Change of Scenery

"A change of scenery can help everything."

-Drew Pomeranz

Being in a new setting can help make life better. Imagine going from a setting where life seems like a dead end to being in a setting where you can be happier and more free. It is why people want vacations from their daily grind. You sometimes need to go to different places to feel better. The impact of going to some other places will help you to recharge or even develop some newfound confidence. You can always return to your original place, but going elsewhere can make a big difference in your life. This blog post is a discussion on the front of change of scenery.


^ from: (YouTube) - Sometimes, the best way to feel better about yourself is to go to different places. Having wanderlust can be helpful in this regard.

Why is a Change of Scenery Important?

When you go to a new place or somewhere apart from your original location, you tend to feel different. Often times, a new setting can help you feel better about yourself and others. Some people wish they can live in a different place where they can be more free and more independent. As an example, think of someone looking to move out of city slums and live in a more prominent neighborhood. Someone may live in a place ripe with crime and drug dealers and want to move to a more secure location. Some other person may even want to go from his/her current city to live in a better city. Students may want to go from one school or college to a better one. Some people in certain work environments may want to take in better jobs for higher salaries or for getting away from certain workplaces. Athletes and teams in sports sometimes want to go to different teams and environments for a better living or to even go to better teams.

No matter what, there is incentive to want to go from one place to another, whether temporary or permanently. One does not have to be with a certain place or be around certain people for the entirety of their lives. You can always go elsewhere, unless you feel locked in and can only do so much. We do live in a big world that has all kind of possibilities and opportunities that await us. Not many of us are fully driven to want to explore this big world or have the resources to want to go to different locations.

Can You Have a Change of Scenery From Your Original Place?

If it is possible to make your current space more inviting and more productive, then you can certainly feel better with a happier version of your current space. Cleaning up your room or house can give you a bit more of happiness so where your life is much better. You can have yourself a "staycation" that can help boost your mood and feel better each day. All you would need to do is try to find ways to make your current space better.

Change of Scenery if You Are Not Outgoing.

I will admit- I am not as outgoing for a person who talks about how beautiful certain places in the world are. If you feel you can be living better by going to a different place, you have to get yourself to want to go to different places. You have to make yourself to want to go someplace different for boosting your mood or getting away from the usual dump style of life you may be living. If you are not an outgoing kind of person and feel you need a change of scenery, then you are probably going to have to make your current space as happy as possible. How you are going to accomplish this is going to be a real challenge. So think carefully as to how you want to accomplish this.

Final Thoughts.

Whether temporary or permanently, we all could use a change of scenery. It allows us to explore the world while also providing a psychological advantage of boosting our mood and exploring what is possible. The chance to live a better and happier life can be done by simply being in places that allow us to be more free and feel better. That is why many of us take vacations to go to different places. You don't have to be a vagabond; you just have to visit places that can help you feel better and free apart from your normal location.





This post is over. If you care to discuss, let's do so! Here's my question to you all:

Do you believe in life being better by simply being in a different place? How important do you think a change of scenery can be?

Thank you for reading! Take care and be well.

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Life Lessons: Political Ads

What can political advertisements teach us about life? On the surface, most political ads help sway interest towards electing someone to office. However, opponents may try to exploit the wrongs of others and have you vote an opponent instead. So what does this have to do with life? Simple- people not as educated about others are given two (maybe more than two) perceptions about someone. It is up to that person to either support a featured personality or reject that personality. Average people like you and I are treated and regarded the same way. Maybe some of us may never run for any political office, but the feeling of having our best qualities and our worst qualities and being judged for them are quite the same.

About the Label: "Life Lessons"

Posts under the "Life Lessons" label is a unique look at what we can learn about life through conventional (and sometimes unconventional) concepts. The main point is to offer a look at life from various arenas.

The Link Between Political Ads and Life/Society.

