Elder Packer in General Conference April 1989 said," I know that you sometimes feel that life isn't fair; why can't you have things that others have. You even wonder why you can't be somebody else and exchange your body with someone who appears to be more beautiful or handsome or talented or brighter or stronger or thinner; or change personalities with someone who is not so shy or blundering or frightened as you are.
Sometimes you wonder why you can't trade your parents for some better ones. No need to apologize; they sometimes wish they could trade you for someone easier to live with. But parents and grandparents make allowances for those feelings. After all, we are just teenagers who have evened out a few of our frustrations so that they don't show as much as they did when we were your age. And someday, soon enough, you are going to be us!"
You may not be able to control every outcome of your life, just like when you are little and your mom makes you eat your vegetables, but you CAN choose your attitude. Moaning and groaning at the dinner table doesn't make your vegetables disappear any faster. If you would just eat them, you would be able to carry on with their life and not be miserable....plus you would be healthy.
We each have a choice. No matter how or where we grew up, no matter the circumstance we can learn from it and make a conscious decision of how we will choose to live our lives. Just because a certain trait or attribute has been in a family for as long as you remember doesn't mean you cant make a choice to change it. It wont necessarily be easy but it may well be worth it!
when our twins were little, we were sitting at the dinner table, one of them said to the other, "Do we like this?"
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