What if.....

I've been thinking for days about this. So I will just speak for myself but I wonder how many of you think the same way. 

So I walk into a room, at first glance I see all the smiling faces. Then I think to myself many different things. First, am I the ugliest in the room, or maybe the prettiest. Am I the fattest in the room maybe I am the thinnest. (Come on Marya you know that's not true) Am I going to be the life of the party or will I be a dud. Will I get stuck talking to the most annoying person in the room oh wait am I going to be the most annoying person in the room? 

All of this in mere seconds of arriving. Forget to the person on the outskirts? What if I actually looked around the room and instead of thinking all about me I thought about you and what you might need. 

WHAT IF when anyone of us went anywhere we kept our eyes and thoughts off of ourselves and we thought of others. What if I went in somewhere wishing to bring the passion of my life to others. What if my eyes were fixated on something far greater than myself. 

What if society stopped looking at ourselves and started looking out wards. What if our eyes were focused on others rather than ourselves? What if we loved people the amount we love our selves. 

Imagine what life would look like? I think we'd find ourselves less angry. I wonder if we would be more compassionate, more empathetic. 

I am going to try to look outside myself & not compare myself  to others. I'm going to see if when I give someone else the attention I give my own self if I feel less awkward and even more joyful. 

What if you tried it too?