The Box

   Leah and Railee had dumped out their toy boxes. My husband told them if they cleaned it up, they could play with the new box. We had just bought a dehumidifier for our home and we let the kids play with the boxes we don't need. As they rushed to clean up Railee kept looking at the box. Leah was talking about what they could turn the box into.
  I thought nothing of it until later that evening after the kids went to bed about how happy they were over a box. A BOX. They have a ridiculous amount of toys and they want to play with the box so much that they cleaned up all the toys to do so.
  The more I thought on this, the more I applied it to real life. We overlook the little things, we overlook what they could be. They are seen as "just a box" and not a car or airplane or a tunnel. People get so caught up life and what it is and not what it can be. "It is what it is" needs to be put to rest. That saying needs to stopped being used. That's a way of accepting what it is and not trying to change it to make life what it can be.
  Stop accepting things AS IS and start seeing it for what it can be. Life can be a beautiful thing, one just has to put forth the effort to see it as such. EVERYTHING takes effort. Just make sure you don't give up sight of what you want in life and put forth the effort to make it what it can be. Change your perspective, if not then it will always be "it is what it is."