Focus on the Positive...but Develop from the Negatives

I agree that helping people, doing things for others, is the key to living a good life. But who gets to decide what is counted as serving others? Most people will automatically think first of the heavy lifting, purely physical things, like volunteering their labor at charities. They then might consider simpler deeds, like giving someone a ride. What about if one is not physically able to help others in such a way? What if their way of helping is less obvious, indirected even?  Picture someone on their computer at home writing a blog about their health experiences in hope someone else who needs guidance will find the page. They choose to devote the time to do it because they want to make another life better by sharing what they've learned. They are indeed serving others, despite it is not the outwardly way we expect.  Never assume others are selfish because you don't see them volunteering. They might be helping other people in their own way, the only way they can; and...

It doesn't matter what your expectations are for me. It doesn't matter what your expectations are for anybody else or how you think people should be. For that is only your opinion, your belief, your view of the world. Understand your perception is not the ideal, the reality, or the way it's best for everyone else, nor is mine for that matter. Neither of us have adequate information to tell the rest of the world the way they all should be living. Only you yourself know what you are capable of. It does not matter if you think your way is the best, the standard EVERYONE should follow. No matter how much we want to, we don't make "the rules" for everyone; everyone will not live their life in the way we expect they should , and we must accept they have no obligation to.

Well the question I am asking myself today, one I think critics would ask is: am I spending so much time setting up my bullet journal that I am wasting time I should be devoting to the tasks I'm listing and drawing?  Will it be worth it as my journal fills in? This is my one month review of keeping a bullet journal. I have been spending time on my jourdling and A to Z lists probably more than I have to do lists and chore reminders. I keep thinking of creative ideas.  It is nice to have a place to keep all these random lists I never had written before, like my bucket list and recipes to try,  but also my favorites A to Z and little quarks about me. I don't think these extra pages are an entire waste. I had noticed during wedding planning that it was great stress relief to have an outlet for expression again.  I had painting or jewelry all set up and could easily work on it in a spare moment or when I couldn't sleep.  My bullet journal has repl...