Attitude

I am taking a class called History and Systems of Psychology. I think the title explains how exciting this class is. In the beginning of the semester I would dread this class but now I kind of look forward to it! On Monday we were talking about Victor Frankl who uses logo therapy, anyways I won't get much into the psychology side but he was in concentration camps during the Holocaust and has a lot of insight. One quote I really liked was this:
"Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." There are times when life just sucks and it seems like nothing is working out how you planned. This semester I have really learned the impact of attitude. People always say fake a smile and pretty soon it will become a genuine one. Maybe this works sometimes but when you go through a really hard time sometimes a smile isn't enough. There are times when you just need to wake up and say out loud to yourself, "today is going to be a great day." Whatever  happens you just have to remind yourself that today was supposed to be great. The only way I got out of "the dumps" was having a complete attitude change. 
Another thing Frankl talked about was perspective. A recent widow came to him and described how depressed she is. He put it into perspective by asking her if she would rather her husband dealt with the pain of losing her? Would she rather be the one who passed on leaving the sorrows to her husband? And does her husband really want her to be suffering the way she is? This put things into perspective for me and I am kind of grateful I am the one who was broken up with...sounds weird but I think it would be harder to break up with someone. What if you feel you made a mistake, do you go back to them? Realize you ruined things and leave them? Continue to be friends with them? Where is the line? At least I don't have all of these questions in my head. And I am glad I was the one hurt because I don't think I could have done that to him. And now I can't think of any cool way to end this entry...

Naming

The only way I thought of the title for my blog was because I went through my Itunes and found a song I liked. This one is "The Time" by Black Eyed Peas, which is a really good running song btw. I am so bad at naming things and once I think of a name or title I always think its stupid after. I have no idea how I am going to name my kids. Maybe I will just change their names every couple years when I get sick of their old name. Just kidding, I don't want to cause an identity crises in my children's life. Like right now, I just heard a lyric in a song my roommate is playing that said, "no one said it would be easy." I kind of like that name for a blog. How do you change the title? :) Anyways, I am going to keep this title and hopefully I will end up liking it.