So, I’ve met this guy, who says that love is what makes life, Life.

Last night, I met this other guy, who lives his life to serve Jesus Christ.

They happen to know each other, even though me meeting the second guy was completely random.

Anyway I was thinking, isn’t that essentially the same thing?

Devoting your life to believing in love vs devoting your life to believing in all your God’s done to redeem your sins.

I mean, I don’t really see the distinction. They’re both intangible manifestations of goodwill and positivity and belief.

And essentially, you could say that believing in Jesus Christ boils down also to love (given that He did all He did out of love), which in turn, you know, makes the world go round.

So I’ve been quite a frequent visitor on MLIG recently, and came across this:

“Today, I was hitchiking up to a mountain to go snowboarding and a middleaged man in a jeep picked me up. We talked about how finances should never stop you from doing what you want and believe in (me being quite limited in that area). As I walked away he called me back over, said good luck, and handed me $100, then disappeared. There is hope for random acts of kindness. Pay it forward. MLIG

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When I first found it I read through about 5 pages and got really excited and happy with all the love and the hope and the faith and the unicorns. A couple of days and ten or so visits later, the sameness of it all struck me, and I kind of began to wonder about how everyone could get caught up in such seemingly small, trivial things. I guess I kind of just got used to the same old stories being repeated over and over again in varying styles. Then I realised I was being stupidly cynical, and it isn’t like those people are being dramatic, they just wanted to celebrate whatever they were feeling in that moment. Which is a massively good thing, because I think people should always celebrate how they are feeling if they want to. (Having said that though, it also struck me how many of those posts are about people being pretty or having boyfriends (or girlfriends) or about being fat. Maybe it’s because most of the people who approve for/vote for the posts are people of the same mindset of thinking about ugliness/prettiness as a large part of the definition of yourself, or maybe it’s because getting a compliment about your looks puts most people (who post on MLIG) on an immediate natural high, but I guess I’m discovering again how important appearances can be to people. Sorry, I’m rambling.)

Anyway I read the one above, and the “pay it forward” struck me. I remember reading something about it or watching a film to do with it, but yeah. I just wanted to put this here to remind myself about one of the things I used to keep close to my heart but completely forgot about. These past couple of weeks since starting uni have sort of seen the start of a resolution I never actually told myself I’d expressly keep, but rather, it was one I keep remembering whenever random situations arise, and I guess the story above just reminded me about it. It’s strange, because I never thought I’d remember to do these things for self-improvement unless I wrote it down or promised myself to do them or something.

P.S. Contract essay down, 7000 words to go. COME ON <3