Evolution

Don't fret dear friends, this is not a debate on Darwin and his theories. This is a more personal discussion of evolution. There are a fairly large group of people I know who view evolution (much like feminism) as a dirty word. And you all have read on here before of the kind of girl I once was. Let's just call it: unpleasant.

And, for some of those people who knew me during that time or even knew of me they can't shake their opinion. Some of these same people I spend a lot of time with to this day and they can't wrap their mind around the way I have evolved. And there is no better word to describe it. You know that old saying if you keep doing what you've always done, you'll keep getting what you've always got. Well at some point in the last 3 years, I stopped doing what I'd always done.

That's not to say that I am a whole new person. But I am evolving everyday. I do not equate evolving with changing your routine but it makes it a hell of a lot easier. If you surround yourself with the same people, places and things for the rest of your life, you set yourself up for complacency. Now, my husband isn't afraid of much but that word scares the shit out of him. And I think it should scare all of us. When I come face to face with God one day he doesn't want to hear that I was "complacent" in this life. I believe that is the opposite of what he wants for us. He wants us moving mountains and being a better us every day when our feet hit the floor.

I would like to take everyone with me as I grow, learn and change. But everyone evolves at their own pace and sadly some people never evolve. Now on the flip side of that I do believe I have planted the seed of  evolution in the lives of people around me like my mother and granny. I may not change their view on things but by sharing the way I see something, it at least gets them thinking about it.

It is the mark of an educated man to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
-Aristotle

The moral of the story is, you don't have to just be "okay" with who you've always been. You can start right now being a better you. A more mature, evolved, educated, cultured, well-rounded you. If you take care of your little red wagon and trust everyone else to take care of theirs then we may just get somewhere. At 23 years old I'm still not who I want to be but I'm closer than I was yesterday.
I will leave you with this quote one of my college classmates posted on facebok the other day which got me thinking about all of this:

It is people; their ideas of money and how they equate it with happiness. However, without physical money the idea of money making one happy could not exist. Without "material" we would be more apt to concentrate on the "nonmaterial"-our spirits and minds. We are lost. The whole human species is lost. There are a few who are mad, crazy, ate up with some sort of Truth be it music, art, literature, ...love...something! And those are the ones who truly live. There still could be a revolution. Our minds have been dormant for far too many years. Something somewhere will happen, something will be said and that spark will ignite and their souls will catch on fire and the flame will be seen for miles and miles.
-the sermon

And this kick-ass picture was done by my lovely sister.