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Showing posts with label lesson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lesson. Show all posts

Monday, June 15, 2009

Old enough to know but young enough not to care



I know the above saying sounds rather shameless and overly ignorant but it really pains me on how true it is. I'm turning 20 in about 2 more days...and its astonishing to think how some things just never seem to change. I know we all learn new lessons on a day to day basis but our personalities and our ways of thinking really prevent so many of us from actually growing up. I feel at this age we all know from right and wrong...and what actions we should take.

but....

knowing is only the easy part...the difficult part is learning how to obey that little voice we hear inside our head. Its taken me 20 years to finally know most right and wrong; what actions to take during certain situations, but i wonder how many more years itll take for me to be able to mature enough so I can be able to follow through with what I know to be right.

I leave Japan tomorrow. Kent is picking me up at the airport. My mom's birthday is the next day. The day after that is my birthday and am planning to celebrate it in SD :] As much as I love my grandpa and Japan, I am freaking STOKED to be going back home <3

Monday, June 8, 2009

Ode to Joy


So today i was having one of those days. where you feel the world has turned on you and you would rather just crawl inside your bed for the rest of the day...maybe even the entire week. What I failed to realize was that all the 'issues' I was having were not problems at all....they were just all misinterperated blessings. A nagging mom, a pestering grandpa, time of the month, and painful jaw. It was really getting on my nerves but after calming down and getting my mind off of it for several hours I realized I wasn't seeing the issues for what they really were; A worried mother, an anxious grandpa, a healthy body, and recovery of a wisdom tooth extraction. All of which I should be completely grateful for... aside from the extraction. (Although I guess I should be thankful).

Most of the time when I'm having those days. All I have to do is pause and rethink my life and I soon realize I am truly lucky....... but its so hard to find the pause button in such a fast passed life we all live in these days. So for the rest of my time in Japan I'm going to try to cherish the time I have here and the time I have left with my grandpa. I didn't realize till today that I hadn't been in Japan for 3 years. No wonder he is bouncing up and down the walls trying to keep me happy.

I wish I had realized this all sooner =( I feel bad for not having spent more time with him. We are going out to lunch tomorrow though and then after my dentist appointment I promised to cook him dinner. This time I'm not going to fuck it up!!! ♥