Personal+Mission+Statement

Over the Christmas break I kind of had a realization of how blessed I am. I had a hard and damaging personal experience I guess you could say. I felt like things really couldn't get worse, that my story was the saddest of the saddest and I was basically just filled with self pity.

I was really overwhelmed with the idea that things couldn't and wouldn't get better.

I went to church with my best friend the Sunday before Christmas because I had slept over the night before, and they go to church regularly. Now I'm not one to push religion so don't take this the wrong way, it'll all make sense further down the page.

So anyways... I used to go to church almost every Sunday just because something about it made me feel happy and fulfilled, like not in the way you would think like "I'm happy because the lord is with me." No. I just felt really grateful when I was there, I got to see how peoples lives have been affected, got to hear about stories of people who had a way worse life then me, I got to be inspired.

I only went to church because it made me feel like a good person and made me so thankful that I wasn't like the people who had gone broke, who had some type of illness, that I wasn't like the people who had someone they love die. I had stopped going though because in myself I got busy, pushed it off, just found reasons to not go.

But when I went the priest talked of how there was this mum and she had 3 kids, a boy and 2 girls all under 12 her husband had left her and she had just found out her one daughter has Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. A type of Cancer that starts in blood-forming tissue, such as the bone marrow, and causes large numbers of abnormal blood cells to be produced and enter the bloodstream.

I felt awful. Here I was moping about something that could be fixed and there's a family who was probably going to lose a child, a sister, just a baby.

It made me think about how life is so short, how much time I've wasted, how much I've taken for granted.

So my mission statement is :

==To find happiness, fulfillment, and value in living, I will seek out and experience all of the pleasures and joys that life has to offer. My core values are not limitations restraining me on this hedonistic quest for fun. Rather, they provide a framework for identifying, pursuing, and achieving those pleasures that last the longest and are the most satisfying. The greatest joy of all is being worthy of the respect and admiration of family, friends, and business associates==