lessons learned...

I was recently asked the other day what was the biggest/ most important lesson I've learned so far this year. After thinking about the question for several minutes I realized that the re isn't just one lesson that I've learned and to have to pick just one would be pretty close to impossible. I have been learning, growing a lot since the start of this school year but I doubt that I'd be where I am now if 2008 hadn't started the way that it did.





Lesson #1- It's okay to say what you're thinking or feeling, and to admit when something isn't okay in your book. You are allowed to not smile all the time, shrug everything off, and to not have to be chill all the time. The thing is you were given a very wide range of emotions so use them. Cry, scream, jump up and down, yell, question your assumptions, and you're even allowed to smile.


- This lesson happens to be compliments of my mother... and while it may seem like common sense to most of you, it is truely something that I have "struggled" with. I have never really been much of a cryer, I am usually very chill, it takes A LOT for me to get mad, so I usually just sit back and take things in stride. I just go with it, I may not always like the situation but it's my way of dealing with it. Or rather running from it.





Lesson #2- Prayer is a powerful thing and time spent with the big guy upstairs is time well spent. First you just have to make it a priority in your life.



-This is more of a continual reminder but it's still something that I feel I have learned this year. Its amazing how things in your life can change in almost the blink on an eye. The first 6 days of the new year are kinda just a blur for me, but what I do remember was that in those 6 days I learned that someone very near and dear to my heart was beginning their battle with cancer. Not exactly the way anyone wants to start off a new year but it has truely been a learning experience for me.

Lesson #3- You can't make something out of nothing.

-Have you ever thought about how much easier it would be/ it is to be in a relationship with the people closest to you or those that you hang out with the most are also in one. The problem with this way of thinking is that you attempt to make something out of basically nothing. What I mean by this is that you start to create feelings that really may not be there in the first place.