Posted on 12:02 AM | By KatieSham | In
is teaching me things. SCARY.
I was looking back at something I wrote on the night before the last day of 9th grade, and it made me smile. I was much more self-actualized then. That's a little pitiful.
Anyway, I edited it, added to it, and took away some things. But, for the most part, it all still holds true. A lot of it still sounds like the 9th grade me, but that's ok. I'm going to post it, even though no one appears to be reading any longer, I SHALL POST.
LIFE.
It's not always great.
It hardly ever goes like we planned and usually even less like we wanted it to. Things go wrong and things are messed up, people make mistakes, and say the wrong things.
But we have to learn to forgive. Because before we know it, the time has passed and our chance is gone. And there's no taking that moment back, no rewind or re-do button.
We have to learn to not regret anything we say or do. Because in the moment we said or did the wrong thing, we did exactly what we truly wanted to do.
We have to learn that people grow apart, not every one of our best friends will really stay our best friend. People change, grow apart, and make new friends.
We have to learn that change is the thing that shapes us, makes us who we are. Change tests us and pushes us to our limits. It tells us who we really, truly are.
We have to learn that our family really is the one thing that we can always count on. We can mess up, scream, and yell and they will still be there, ready to stand up for us even when we made the wrong choice.
We have to learn that sometimes, it's our friends that act more like family. Sometimes it's our friends who we can really count on to always be there when our families are unbearable.
We have to learn that at some point, we're going to have our hearts broken. And chances are, at least once, it’ll get broken by the one person we thought we could really trust. It’ll be the one person we swore we were in love with.
We have to learn that people don't always mean to hurt us. Sometimes it's simply that they've changed. And other times they realize that they didn't really love us, like we loved them. They know it's better to end it before it hurts any more than it has to.
We have to learn that some of the time, we have to believe in ourselves in order to get by. Sometimes no one, not even our closest friends and family will stand behind us. There will come a time when no one can understand why we’re struggling, and we’ll have to be the ones to pick ourselves up.
We have to learn to move on. We can’t experience new things until we’ve accepted the old.
We have to learn that we won’t always get along and agree with our best friends. They say that fighting can make a relationship stronger. No two people are exactly the same, no two people agree on everything.
We have to learn that we will get hurt. Our family will hurt us, our friends will hurt us, and the one person who said they’d never hurt us. But that’s ok, because if we move on, it can make us stronger.
And at some point, we have to accept that life's not perfect. But if we try our hardest to make it the best we can, if we forgive those that love us, if we’re as honest as we can be, and if we love as best we know how, it can come about as close as it gets.
I was looking back at something I wrote on the night before the last day of 9th grade, and it made me smile. I was much more self-actualized then. That's a little pitiful.
Anyway, I edited it, added to it, and took away some things. But, for the most part, it all still holds true. A lot of it still sounds like the 9th grade me, but that's ok. I'm going to post it, even though no one appears to be reading any longer, I SHALL POST.
LIFE.
It's not always great.
It hardly ever goes like we planned and usually even less like we wanted it to. Things go wrong and things are messed up, people make mistakes, and say the wrong things.
But we have to learn to forgive. Because before we know it, the time has passed and our chance is gone. And there's no taking that moment back, no rewind or re-do button.
We have to learn to not regret anything we say or do. Because in the moment we said or did the wrong thing, we did exactly what we truly wanted to do.
We have to learn that people grow apart, not every one of our best friends will really stay our best friend. People change, grow apart, and make new friends.
We have to learn that change is the thing that shapes us, makes us who we are. Change tests us and pushes us to our limits. It tells us who we really, truly are.
We have to learn that our family really is the one thing that we can always count on. We can mess up, scream, and yell and they will still be there, ready to stand up for us even when we made the wrong choice.
We have to learn that sometimes, it's our friends that act more like family. Sometimes it's our friends who we can really count on to always be there when our families are unbearable.
We have to learn that at some point, we're going to have our hearts broken. And chances are, at least once, it’ll get broken by the one person we thought we could really trust. It’ll be the one person we swore we were in love with.
We have to learn that people don't always mean to hurt us. Sometimes it's simply that they've changed. And other times they realize that they didn't really love us, like we loved them. They know it's better to end it before it hurts any more than it has to.
We have to learn that some of the time, we have to believe in ourselves in order to get by. Sometimes no one, not even our closest friends and family will stand behind us. There will come a time when no one can understand why we’re struggling, and we’ll have to be the ones to pick ourselves up.
We have to learn to move on. We can’t experience new things until we’ve accepted the old.
We have to learn that we won’t always get along and agree with our best friends. They say that fighting can make a relationship stronger. No two people are exactly the same, no two people agree on everything.
We have to learn that we will get hurt. Our family will hurt us, our friends will hurt us, and the one person who said they’d never hurt us. But that’s ok, because if we move on, it can make us stronger.
And at some point, we have to accept that life's not perfect. But if we try our hardest to make it the best we can, if we forgive those that love us, if we’re as honest as we can be, and if we love as best we know how, it can come about as close as it gets.
I'm still listening and reading! You keep writing and writing. I like the post above! It's good.....and very insightful! Impressive!
Love you!