Something More Valuable than Gold

I had an amazing birthday! The most incredible birthday gift you can get is realizing all the wonderful people that Heavenly Father has placed in your life!  I truly believe that everything happens for a reason, that everyone you meet, everyone who crosses your path, whether for a moment or a lifetime, has some integral part of our lives.

 The questions we should ask ourselves is, “how well did I treat them?” and “did I leave them better than I found them?” I believe that in the end, this will be what defines us as a person.  Back in the day when I got an actual newspaper that I read in the morning, I always went to the obituaries first.  My family thought it was morbid but when I really thought about it, I realized what I was doing was seeing what their family and friends wrote about them.  Were they loved and did they live a life worth remembering? Were the things they accomplished something that changed people’s lives for better?  This was a valuable tool for me to keep myself in check with what was important.

Face it, we need each other.  I don’t know one “alone” person that is happy! Heavenly Father put people in our lives to help us but in order for them to care enough about us to do that; we have to care about them.  People who say, “I have no friends and no one cares about me!” haven’t realized that to have a friend, you must BE a friend first! To have someone love us, we must first love them and to first love them, we have to first love ourselves.

I think the most valuable thing we can do to learn to love ourselves more, is loving others.  There is nothing that makes us happier and feel better about ourselves then to have a birthday (50th) and realize that you have SO many friends and family that loves you!  However, it comes at a price! You cannot buy it with silver or gold, it takes something a lot more valuable…your TIME and your HEART.