Every day is the first day of your life.

Though the statement I am about to make may sound as cliché as it gets, but I think it’s a very smart ideology to live by. I believe, to an extent, that every day is the first day of your life. When I say this I mean that every single day everyone has a chance to start a new. Whether it’s do something that they normally wouldn’t do or just thinking in a different way, everyone has a chance to change there life any day. My belief stems from a few very simple events.

For a very long time I was going though quite the depression and nothing was looking up. Every day I woke up and told myself that I didn’t have a chance and that it was pointless to even try. This continued for a while until one day I was talking to my dad about college and other worrisome topics. I was going on and on about how I have no idea what I want to major in and how I am going to most likely pick the wrong one and be screwed over for the rest of my life. What my dad responded with changed how I think completely, what he said was “it’s never to late to change what you want to do in life, as long as you think about the effects it will have on everyone around you” I was rather put back by this I wasn’t exactly sure how to responded to it. The next morning when I woke up instead of saying that it was going to be just another bullshit day I said. “I will make a change”. Though this whole story sounds monotonous and cliché it’s what has changed my ideals. And with this it goes to show that yes it’s a new day but it doesn’t mean that people need to make drastic life changing decisions, it just means that they have every day of their life to do something they normally wouldn’t. Sometimes people get themselves in holes that the mass majority would agree are impossible to get out of. Some of these are getting put in prison or losing the carrier that they have work for all there life. Yes, if someone is in prison they have most likely done something that’s frowned upon in our society. In this case they can’t really go out and do thing’s like meet new people or go to new places, but they can change their outlook on life.

I’m not a religious fellow in the slightest, but I do believe that religion has the power to lift people up and become stronger in situations of distress. For instance, my sister, who is a great deal like me, was going though a hard time and she was at the low of lows. She was going to Regis high school at the time, which is a catholic high school. She was constantly surrounded by religion, but it was never forced upon her. After sometime she decided to give it a try and she started to pray. And this was exactly the change she needed in her life. It opened doors to situations such as her going on a mission trip and her finding her passion of being a teacher in developing countries. And the reasons for this all happening is because she decided to do something different then she normally would with her life.

Though I am just a random insignificant 17 year old in just another pointless town in this country, I can do something extraordinary by using this ideology. Before I started to think this way I was trapped in a little bubble that I just couldn’t pop; now that that bubble has exploded the world is open for me to peruse aspirations that will benefit me. My point is that no matter who you are there is a chance to start a new every day. In the words of Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse from the musical “The Roar of the Greasepaint—the Smell of the Crowd” “It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day, it’s a new life for me. And I’m feeling good”. Every day is a whole new life, what will you do with it?