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Recent spats with my parents have cause me to rethink the way I've been acting lately. I need to be more appreciative and less self-centered. Everyone hates the moments where you just snap, but the moments that follow shortly after are the ones that you learn the most from. Anyways, this is officially the first day of my summer, and it's also going to be the first day of my Happiness Meme. Everyday, I'm going to blog about something that made me happy. It might get difficult, since, to my fustration, this summer is going to be everything I expected it not to be. Nothing is working out, and yes, that's pretty much the most annoying thing in the world, but I have to stop thinking about me and realize how much my parents have sacrificed to give me this opportunity. I've been asking God to help me make the most of it, but there's only so much He can do if I don't want to make the most of it. For the time being, I'm going to summer the heck out of the next week and a half that I have left in Vancouver, and then cross my fingers in hope that something good will come out of the rest of it.

Happiness Meme, Day 1
Today was just... bad, so I called up a friend to vent, and about 5 minutes later, I was laughing. It wasn't in the sense that merely talking to someone makes everything better and allows me to forget all my problems, but in the sense that I appreciate someone who understands the meaning of listening. It has nothing to do with giving long-winded responses, but more to do with putting genuine care into things, even if words are few. I know I'm easily amused, and he said so himself that I'm somehow able to make myself happy in the middle of my own dialogue, but actually, if I could produce my own happiness, I wouldn't have needed to call someone. I really don't know how anyone puts up with how ma fan I can get, but I'm not going to complain about that.
Thank you, friend.