into a routine and finding things to do, and along the way making connections with people I normally wouldn't have. Broadening my circle makes me incredibly happy. The group of people I work with are caring and genuine, and we all are okay with working just because of the decent company. I really like it there.
The past weekend my family and I went to see Noah's Ark, which was literally incredible. I had always doubted the ark in my mind, and that made me struggle with my faith often. The fact that he could fit millions of undiscovered species onto this little boat, from now my understanding that there were only a few thousand- each containing the building blocks for the species we have today. Still an odd concept, but I guess it was one of those things you had to be there to understand. I wanted to bring a thought away from there into this blog today because I have been thinking about it recently. There was a section in the ark dedicated to the "sugar coating" we apply over the ark situation and Christianity itself. When we were children the ark was depicted as cute little animals on a nice little boat adventure in some rain. The graphics in children's bibles are always fairytale-like and sweet with a soft little powder sugar on top. However, the trip was gruesome and violent, and it symbolled the wrath of God and the promise he had made to never do it again.
In 2020 (2021 now) we live in this world that is so easily offended, and it seems like in a few generations those children will have no back bone, and hey maybe they won't need it. However, bad things will always happen, rain will constantly flow down on you for days and life gets rough and hard along the way as we grow. With nothing sugar coated as a child, as I previously stated in one of my blog rants, we'd probably learn to accept hardship better, and not be so easily disappointed when life gets tricky. Work ethic plays into that idea as well for me, with no conflict or confrontation, we become lazy as people. We grow through hard troubles and times, and we develop all sorts of things from that, such as personality, attachment style, beliefs, attitude, pretty much everything that makes you YOU.
Possibly going through hard times is what made me a pessimistic person, but I'm working on that and it doesn't necessarily have to be that way. Just accept that tough things happen, because inevitably they always will. You just get to choose how you perceive it.
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