Hey, it's Kassie! What are you doing today? You're probably gonna be woken up by an alarm, you're
probably gonna wait for the bus. It's not gonna come when you want it to come.
It's gonna leave when it wants to and not when you get there.
And if you are in customer service you're probably gonna deal with pricks and
wait for the clock to you turn to the hour where you're done work and you're
gonna go home and unwind. Probably watch some TV, go to bed and repeat. The thing
with
an average day is, it's just that. It's average.
Looking forward to the future and having hope for the future is
important if you want to plan, but then we run the risk of looking forward to
happiness.
It's easy to get wrapped up in life and forget to live.
When I hear people say things like, "I'll be happy when I graduate", or
"I'll be happy when I get this car", "I'll be happy when I get this boyfriend",
"I'll be happy when I get this job",
it really sells everyday life short and it makes everyday life just this
grueling marathon instead of the series sprints.
My point with all of this is that we can control our daily lives and we don't have to wait.
We think that at some point
something's gonna happen and the rest of our lives is gonna be amazing and that's
just not the case.
Everyday life is gonna be average. Everyday life is gonna be mundane.
There's gonna be hard work. You're gonna have to work very very hard in your life!
The majority of the people I grew up with said, "I don't want to work an office
job. I don't wanna work a nine-to-five job. I want to do something else."
But I feel like the point of life is to see the beautiful
in the mundane. Most of us are gonna work eight hours a day, most of us are
going to work our asses off.
Most of us aren't gonna have these crazy extravagant lives and
there's nothing wrong with that. When good things happen in your life, if you
have a good perspective
those things are usually gonna happen because you earned them and not because
prince charming, or this job, or this car or this event happened that changed
your life
and just made everything different. A lot of us are dreamers and
it's okay to dream but it's also important to
take everyday life and be positive and don't take a single day for granted.
I used to think that something good would happen or that eventually
far off in the distance things would get better, but things never get better until
you change your perspective.
And you try to just see the good in things. Just see the good
in the average. See the beautiful in the mundane. For most of us anyway, it's not
a celebrity life
and I learned the hard way that in this life you're going to have to hold onto
the positive encounters you have.
Because most of the things you're going to see aren't going to be beautiful, most of the things you do
aren't going to be extravagant, most of the people you meet aren't going to give a damn
about you
Let's face it, every day isn't going to be Disneyland--
unless you work at Disneyland, in which case every day's gonna be
Disneyland and it's gonna suck! I used to hold on to the negative and
woo! It wasn't a good thing. I mean that's
obvious it wasn't a good thing, it goes without saying. I'm not going to be okay unless
I do the best I can each day and I hold onto every positive
encounter that I have. I distinctly remember going home really late one
night with my boyfriend.
And the night bus runs at 3AM and nothing else really does. All the trains are off
And we got on the night bus... It was full of
a bunch very miserable people.
I remember the bus driver. He was cracking jokes and laughing and smiling.
And, I mean, if you think about it, he really didn't have a very extravagant life
either, but he
was holding onto the positive. The night bus driver probably
has a job that most people would not
envy but he had a good time. He probably went home happy.
He probably thought about the good encounters he had and the thing with
positive energy
is it feeds off of itself. He made a bunch of other people happy,
he made himself happy, and people were just feeding him this negative energy
but every single time
somebody appreciated what he was doing he held onto that.
And that's what kept him going. A lot of us when we get insulted or when we have a
bad day
we let that drag us down and we try to drag other people down with us but I think we
can learn from people like him. We have to just be like that bus driver and
just be positive in an overwhelmingly negative world.
In my opinion it's the only way and I guess you can think that the world is an
overly positive place.
I commend you for that but I mean I guess I just don't see it.
For me it's about appreciating the good people I meet.
Because to me the good people are few and far between.
It's worth it, meeting them. It's about finding those diamonds
in the blackness. He went the extra mile to make his job better.
He could have just drove the bus but he didn't. He turned demanding job into an
experience and on top of that
it turned a trip that I was dreading into something that I always look back
at fondly. It was an experience for me! It was fun for me!
I loved the night bus that night and--oh god... I usually hate the night bus.
I made this video for you guys because I'm going through an incredibly hard
time right now, but
I have hope and I want you guys to have hope too.
Because I remember times in the past where I held onto the negative instead of
the positive
and it was rough. It's amazing how
most us can let one person make or break our day.
Your happiness is not worth that one person. Know that life is hard;
life is mundane; life is going to take a lot of hard work.
But hold on to the positive, have hope for the future and
you're gonna make the world a better place. I hope that you guys will come away from
this video the passion to leave everybody
a little bit better than the way you found them. Approach everything you do
with that love in mind
and things will be better for you and things will be better for everybody else!
I promise! I hope you enjoy this video and I'll talk to you soon! Bye!