Happiness is a State of Mind

This past weekend was Military Ball, which you would think would be a big deal for cadets, but really is not. As cadets, we were all expected to attend and I wore the ugliest uniform on the face of the planet… Mess Dress. This female uniform is a floor length, black skirt, worn with black pumps and a white, ruffled shirt worn with an equally atrocious white blazer with overhanging maroon shoulder boards, giving the affect of a 1930s waitress. I call it Birth Control Bag.

Besides the horrible uniform, each freshman training company also paints a banner. Unfortunately, each company tends to only have one artist and end up painting the night before the event. Even more unfortunately, I was one of the few that stayed up the entire night, finishing the banner at 8:30 that morning.

It’s sort of funny because the upperclassmen make such a big deal about this event and I only ended up staying an hour. Military Ball is the event which marks the start of the final phase of freshman training, which also marks the receiving of some privileges. (Yay!)

Although the military event was a “let-down”, my weekend was not without its fun. I pulled an all-nighter on Friday, but because I did, I bonded more closely with one of my buds who I did not know as well. After I left Military Ball Saturday night, I hung out with one of my female buds and we went to Starbuck’s while doing laundry, hung out in the civilian dorms and made a random Wal*Mart run at midnight. After getting back to the dorms at 2:00 in the morning, we had a fun party in my room, where we cooked the frozen foods we bought from Wal*Mart.

The point is although we encounter crappy situations, most of us tend to only dwell on the bad stuff that happens to us and not the good. I would say that overall, my weekend was awesome. It is in my opinion that we choose to be. Happiness is a state of mind; if you want to be happy, you will be. It doesn’t matter what actually happens; what is important is what you choose to remember.