Being a better me.

     You know I never know just exactly what I am going to write about, or think about the title until I am done writing.
It's a curious matter but to be honest, I don't mind it at all.  But thats not what I am doing right now; I guess I should be venting, and thats sadly exactly what I feel like doing.  But I think I'll let my train of thought take a turn for the better today, and stay on the positive side of field. 
     People take for granted just how much we have these days, and believe you me, I would be the first to raise a guilty hand here.  Most figure that no one situation is the same, so why should we compare our circumstances to others?  On a regular day, I would be the first to bicker and moan about rules, limitations, things I don't have but could, and any other small instances of minor misfortune that happen to cross my path.  I am a whiner, a complainer, a skeptic, a critic, and most of all a hypocrite; in essence most youth these days are.  So what makes each one of us so special, that we should make others feel obligated to comply to our selfish and unnecessary wants and needs?  Who knows?  I know that I don't. 
     What I am really trying to get at is that I should be thankful for everything that I have, and not just because there are others with less, but because I've been given anything at all.  God didn't have to put me here, but he did.  Life didn't have to hand me my own share of obstacles and adversity, but it did.  I am who I am because of it all; and because of that not only am I whiner, a complainer, a skeptic, a critic, and a hypocrite, but I am spontaneous, joyful, funny, happy, loving, and most of all, grateful.  We need to realize that WE are not a coincidence and that we all have a purpose, so lets make the best of it.
     "Your time has come to pick the road that you walk in this tale."             - Claudio Sanchez
 
So I hope we can all take something away from these words that I've recorded, and use that something for the better. 
      Good hunting friends, - Austin