Learning to Love where I'm at

So...I was reading O Magazine. This week actually.

One of the main articles was about writing a Six Word Autobiography about yourself.

It's meant to be revealing, and completely captivating all in just six words!

I was working on this over and over again in my head, and came to standstill every time.

I just couldn't come up with six little words (it's much harder than it sounds).

I finally, while getting my hair cut at my local salon came to find MY six word Auto-biography:

Learning to Love where I'm at.


I was a little wary as to what it might co notate, perhaps ideas that I am forcing myself to love where I'm at, or what I'm doing, but I came to accept the idea that I was not forcing myself to love where I'm at, but rather, to learn to create a life I can love where I'm at.

It's hard living life, I think we're all aware of that. There are romances that become heart breaks, lives that become death, people who come and go, jobs which are lost, and every day mercies that just don't seem fair, and it's hard to see the silver-lining sometimes.

But I've found that with the good must come the bad. With the happy must come the sad, and I am so grateful for those oppositions. When I think of them, I know that what is happening is meant to happen. It's beautiful how life works in those mysterious ways.

A friend of  mine, his sister, just shared a beautiful story about a very important gentleman who has left her life. Her strength amongst trial is truly admirable, and is my inspiration for this post. But whether it be the loss of someone dear to us, or whether it be a lonely-heart break, by a man--neither is minuscule, both impact our lives in ways that change them, and help us to realize life...life is meant to lived and learned. Life is meant to hurt, only to reap the goodness.

May we move forward every day learning to be better than yesterday.

"To God be the Glory."
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I'm 18 going on 20

It's amazing how two years can change your entire life. I am constantly amazed at the persona I WAS when I was eighteen. Now, being twenty (although still completely naive) I have learned so much about myself, about life, about school, about men, about dating, and about so many other aspects of life that have influenced me to become better.

It makes me smile the growth I have been able to accomplish in just a mere two years. I am so lucky. I am so happy. It has taken a lot of hard work, a whole bunch of luck, and even more love that has influenced me now.

I can't even imagine what life is going to bring me in the next ten years with as much as life has brought me in the last two.

It's rad.
It's wonderful.

It's on.