Simply because Friday’s are notoriously the LEAST popular day for blog posts to be read, I will keep this short, positive and motivational for the upcoming weekend. The other day I had the insane pleasure of speaking with another photographer whom I absolutely adore. We talked a lot about business, friendships, hardships and the challenges life and this industry can present. The overall tone of the conversation was uplifting, positive, and simply HAPPY.

Its all something we know and have heard “Kill em with kindness”….”be the bigger person”…..”rise above….remain classy”….etc. These are the words we are fed when it seems the world is against us. The words we are fed when someone has made it their mission to bring you down, just because it makes them feel bigger inside. But….after our conversation, I took away something that really spoke to me….and spoke to my struggles:

Give it to God! Give it to Him because He knows best. He has a plan far greater than we have for ourselves. Be Happy. Because it drives others crazy to know their efforts to bring you down, failed. There is a LOT of this life that is out of our control….ESPECIALLY the actions of others. CHOOSE to be happy….right now, and every day after. This life is FAR too short to spend it trying to make someone else feel happy/loved when they are shut off to you and MOST importantly, God.

Pray for those people. Pray that they find happiness before its too late. Know in your heart that they may be fighting a battle we know nothing of, and are not quite sure how to handle those emotions. I am certianly not making excuses for “evil” people….but I am standing up for my faith in God to get me through things I CAN NO LONGER pretend to have any control over.

So in the words of Carrie Underwood….Jesus, Take the Wheel.

Take this weekend to LET GO of the people and things you can not change, and focus simply….very simply…on just BEING HAPPY! Go!