Cindy Lou Who

Here I am watching the Grinch with my roommates and it reminded me of some things I've been thinking about for the last week.


I don't think it's about whether we are the Grinch or not, but whether we are like some of the Whovilles and the Whoville mayor, or Cindy Lou Who.


People like the Whoville mayor care about status and items of great worth more than people of great worth.  They are the kinds of people who judge others.  The Whoville mayor defined the Grinch as a bad person.  He saw no good in him and brought out all of his flaws.


I think there is already too much criticism and judgement in this world.  There's too much gossip, negativity, and hard feelings.  Where are all of the Cindy Lou Who's?  Because of his actions and looks, the Grinch was judged as being heartless.  But all it took was a little girl to believe in him and he changed.  She knew that just because she couldn't see his heart, didn't mean he didn't have one.  Instead of looking at his obvious flaws, she searched for the good inside of him.  And she found it.


And as we look for the good in others, we will find it, too.  


The Grinch was treated poorly, so he acted poorly.  As soon as one seemingly insignificant person treated him with kindness, he felt the love inside his heart and showed it.  All it takes is one person. All it takes is one person to believe in the good in another for a heart to grow three sizes.


We are all children of God, we all have good, we all have bad.What matters is what we choose to act on.  And when the prophets teach us about charity, it doesn't mean serving others by fixing them.  It's not about picking out their flaws to make them change.  It's about picking out the goodness in their hearts that already exists.  We all chose to come to this earth to prove ourselves and make it back to our Heavenly Father to live with those we love for eternity.  We are all on the same team.  We should be helping each other to be our best selves and to show the good.  We should be helping each other to make it back to our Heavenly Father.


Maybe we should prove that there is good in this world instead of proving that there is bad.  We already know that there is bad in this world.  Just watch the news and you'll see, because that's almost all they focus on.  But it doesn't mean we should do the same.


There's so much good in others and so much good in this world.  I just think it's a waste of life to ignore that.  
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson


In my opinion, there should be more Cindy Lou Who's.



"Besides the world isn't split up into good people and death eaters, we've all got both light and dark inside of us. What matters is the part we choose to act on."






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