Friday, October 17, 2008

Comfortable In My Own Company

Posted by Abby Marie at 11:33 AM

Although some people would vehemently disagree, I feel very lucky to attend school at BYU. Where else could I take a marriage prep class that would be chalk full of ways to apply gospel principles to marriage?

Today we talked about happiness. Our teacher posed the question "Are you comfortable in your own company?" We talked a little about what that means. One option is, do you feel comfortable being at home a lone on a friday night when all your roommates are on dates? Another option is do you recognize who you are, and are you happy with it? Are you comfortable with what you and the Lord have made of yourself?

The point of our discussion was to encourage us to stop looking for someone to 'make us happy' and start realizing that whether or not we are happy will depend mostly upon ourselves, and our relationship with God. If I can be happy alone, then when I get a husband I can still be happy even when he doesn't always make me happy. I don't really know, but from what I hear husbands aren't perfect...which is weird, because wives are...right? :)

So, being comfortable with who I am alone, is going to set me up for being comfortable and happy and having joy in my marriage, and every other aspect of life as well.

Something that helps me be happy each day is when I start out by saying to my self: Self, you are GREAT no matter what anyone else thinks. Not that people don't think I'm great, because they do :), but you know how easy it is to make up that someone doesn't like you because they made a funny look at you when really they were just about to sneeze or something.

Wow, I made myself laugh when I wrote that last paragraph. Self, you are so funny.


My sister tagged me to place my 4th picture from my 4th album on my blog. I wasn't going to do it because I was embarrassed about this one. I had just received a haircut and straightened my hair for the first time since the cut, so I took a bunch of pictures of myself. I guess maybe I'm a little too comfortable in my own company?

3 comments:

Hannah said...

I was woNDErING if you were going to fulfill the tag request! I might have been mad, so i'm glad you did it. :) That is cool that you can have those discussions in your classes and all so true and good to think about.

October 17, 2008 at 8:46 PM
Andy's Appetite said...

Joe was telling me about this post on the way to Costco today. He thought it was a great thing to think about. It's very true.
I like the straight hair picture.

October 17, 2008 at 9:15 PM
Russell said...

Abby, it's CHUCK FULL, and even the people who insist on saying it wrong spell it chock.

October 21, 2008 at 2:32 PM

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