Realizations

I know it's been a while since my last blog update. In the midst of Christmas crazyness and the end of semester there has just been no time. This post is going to be a little different than previous ones. I have been thinking about this one for a while and I wanted to write about one that pertained to events that had happened this year and some realizations that I have come up with due to the result of those events. Basically it's a post about what I have learned in the year 2011 and some changes I have tried to make in my life reflect those things.

- This year was a year that there were too many deaths of young people that I either knew or knew of. Being 20, it's hard to even wrap your head around the fact that you have to attend a funeral for someone your age. At this age we should be celebrating new life's entering the world or couple getting married- not losing someone so young. After losing a friend over the summer, I have tried to make some changes in my life. It's easy to say that you have all the time in the world to go and hangout with someone if you hadn't seen them in a while. During the years I found myself blowing them off because I knew there would always be another day that I was able to meet up with them. But then, what if one day you get a phone call saying they are gone. There is no way you can bring that person back and wish when you did run into them around time, that you talked to them for 5 minutes longer, or didn't cancel meeting up for a coffee. You can never bring that back. So, my challenge to you for 2012, call up that friend you havn't seen in a while. Grab a coffee, drink, whatever. Say I love you to someone everyday. Whether it's a family member, friend, dog, cat, I don't care. You can't say it enough.

- Work hard for what you want? Easy enough right? Not really.  This summer, my goal was to go buy a new truck. With hard work over the summer and figuring out my priotories, I was able to go buy one. Now my plan for 2012? Once I'm done school I plan to look for a place to move into with my friend. Postive thinking and it will happen!!

- Push your limits. Step outside your comfort zone and try and do something different. This is still something I need to work on. it's so easy to get stuck in the same routine and to hangout with the same people, go out to the same places and not try to meet anyone else. It's that comfort feeling and its what feels familar but with doing that, you arn't pushing your personal limits always and life can get boring! Change it up!!

- Smile, smile, smile. Short, sweet & simple. Don't let people know you're having a bad day.

So thats my mini list. I'll probably add a few more if I come up with some more.

Happy holidays :)

With Love, Krysta