Just Look Around

Ever have those days when all you want to do is reminisce? Just get lost in past memories and forget all about everything going on around you? That’s all that I ever seem to be doing lately, I have gotten so stuck in the past that I have forgotten to look around me now. I am missing out on everyday because I think that the past is more exciting and to be honest it was. Sometimes I will spend 2 hours just looking at pictures of a time that I know I can't go back to but I want to so badly. I choose not to look at all the awesome things around me right now because I don't want to believe that anything can be as good as that time in my life. But, that isn't what God has for me. He wants me to enjoy the time I am in now. He didn't set me here to just mope around hoping the next 5 years will go as quickly as possible. I am supposed to be his light wherever I am. He is relying on me to show his light to those who haven't seen it. I don't have the right to sit around being depressed about where I am not but look at the adventures all around me, in the everyday. He has great things for me but I have to be willing to look. I am supposed to find joy in those around me, not people live thousands of miles away. I don’t have the right to be jealous of those that are continuing their adventures but be happy that, that is where God has called them for this period in their life. I need to wipe off the self pity and just look around.