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.