christmas eve lunch
burgers and fries...
christmas traditions...
today was another year of bowling on chrismtas eve. it is something i look forward to ever year, not because i like bowling but because i love spending time with my family. it amazes me how much people change and grow up in a single year. i can't believe how grown up my little cousins look and there are constantly new additions to the family. i am just like time needs to sloooooow down. i mean 2012 is almost over!!! how did the time go so fast. i remember last christmas eve so perfectly. i was reading my journal from a year ago and i am like so much has changed but remained the same. i am still me but with new experiences and life lesson that i didn't have last year.
2012 was a great year. i enjoyed the experiences that i had and life lessons that i learned. i can honestly say that this year more than any other year was very significant to me. it was significant because i felt that i really grew up a lot and realized so much about myself and the kind of person i am. it's like you think you know yourself until you go through something hard, something challenging, or something you haven't gone through before. experiences really do shape us and they influence us. with each of life's experiences of course comes mistakes, and... if we are smart enough we learn from our mistakes. you figure it out but until you figure it out life seems like a totally mess. however, if there is something i have learned from my experiences this last semester is that sometimes life just doesn't make sense. sometimes life is hard and we have to be okay with not knowing all the answers all at once. if we try to figure things out or try to fix things too quick we most always will dig ourselves into a deeper hole. we just have to be patient and realize, that in time we can look back and see how it eventually all makes sense. sometimes i am so confused and then i think just breathe, be patient and enjoy yourself and life will eventually work itself out.
there is a quote by C.S Lewis that i absolutely love.
it says....
"isn't it funny how by day nothing changes
but when you look back everything is different"
