It has been nearly 2 years since I updated my blog and the thing is I'm not even sure why I randomly felt like doing it! Blogging is a lot like keeping a journal and let's be honest, I can't remember the last time I kept a journal so it makes sense that it has been so flipping long! I had started using this blog for a class last spring and ya know, I thought that's just silly to put class stuff on what's supposed to be a personal blog so I did away with those posts. Sorry for any of you were all too disappointed to no longer hear my gender rants and the like.
I don't even know how many people see this. The fewer the better though probably because then not as many people will see this crazy side of not-so-put-together Sarah Beth. Ha but for the purpose of today's blog I really just want to talk about me and some thoughts I've been having lately. I think I've discovered something about myself and that is I really wish I was a more positive person. Hence, the renaming of this blog.
I think as humans it so dang easy to get wrapped up in the craziness of life. I had one of those "AHA" moments as Oprah would call them when a friend of mine whom I am working on a class project with told me he was having a bad day. He brought it up in the middle of the project so I didn't want to press the issue but when I later asked he told me he found out yesterday that he has brain aneurism that his doctors can't reach. It will continue to grow for the next 20 years until he'll eventually die.
This man is in his late 20's. He has a wife and a daughter and has already been put on a time-table for his life. I didn't really know what to say other than, "Wow, I'm so sorry. I hope you can really live up the next 20 years." Right after I said that though I just thought about what that meant. Will I ever be put on a time-table and not know if this is it and I still have so much more I want to do?
In writing this blog it's helped me sort out some thoughts and feelings I've had about this. Even though I'm still young and, as far as I know, (God willing) I have plenty of time left in life it made me think about the cliche "Not taking things for granted." But honestly, there really is far too much I do. My house, my family, my friends, the town I live in, the school I go to and my own health, are only a few of the many things I take for granted every single day that anyone else would kill for.
Carpe Diem ya'll is all I have left to say. Until next time, hopefully sooner than 2 years.