Because we don't know a lot about people we come into contact with, we are mostly given an immediate snapshot as to why we should care about a certain individual. These snapshots offer reasons as to why we should care about a certain individual campaigning to win the respect of others or simply to prove how amazing that person is. Especially with political ads, these people want to win your respect and help make society and life better for all with their campaigns. They want you to put your full trust into that individual to help move society in the correct direction for a brighter and happier future. We therefore often want to celebrate the positive qualities of someone. That is why we tend to love people. Just as much as there are positive qualities to someone, there are also negative qualities that ultimately paint the perfect picture of someone. We don't want to know about the negative qualities of someone trying to earn others' trust, but opponents' opposing views of someone are actually needed in helping tell the other side of the story or form the complete picture of someone trying to earn our trust. That is why for every political ad wanting us to vote for someone, there is some other political ad from opposition wanting us to vote for someone else instead of one individual based on certain claims and accusations.

No one person is ever going to be completely positive. Likewise, no one person may be completely negative. Accepting and loving someone is a combination of taking the good with the bad about someone. Someone who may have glaring negatives can improve to become a better person. Someone who may have glaring positives could all be broken down to hate if certain negatives hit the mind of some individuals. All of these things can help towards better accepting or not accepting certain individuals- just like in political ads.

Why Did I Link Political Ads to Society?

Why did I bring up political ads? If you know me, I try to stay away from issues related to government, economics, and religion because I am not educated much on these matters, nor do I try to pretend I am any kind of expert. I put up this topic because there are things about life that can be taught from something similar. Obviously political ads represent issues very important to us. Who we choose ultimately will shape our world and society for some time to come. I chose political ads for this blog post because it is one of the greatest showcases of wanting to either accept or not accept someone for their qualities. We are given a certain individual for which we know only of his/her most striking qualities. Deeper research and opinions, though, help shape a different view of someone opposite of whatever qualities are most glaring. This is much the same way that political ads try to sway your interest into choosing someone to take a certain role in office; but at the same time, you do not know the full story of someone or what someone may really be about until you learn of one's negative qualities (or what certain individuals deem as one's biggest negatives). While political ads and treating people in society offer two different levels of importance, both are similar in how we ultimately view people. When we see certain people, we have only a small idea of what a certain individual is all about. How we ultimately see people is a combination of the positive and negative qualities of someone including our own final judgment of if we are able to fully accept and admire a certain featured personality. Some people may even say, "Only God can judge me." For the most part, though, we only can love or loathe certain people based on what we are to believe as well as what is actually true about certain featured individuals.

Final Thoughts.

It is natural to judge people based on both positive and negative qualities. Whether or not you fully accept someone is your call and yours alone. Just remember that who you admire and celebrate are based on how you feel about someone and if just enough of that person's qualities are enough to make you think he/she is a great person. While average people may not be critical to consider loving or hating like with political ads, these matters are critical enough to help us determine whether we love or loathe someone. Maybe you celebrate someone despite their good and bad qualities while another person may loathe everything about that same person. You can be for, against, or neutral in regards to people. Regardless of your thoughts, it all ties into how one person is ultimately judged by society... just like with political ads.

So how should you take this topic? Simple- you are not required to agree with someone being completely positive or completely negative. We love people regardless of certain personalities and traits. No one will ever be perfect. No one may either be fully loveable. Life and society both have various elements where we love things for some reasons and loathe things for many other reasons. Life is not perfect, and society is not perfect, so why chase perfection? Learn to accept people as a whole so life and living can be prosperous and enjoyable despite peoples' qualities.





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Do you think political ads and life/society have a link? What similarities can you link between these two concepts?

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Comparing Successes

Everyone wants to be successful. When it comes to success, it involves your own success as well as the success of others. We often compare our success against others. A lot of times, comparing success is discouraged. That is mostly because we all have different levels of success including how we get such success. However, you do wonder how others compare in levels of success. Should you, though? This blog post is all about comparing successes.

