Being Thankful for Life

Well folks, for those of you who don't know...today is the day before I head out to Madison for my orientation! I'm feeling more than blessed and excited to start my next life's adventure at such an amazing school. However, as today ends, I'm feeling extremely grateful for all that I have in my life. To be honest, my social groups and people I used to call my friends have shifted as well in my world, and truthfully...I couldn't be any happier. Although it hurt to see the shift happen, I truly believe I'm happier and better off where I am now. Some people are only in our lives for a season! I'm also thankful that I'm a child of God, taking my mistakes, learning from them, and becoming a better me. Goodnight friends!

              

Recognizing Pain and Weakness

Sometimes, people try to hurt us in life. Actually...correction: All the time. However, we have to be able to recognize the pain we receive and do something about it. That's the thing I've been struggling with today in particular. I recognize that I'm hurt and need help, I got help, but I still can't seem to dismiss the cause of it. It's hard to let go of things you once loved. It's like your mind says "stop it and throw it away out of your life," but your heart says, "but there's always hope for a better ending!" Anyways, that's how I'm feeling and I don't know how else to describe that silly word, "love." 

Knowing Myself and Needs

I feel like sometimes we just have to realize what we need individually. There are times in life where we have to be selfish and think what is the best for our own self. For me personally, I have realized that I need to focus on who I am and my destination. By that, I mean- what direction do I want my life to go in and what's going to be my next step? I can tell you right now it's most certainly not with a guy. I feel like realizing that I don't need a guy to be happy has been the biggest obstacle I have overcome this summer. Growing in who I am and realizing my own needs before I'm able to reach out and help other people is most important to me. I like to think of it this way: you can't help broken people if your broken yourself. And with that, here's my selfie (:

        

My Favorite Time of Year (:

The Fourth of July <3 is my ultimate favorite holiday of the entire year. Do you know why? I guess it's just the atmosphere with summer grilling, couples laughing & cuddling together, fireworks going off, and riding in the back seat of dad's car at night with the window rolled down and music blasting. I love this day. It's a day that's also a reminder that this year is half way over, and it gives me a chance to think about all I've done and would like to accomplish for the rest of the year. We all have our favorite holidays, and this one just happens to be mine. Happy Fourth friends! (:

Memories to Shine

Today as I woke up, I began to think of random things (like usual). Actually, I tend to think about memories with special people in my life. But as I was thinking...I started to wonder how life would be if you could chose what memories you wanted to keep and which ones to erase from your brain? I mean, that's why breakups are so hard, right? Because of the memories and fun times you had? Or how about if your friend backstabbed you and now you just want to erase them from your life? This would be amazing if we could erase things from our memories, but then I guess we wouldn't be able to learn from our mistakes and experiences. I feel like that's the best part of life- living and learning. If we were to erase all memories that hurt us, then we wouldn't remember to tell our future self not to do the same thing over again. So Praise The Lord for our memories that save us from future pain! So I guess we're all living and learning together to make a better future for ourselves. I mean, the worst that could possibly happen is that we get to tell our grandchildren what we learned in life? Sounds good to me (: