"life is too short to wake up with regrets. ♥ So love the people who treat you right. ♥ Forget about the ones who don't. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a second chance, grab it with both hands. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would be worth it." These words I promise to live by. I cannot and will not waste anymore of my time on people who have mistreated me. My life is mine and nothing or no one can change that. I have power over my own destiny and how my life is. Today and everyday I choose that I will live with no regrets. Happiness is a journey, not a destination after all. :)
Have a great day and remember that it's not where you end up that matters its how you get there and the people that touch your heart along the way that do.
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Monday, May 31, 2010
Families are Forever
Family is one of the greatest blessings our Father in Heaven has given us. They are there for us in our best moments and in our worst. This weekend was all about family, past and present.
My mom was able to come up and spend the weekend up in Provo which I was thrilled about. Then on Saturday we went with my cousins and aunts and grandparents to Kamas where part of my Grandma Wrights' family is buried. We met up with some of her sisters and their families and listened to several of the stories about those who we had come to pay our respects to. It was really interesting to hear the some of the stories of my great grandparents and their children.
Sunday was a typical Sunday. Dinner at my Aunt and Uncle's and then card games at my grandparents' house followed by a movie at my cousins apartment. :)
Monday, Memorial Day was another great time to honor our ancestors. This time we went up to Logan to visit my Grandpa's side of the family. This was more interesting for me because I actually knew some of my relatives that I was visiting. I will always remember my great Grandma Wright reading me stories as a little girl. After that my cousins and I had a picnic where we played games, ate delicious food and had an amazing day.
As I enjoyed the company of the some of the people that truly matter the most to me in the world, and visit those who have gone before me and given me some of my most precious gifts. I looked around me and realized just how grateful I was for all of my family, past and present. I spent my memorial day weekend the best way I possibly could have, with the greatest people I know, I spent it with my family.
Monday, May 24, 2010
Don't Sweat the Small Stuff
Life as a college student has its ups and downs just like everything else in life. However, why does it sometimes feel like the "ups" are short sweet moments and the "downs" are long and drawn out?
Between roommate drama and the schoolwork that just keeps piling up no matter how much I try to prevent it from doing so, some days I want to just hop on the next plane to Australia, (or better yet to California).
However, every time everything seems to be spiraling down I get that little breath of fresh air that allows me to keep moving forward.
This time I have been fortunate enough for that to come in two parts. The first being a trip out and far away from Provo to a great place I like to call paradise, (aka Layton, Ut and my cousins house) where I can rest, rejuvenate, and relax. It's a beautiful place. :)
The second part of this weeks "upward climb" came from a phone call from my dad. As I explained all that I had to accomplish this upcoming week and my frustration with what I perceived that was not going as well as I would have hoped, both at school and with my personal life, he gave me two pieces of advice to succeeding:
1. don't sweat the small stuff
2. everything's the small stuff.
Have I mentioned how much i love my dad? Now he didn't mean to stop trying or not to do my absolute best. What he meant was that I have to learn that I can't control every little detail of my life and that whether or not I get an 'A' on my paper or in a certain class; all I have to do is do my best because looking back ten, twenty years from now it's not that paper or that class that I'm going to remember but how hard I work and whether or not I did my absolute best. So that's my new goal, to work hard, do my best and not let the "down hill" part of life become larger than it is.
Between roommate drama and the schoolwork that just keeps piling up no matter how much I try to prevent it from doing so, some days I want to just hop on the next plane to Australia, (or better yet to California).
However, every time everything seems to be spiraling down I get that little breath of fresh air that allows me to keep moving forward.
This time I have been fortunate enough for that to come in two parts. The first being a trip out and far away from Provo to a great place I like to call paradise, (aka Layton, Ut and my cousins house) where I can rest, rejuvenate, and relax. It's a beautiful place. :)
The second part of this weeks "upward climb" came from a phone call from my dad. As I explained all that I had to accomplish this upcoming week and my frustration with what I perceived that was not going as well as I would have hoped, both at school and with my personal life, he gave me two pieces of advice to succeeding:
1. don't sweat the small stuff
2. everything's the small stuff.
Have I mentioned how much i love my dad? Now he didn't mean to stop trying or not to do my absolute best. What he meant was that I have to learn that I can't control every little detail of my life and that whether or not I get an 'A' on my paper or in a certain class; all I have to do is do my best because looking back ten, twenty years from now it's not that paper or that class that I'm going to remember but how hard I work and whether or not I did my absolute best. So that's my new goal, to work hard, do my best and not let the "down hill" part of life become larger than it is.
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