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Comparing Successes

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You want to be successful, but you sometimes think about how your own success compares to others. I know there a lot of times when I hear of how some people wonder about what makes certain others so successful to begin with. As a common example, there are people who question the success of celebrities and families such as the Kardashians. I even recall some people who wonder about why some people are so successful and usually question what some are truly successful of. Is it ever okay to question success or wonder how your success compares to others? To discuss success comparisons proper, here are some talking points to get the discussion going.

Comparing Successes: Examples.

When I got my Associate's in the Arts at age 25 in 2008, I felt a bit miffed that most people my age would be further along in life than I have been I got my Associate's in the Arts. There are two sides to all of this. One side is that maybe I could have done better if I had better times in school and in life. Conversely, there are probably 25 year olds who may take longer to get to where I was or have never even enrolled in college. I can take this example further by saying that people at my age of 25 then probably are married, have children, and even living on their own.

Sometimes comparing success can also be like playing certain games. For example, you may have unlocked certain levels or characters while you are stuck somewhere 25% or 50% complete in the game. Everyone is different. There are surely a lot of games where I haven't unlocked as much content or accomplished certain things others can only dream of.

The most common comparison of success can usually be found in sports. People often compare stats and levels of success of teams and athletes. People may usually compare success the likes of (for example) LeBron James vs. Michael Jordan. Or maybe comparisons among teams could be like comparing the likes of the St. Louis Cardinals or New York Yankees of Major League Baseball. Even sports has its own comparisons of varying levels of success.

In cases like these, should people be ashamed that they don't have levels of success like others do? That is a feeling you are left with if you feel that your own success pales in comparison to what others in the same or similar fields have accomplished. It is making life an unnecessary competition in many cases.

Comparing Successes: Control What Only You Can Control!

Part of living life is about doing what you can take advantage of and worrying only about your own status. The problem is that we still think about trying to reach success as quickly and as impactful as possible. You sometimes have those, "if I could do it all over again..." conversations you respond to. You wish you maybe were in a better place or did certain things at a younger age. Thing is, you live only one life and have to make the most of what you have. You learn your lessons and apply what you learned to the future and with future generations.

Is Comparing Successes Okay?

Is it really okay to compare your success against others? Really, I think you should be blessed you've achieved success. Be thankful you've reached a level of personal happiness most people wished they can reach. While your own success is great, life shouldn't be a competition of who can be the most successful. If you have reached success you're happy with, you shouldn't try to rub in your own success when looking at others. It also helps not to feel like you have to be successful earlier in life as opposed to later in life. That topic, however, will require its own blog post. Thing is... just enjoy reaching success and making the most of what you have.

You want to be successful, but you do not want to make a habit of comparing your success with others. Success will come; just don't feel like you have to emulate someone else's success to be personally happy. Worry about trying to be a success on your own terms and through your own experiences. Don't try to compete with someone else with his/her own success level.

Comparing Successes: Final Thoughts.

Long story short- be as successful as you want to be, but don't go crazy trying to be the absolute best or showcase the absolute best level of success one can ever achieve. If you worry so much about other peoples' success, you feel like you can be happy only when your own success is better than what someone else's success. You feel like you can never be as successful as someone is, or at least you feel you should be more successful than other people. Enjoy success; just don't compare success to others. Your success shouldn't rely on trying to be more successful than others.

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Comparing Successes: Resources

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These resources will help you to realize that comparing your success to others is not a good idea. Take a look at these:

• 4 Steps to Stop Comparing Your Success to Others (Success Magazine)
• What Happens When I Compare Myself to 'Successful' People (The Art of Charm)
• The Key to Success? Not Comparing Yourself to Others (Psych Central)
• Why Comparing Yourself to Others Isn't Success (Coaching for Leaders)
• The Comparison Trap: How to Enjoy (and Not Envy) the Success of Others (99u)
• Life's Enough: Stop Comparing Yourself to Others (zen habits)


Maybe this can help you all, as I do with many of my posts here on John's Life Space.





If you want to discuss this topic further, feel free to discuss with this question:

Do you worry so much about the success of others compared to your own?

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