Waiting On Someday

     Have you ever been in a position where you had no control? That's how I feel right now. I'm waiting for this date that is going to determine the next year and a half of my life, but until I figure that out, I have absolutely no control. I was going crazy until about a week ago. I'm still very anxious, this is something that is constantly on my mind. However, I developed a plan, a plan to stay busy.

     Service.

It's a nice word. :)

It's also a very nice distraction. 

     There are some people who are just phenomenal at this, they are so aware of everyone around them. They are always ready to serve the next person that walks into their life. I admire people like this.

     True story: I was trying to donate plasma yesterday, March 4th, and I was in my own little world. I was just sitting in the lobby, almost completely full of eager doners, playing a game on my phone. (Nerd alert: I'm obsessed with Mahjong tiles, it's bad.) A young woman sat down next to me, I didn't really pay attention. A few minutes later a man behind me piped up. "Miss, would you want me to switch you seats so that you two can sit by each other?" What? I hadn't even noticed! She had walked in with a man, and she sat down by me, because there weren't any places with two seats. "Are you sure?! Oh my goodness, thank you so much!" Ha! She was SO happy! Look at that. The young man sitting behind me got up and moved to the seat next to me, and continued studying his anatomy(I love anatomy!). He was so aware, they didn't say anything, they were just going to spend the long wait sitting apart from each other. As they sat next to each other behind me I listened to them help each other study. I was just witnessing service all over the place, it was fantastic! Seriously people, you're amazing.

     It makes me sad when people say that our world is full of bad people, because it isn't. There is good everywhere you turn! It's amazing. I love this place.

     Look, you forgot what I was talking about in the first place didn't you? Well good! Because that's the point, service makes you forget  yourself, forget the bad things, and it makes you focus on JOY! It makes you focus on God, because we know that "when [we] are in the service of [our] fellow beings, [we] are only in the service of [our] God." (Mosiah 2:17) Fantastic.

     So my plan, my plan was to serve the people that I have a hard time getting along with. My roommate Kenzie reminded me the other day, whilst I was complaining about something, "Sam, the best way to love someone is to serve them." I have been placed in the way of so many wise and wonderful people. For that I am grateful.

     This world is incredible, indeed God has filled it with his finest children! Until my "someday" comes, I will continue to look for service, to better myself for the people who I will serve with my whole heart the next year and a half. Now I will patiently wait, and I will fill my time with love, the love that God wishes to send to his children.