For those of you who don't know, Lent started on Wednesday.
You're probably wondering why that matters to me since I'm Mormon, but for the past few years I've always given up something for Lent because I like the challenge. Usually I give up candy or something, but that's not much of a challenge anymore.
After some long, hard thinking, TyRee and I decided to sacrifice "negative attitudes." That probably sounds really cheesy, but we wanted to give up something that would actually make us better people...and we couldn't think of any vices that we're not already working on.
At first, we were going to not complain, but then I realized that there is such a thing as "productive complaining," sort of like constructive criticism.
It's been interesting these last couple of days because I never would have thought of either of us as pessimistic, but we've both been noticing that we are more negative than we think we are! This has helped us to have better self-discipline, and it's been fun/funny to try and see the bright side of things we usually complain about. It came in handy the other day when I came home to a very disgusting kitchen and I felt like yelling at somebody. But I didn't.
5 comments:
Good idea, Abigail! How long do you have to give it up, month? That's long enough to make it a habit!
Hey! that's such a good idea! And I agree, there is constructive complaining!
In addition to giving up "sloth," I thought of another good thing to give up....self-criticism. I'm not allowed to think or speak poorly about myself. I think it will help me be kinder to other people too.
Let's have a clean kitchen this summer. I fully support that idea.
is that why you didn't like how i talked about HSM 3? ps i'm pretty sure that movie made me throw up last night...that or the pizza. I'm going with the movie though
oh abby i love the way you think.
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