A couple years ago before Bryn decided to attend Mizzou for her college education, we did a tour of my own alma mater as well... Missouri State University... aka. Southwest MO State as it was called back in the covered wagons days when I attended.
Although it's been said I'm Mizzou alum as well, but that just aggravates people, so I'll only claim the school I actually attended for 3 years & graduated from, and not the one I just attended during my freshman year only. Insert sarcasm & eye roll...
Definition of alumnus
1 : a person who has attended or has graduated from a particular school, college, or university
—usually used of a man in the singular but often of men and women in the plural
2 : a person who is a former member, employee, contributor, or inmate
Anyway... I'll carry on...
At the time when I was in school... I loved Missouri State more than Mizzou. And although Bryn's dad & my dad are both alumni, my mom even attended Mizzou for a couple years before she ended up graduating from Webster University... we've all been life-long Mizzou fans & pretty much groomed Bryn to be a fan as well. She spent her whole life attending football, basketball & even women's volleyball games. It's been in her blood since day one. She's a Tiger for sure.
Still... my sisters & I all graduated from Missouri State, so everyone is also a Bears fan too by association, and well... they got much of my parent's money so cheering us on was a given.
And worse yet, if we ever called home & started the conversation with, "Da Bears," my dad said he always got ready to open his wallet because he figured we needed money. LOL
Suffice it to say I was excited to show Bryn the campus where I went to school.
Bryn's main response to campus that I still vividly recall... "It's too beige."
Me: Wait what? Too beige? What do you mean by that?
Bryn: The buildings. They're all too beige.
Granted this campus tour did take place after the tour of Mizzou, and well.. Mizzou is definitely full of a lot of pomp & circumstance... I still never realized how beige it was in comparison until she pointed it out.
It was beige alright, but when I was her age all I saw was an education, opportunities, fun, people my age, life experiences and of course... life away from my parent's roof... LOL
Which leads to something that was on my mind today... mindset & how you see the world around you. How you view those around you. YOUR ATTITUDE and how you view and treat others, good or bad, is what you will unknowingly bring more of into your life.
Look around you... what's in your life? Who's in your life?
If your life seems to be full of drama or negative circumstances and you're not realizing that YOU might be the reason for that... you still have much to learn.
If you're better at blaming others for your circumstances than you are at taking some accountability and deciding to make changes to the energy you're giving to those circumstances, the universe will never have room to bring you some happiness.
Positive attracts positive.
If you focus on the negative in someone, you'll get lots of negative in return.
If you focus on what's wrong with everything rather than with what's right, you'll get plenty more wrong to complain about.
If you're busier judging others than you are at being busy making positive changes to your own life, you'll be forever unhappy.
Start with gratitude.
Even if the only thing you can find to be grateful for is waking up in the morning.
Or having a roof over your head.
Or that you have food in your refrigerator.
Start with making a habit of saying THANK YOU for all the little things in your life.
It will in fact, bring more little things to be grateful for in your life.
Change your perspective on how you see things around you.
If you see a lot of beige, I bet you'll be bored. Nothing more boring than lots of beige, I'll definitely admit. LOL
Where can you find something else to look at though? What else do you see in the big picture?
It all starts & ends with YOU.
It's as simple & as complicated as that. Just YOU.
Change your perspective, add some gratitude and change your life...
XOXO
