Ok, how many of us know this guy? The one in the picture, if you don't know this guy, you have been deprived from watching one of the coolest movies ever and you need to go watch it NOW!!!!! But anyways, this here is Mike Wazowski from Monsters Inc. Well as I was scrolling down my tumblr and reblogging things, I came across a picture of him that really spoke to me.
If you don't know the storyline, Mike has a best friend, his name is Sulley, and Sulley is a big shot monster, he is like the top scariest monster. So Sully gets a lot of fame and a lot of admiration, Mike on the other hand, he stays in the background but he does a lot of things for Sulley, he sets up the equipment for Sully to scare kids, he gives him advice, all of those things that best friends do.
Here's the thing, Mike wanted to be a big shot like Sully, be he just can't do it, I mean he stays positive that he will do it someday but honestly, he's really not scary, so he works somewhere else within the company. And here's how God spoke to me: Since Sulley is a big deal and gets a lot of fame, Mike accompanies him on a lot of things. There's a point in the movie where the t.v is on and a commercial for the company comes on and Mike is super excited because he's on t.v!!
If you don't know the storyline, Mike has a best friend, his name is Sulley, and Sulley is a big shot monster, he is like the top scariest monster. So Sully gets a lot of fame and a lot of admiration, Mike on the other hand, he stays in the background but he does a lot of things for Sulley, he sets up the equipment for Sully to scare kids, he gives him advice, all of those things that best friends do.
Here's the thing, Mike wanted to be a big shot like Sully, be he just can't do it, I mean he stays positive that he will do it someday but honestly, he's really not scary, so he works somewhere else within the company. And here's how God spoke to me: Since Sulley is a big deal and gets a lot of fame, Mike accompanies him on a lot of things. There's a point in the movie where the t.v is on and a commercial for the company comes on and Mike is super excited because he's on t.v!!
There he is!! Do you see him? Right there! Right behind the huge M. All you can see is his hat and his arms and legs. Now when they are watching the commercial, Sulley has this worried look on his face because Mike was really excited about being on t.v and this is all that showed up, but do you know what Mike did after he watched it? HE JUMPED UP AND DOWN!!! YES, HE WAS ON T.V! WOOOHOOO!!!! Wow...that spoke to me a lot. How many of us have that kind of reaction? When things don't go our way, do we rejoice because of how things DID go? Or do we grow bitter because things should only go the way WE want them to? See Mike didn't care that his whole self was covered by the logo, he just cared that he was on t.v, that's all he wanted. When I think about that, it blows my mind and it makes me wonder what are the situations in my life that I should be reacting like this to. One thing I know for sure is that life sucks, it does, but YOU can either make it suck less or suck way more than it really should. Personally, I tend to be a positive person, and that has kept me from a lot of disappointments, but also, I can get pretty annoyed when things don't go my way and I do the whole "it's not fair" speech. Ok, yeah, it's not fair, so what? What now? Life isn't fair, that's a reality we have to live with, are we going to concentrate on how unfair our lives are, or are we going to appreciate the little things that make life beautiful, not fair, just beautiful. See I know about pain and about how much it sucks to be on the background while others get the attention, or the love, or the admiration that you want, but I guarantee that if you changed your perspective a little, you would start to see those things in places where you least imagined they would be.
So here's my challenge for all of us, you may be hurting a lot, or just a little, or not at all, wherever you are with that hear me out: change your perspective. I know this is a little bit of a rant but analyze what is your reactions to situations that don't go your way. Mike stays positive through a lot of things and if you watch the movie you can see that life is really not fair for him, but he just stays positive, he keeps smiling and viewing things differently than other people. You that whole "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" thing? Well it works with your life as well, the way you view your life says a lot about you, maybe life doesn't really love you, maybe it has been hard, very hard, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't love your life. Remember to look for the little things, to appreciate what happens in life not because it happened the way you had planned it, but simply because it happened.
I hope this helps some of you. God bless.
~ Diana
So here's my challenge for all of us, you may be hurting a lot, or just a little, or not at all, wherever you are with that hear me out: change your perspective. I know this is a little bit of a rant but analyze what is your reactions to situations that don't go your way. Mike stays positive through a lot of things and if you watch the movie you can see that life is really not fair for him, but he just stays positive, he keeps smiling and viewing things differently than other people. You that whole "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" thing? Well it works with your life as well, the way you view your life says a lot about you, maybe life doesn't really love you, maybe it has been hard, very hard, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't love your life. Remember to look for the little things, to appreciate what happens in life not because it happened the way you had planned it, but simply because it happened.
I hope this helps some of you. God bless.
~ Diana