Sabbath!

Life is amazing :) I love sabbath. SOO much today started out a bit rushed ( Anna and I ended up eating ramen on the way to church) Then we were being random but helpful *I think* in Sabbath school (Okay so most of the time we just sat there but we were there for moral support!! :) Church was interesting. (Hospitality is key... I should learn to do it more often... more on this later...) Then Lunch in the cafe with friends...food quality was lacking but the company was great :) a certain person has no idea what I did to his phone mmwahaha :) then we went on a walk to the imagination station and back, with plenty of laughter, joking and smiles all around. then i crashed for about 30 min only to be encouraged to go to Heldzingers and play games. I drove there thinking that I wouldn't stay long, but what can I say, it was too much fun and was much more interesting than homework or being a loner so we stayed there for a while playing games like "Honey if you love me...", Never have I ever, and Psychiatrist,  It was great.

But speaking of games. The game "Honey if you love me won't you please please smile" is lots of fun but there are some general tips for avoiding smiling. It has been said that the Eyes are the portals to the soul, and while I wouldn't say it that dramatically, they are pretty key. If i avoid eye contact, then i can tune out their voices and in general/ most cases avoid smiling all together. The only problem with this technique is that some would call it cheating, and I suppose it is, but at the same time I had no desire to be asking people to smile at me, so I stubbornly held my base and got to avoid that awkward situation. :P

In other news  it was plenty of fun observing people as they played though. You can learn a lot about people, namely positive things, when they let their guards down and are enjoying themselves. And tonight especially I saw so many good traits of people that don't always have a chance to shine due to the dullness of daily life. (examples being, I know one person who has a crush or at least interest in another, I know of one person who can stand his ground - more so than I thought previously, I know a few people who know me maybe a little better than I thought (naming things that I do enjoy, yet wouldn't be first to admit), and I watched  someone who was introvertedly  inclined bloom and relax with a bunch of strangers (well at least I was a stranger he might have known others...) but anyways at the end of the day people are interesting and watching them throughout the day can tell you a lot about them.

Couple the above lessons with the sermon lesson on hospitality and a person could make a huge difference in visitor dealings at church (and with  life in general) Just imagine it a world where one was naturally inclined to actually took time to know, and observe people, and also be dedicated to change it (for the better of course), how different from our own society and world this "imaginary" world would be. Or let me make this more personal. What If I were take time to look for a need, and then fill it,  how different my life would be.  Simple lessons.

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
Carl Sandburg