Recent Thoughts

So recently I've been feeling a little solitary in my thoughts, and after a couple of soul-searching moments and talks with co-workers that are very adept at some valuable and inspiring insight, I want to relay a couple of points I'm pondering:

• Life is WAY too short as we've found out and been reminded of recently to get caught up in the tiny little  mundane details of everyday life. Whitney Houston passed away too young, as have many celebrities. As we keep seeing more and more these days, it really does seem that 'only the good die young' etc. Death is too much a part of regular life that we no longer seem phased by it and therefore don't realize how important each and every moment truly is. We have to cherish them, even if we have to force ourselves out of a reverie of negativity to do so. (I definitely need to heed my own advice, here). 
• Negativity tends to fade quick and positivity tends to last longer. - This thought is mind-blowing to me! A co-worker recently told me some thoughts she was having regarding life, work, play, travel, thoughts, outlook, self-esteem, the whole deal. Her thoughts were very opening to me: What we think is a big deal now will not be in the long run. What we do day-to-day is the bigger issue. So if we constantly think negative thoughts, then life is generally not so great. But if we have smaller moments of negativity, that's not so bad. Positivity glosses over those small negative moments we have from time to time, and that's the key.
• For some reason, I've been really cherishing my relationship with my boyfriend. But at the same token, I'm thinking of him in a very 'you might die any second and I want to make sure every single second that you know and are 150% sure that you know I love you more than anything in the world and can't put words to how much I care deeply for you'. Is that catastrophic thinking? Probably. But it made me realize that I do really love him and do really cherish the everyday moments we have, no matter how small or how insignificant. That makes me happy - thus: positivity lasts longer! Proof of point #2. :)
• Walking is a nice way to relax and reconfigure your thoughts. Seriously. I walk everyday to and from work, and I must say, it's a wonderful chance to compose myself and take stock of what's going on in my life and what I still would like to accomplish and/or change. Pretty standard/been said before, but I wanted to express my personal thoughts on that one.
• Spend as much time with OTHERS as you can! In one of my social communication classes in college, I discovered that we as a 'unique individual' are in fact beings with multiple truths and realities that are constantly changing and adapting to how we interact with others. We are who we are when we're interacting. That to me was mind-blowing - it completely blew my previous conceptions of a 'unique individual' out of the water. We are beings who are social and interact with others. Crazy, right? Wrong. That totally makes more sense to me than the notion of a 'unique self' ever did. I tend to think of human beings as just vessels that contain our floating thoughts and energies which we constantly exchange and share with other human beings - these make up our substance and are ever-fluctuating. That is actually quite a liberating and reassuring thought. We don't have to be 'set' or 'concrete' in our thoughts or 'personalities' - we can make adaptations and reconfigure our lives to play out the way we want them to at the time. No more of this 'set personality' crap. We are who we and everyone else chooses at whatever time to be!
• Try to relax as much as you can. Again, life is too short to be stressed out any more than a tiny bit. We're surrounded now by so much (mostly artificial) stimuli that we're bombarding ourselves with too much information and mundane distractions that we don't 'stop to smell the roses' anymore. We need to change that! I hate people who are constantly glued to their machines - we're becoming exactly those 'robotic humans' that the old movies predicted we would - let's avoid this! I want a world back how it used to be - relaxing and connected to nature and simplistic. As Henry David Thoreau (and many others for sure) used to say, 'Simplify, simplify, simplify!' 
• Nothing you wear is as important and as connected to your mood than your ATTITUDE. So adjust it when you're thinking negatively and convert that energy to positive thoughts and CONFIDENCE. Even if it's 'fake' at first, do it! Put that extra swag in your step and you'll start to notice a change in the way you see life. I've done it, and I'm the most stubborn person out there, and it definitely affects me for the better. :)

These are just some notions I'm pondering these days, so I wanted to share. Any thoughts or ideas or comments are always welcome!