Found this on my little sisters Facebook and I have to say it truly applies.
"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that
you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them
when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no
one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things
can fall together."-Marilyn Monroe
I don't know the reasons why things happen the way they do. Some say luck, karma, cursed, a higher power, faith, destiny or whatever else you can say for why things happen just "right" or just "wrong" but they happen. Mostly though what I have learned is that life is a process of growing and understanding yourself.
I continue daily to be surprised by the doors that are opened and though I believe that is might be luck or karma. I mostly believe that it is my own doing. My get up and go attitude and never give up when a door closes. However I wish this applied to love. That is the one thing that we really have no control over. You simply have to trust in your feelings. CRAZY, lol but life.
Also by finding this on my younger sisters facebook it makes me realize that she is growing up and is about to embark on life's roller coaster and I wish for her to learn easy and to not have too hard of lessons to learn. However I have grown my most in the hardest of times so maybe what I wish for more then anything is for her to always be surrounded by people who love her and support her. That is what truly helps someone in hard times.
Continue to dream big and know that you will achieve it.
I will end this with the quote that always keeps me going. The one my stepdad told me at a very young age.
"Whether you think that you can, or you think that you can't, you are right" - Henry Ford
Friday, August 20, 2010
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Quote
"You can't travel through time, but you can send your thoughts and hopes into the future to camp out and wait for you to arrive there, where you'll meet up and hug and decide that everything is alright again." -John Mayer
Thursday, August 5, 2010
The Count Down
As my 30th birthday approaches I find that I am having many interesting conversations with people about turning 30. Most people are asking if I am ok? LOL this simply makes me laugh. I think the fact that people ask you if you are ok is what makes you question if you are ok. I never thought I wasn't ok until you asked me that. hmmm... LOL well I am ok :)
One of the conversations that I had with several of my students (girls) that are 19. I asked them where do they see themselves in 10 years. Mostly this got responses of married and starting a family or already having a family. This made me think back to when I was 20 and where I thought I would be. I guess my thoughts were very similar to theirs. I honestly thought that I would be one of the first to marry of my friends and start a family. I thought this mostly because when I dated someone it was always serious. I never held back my feelings. I would simply jump into the deep end! I guess you can say I love with my whole heart, mind and body. But what I have learned is that I have been burned a few times for this however I don't see this as a part of me that will change. I may become a little more guarded but without risk there is no great reward. Life is sometimes meant to be scary. If we knew what was coming next we all would be flat lined of emotion and I NEVER want to feel that way.
In the end I told the girls that I am excited to be 30. I have no regrets and I have accomplished things that most people my age have not. I gave up two years of my life for service to live in the woods with at risk teen girls, I then dedicated a year to a group home where I was the house mother to 5 teenage girls who needed guidance, I have TRAVELED to many places, I have traveled alone and found peace in that, I have learned to pick my friends well (no more mean girls!), I am educated and continuing :), and mostly I have learned to love and take risks! I am secure in who I am and it feels great. So I can't wait to see what adventures my 30's will bring.
One of the conversations that I had with several of my students (girls) that are 19. I asked them where do they see themselves in 10 years. Mostly this got responses of married and starting a family or already having a family. This made me think back to when I was 20 and where I thought I would be. I guess my thoughts were very similar to theirs. I honestly thought that I would be one of the first to marry of my friends and start a family. I thought this mostly because when I dated someone it was always serious. I never held back my feelings. I would simply jump into the deep end! I guess you can say I love with my whole heart, mind and body. But what I have learned is that I have been burned a few times for this however I don't see this as a part of me that will change. I may become a little more guarded but without risk there is no great reward. Life is sometimes meant to be scary. If we knew what was coming next we all would be flat lined of emotion and I NEVER want to feel that way.
In the end I told the girls that I am excited to be 30. I have no regrets and I have accomplished things that most people my age have not. I gave up two years of my life for service to live in the woods with at risk teen girls, I then dedicated a year to a group home where I was the house mother to 5 teenage girls who needed guidance, I have TRAVELED to many places, I have traveled alone and found peace in that, I have learned to pick my friends well (no more mean girls!), I am educated and continuing :), and mostly I have learned to love and take risks! I am secure in who I am and it feels great. So I can't wait to see what adventures my 30's will bring.
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