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| Nothing beats a Washington Sunset! |
Life is full of big distractions and fancy pleasures. Sometimes it can be really hard to appreciate the little things in life, even for myself. I am currently 4 classes away from completing my Associate's Degree. The general studies potion at least. I should graduate with an AA this winter, I will once again next Tuesday have to conquer math once again, on the ACT. A college entrance exam that some people like more then others. I've taken this test three times. I took it that many times in high school, which was 4 years ago for me. I think this time around I will be better off, because of the
world knowledge which I have acquired. (haha yeah right) This test will determine where I can go to university, I haven't even decided yet what schools to look into, I just know the school I want to go to AFTER university, a government medical school in Maryland. That's years down the road, if ever to happen.
Life can change at any moment, I do realize that, though I am very inflexible. I like things to stay the same, but I know that they cannot, no matter how hard I try to ensure things go 'according to plan'. In my own perfect world I try to plan as far ahead, sometimes further ahead then others are comfortable with. In the end things always turn out much different then I imagined. Sometimes it's nice to appreciate what I have, instead of worrying so much over what I don't have, momentarily it helps me feel a bit better from what I lack in life and whatever I am missing at the moment. I have an apartment and was given an entire bedroom set, real wood, complete with queen size mattress, dressers, a dinner table, a couch, an armchair, and even an office desk. Sometimes kind people come along unexpectedly, this person was going to take all of the furniture he gave me to the dump, but was kind enough to give to me no charge.
After paying for my paid off 08' KIA Optima, given to me by father, and the apartment
deposit, I
was in no position to purchase any furniture. Infact I slept on the floor for
over a month! Until this nice person did something for me that in the near
future I could probably never pay back. I hope one day I can do something just
as generous for another as he had done for me, it’s people like that, that do
things that are just so out of the ordinary that you never forget. I also never
forget people who hurt me. I feel pain for a long time from them, if not in a
way always, but eventually I try to turn the sadness into something positive.
Something I can refer back to that helped shape me and helped make me stronger.
It isn’t easy, and there are many times I still think about the hurt I felt as
opposed to all I accomplished despite the obstacles and hindrances that were
imposed upon me by those people. The other day I went to a beautiful place
about an hour and half from where I live, called Lake Cushman, if you aren’t
from a state or country where there are lush green forests with white capped
mountains in the background, accompanied by vast bodies of fresh lake water,
then this is the place you have dreamed about seeing. I felt such a peace and
calm staring out at the vastness of the mountains, lake and valley. The scenery
was so great yet so quiet, it was what I would describe a nice ‘zen’ moment.
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| A waterfall that a friend and I found in the woods near Lake Cushman! So calming and mesmerizing! |
