Hello fellow readers. Recently I have seen, read, and heard many many things that have made me realize that life isn't exactly what I think it is. These things tell me that life should be what I want it to be. That there are a variety of ways that my life could pan out, but I need to go out and seize it. I need to find what I love and pursue it. Between pinterest quotes, inspirational speakers, and Everything Matters I bound and determined to contain with what I am passionate about and live life to the fullest. The book Everything Matters ties in very well to these thoughts.
Everything Matters
by Ron Currie Jr.
Junior Thibodeaux is born with knowledge beyond general human knowledge. He knows things that normal people don't know. Background stories of people he has never met, things that will happen in the future, things that have happened in the past, and the year month day and time that the world is going to end. Junior grows up knowing that in his life time a comet will come rushing in from space and set the world ablaze. Because of this information his struggles with what really matters in life. Why does some little thing he does today matter if the world will end anyway. Why does the death of his father, mother, brother, girlfriend, or his own death matter when in the end they will all end up burned to a crisp? Does anything matter know that he knows the fate of humanity?
Junior has to live with these terrible thoughts looming over his head. He has to weak up everyday known that this day only means one day closer to the end. His choices that he makes based on this knowledge not only affect him, but everyone around him. Every, EVERY, little choice he makes in his life matters. It affects the course his life takes. Junior learns that EVERYTHING matters.
This book struck a particular cord with me. If you know me, you know that I am not always the most positive person. I am more of the glass half empty person. So occasionally I think what does it matter if I am going to die anyway. We are all headed towards the same fate. Death. So what does on more doughnut matter? Why does trying in school or at work matter if I am going to end up dead. And so are you. Now those are very very very dark thoughts. Those thoughts are thought on the days were I am feed up with life and want to sit on the couch and eat ice cream all day. (Sadly I have to many of these days). These feels made me find meaning in this book. This book is just reinforcing the positive thoughts I have on the days I am not negative Nancy. This book and others like it help me to realize that even though my actions may seem small and insignificant to me, the is some effect from them. There is no action without consequence. Every little choice I make resounds on some way. This is something crazy hard to wrap your mind around. It is weird to think about it. It's almost hard to think about it. Life is full of decisions and these decisions change us forever. There are "big decisions" in life that suppose to be the turning points in your life, but really aren't all decisions that way?
I saw this yesterday. I made a "small decision" to walk down the sophomore hallway at school to see if I could find my sister before leaving. Because I made this short detour I walked outside at the exact moment that one of my friends was starting to walk home. Because I was outside at the exact time I was able to give her a ride home. Now this may not be a big difference form her walking, but for agruement's sake what if she go ran over by a car? What if she made it home and the door was locked? All of these little what ifs are different directions are lives could take from one "small decision". No decision you make is small. Everything you do matters. EVERYTHING matters. Remember no decision is so small it wont go with out any side affects, good or bad. No pebble is so small it doesn't ripple the surface.
Remember that EVERYTHING matters and keep reading my friends!
Lindsey
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