This picture was taken two years ago today.
Two years ago I graduated high school. I was dead set determined that I knew what I was going to do with my life. I was going to get married less than a month later, work for two years and then go back to school for myself to become an elementary teacher.
Things on that path have definitely changed. While some followed through a lot of them did change in ways that two years ago I never would have expected them to. Today I sat in the bleachers of Paris R-II High School again, this time as an onlooker of the graduation of my best friend. She has been there for me through everything and I don't know what I would do without her.
Danielle is the best friend that I gained and kept through high school. She has been the one who has seen me through the hard times of everything from divorce to my first test and finals that I experienced my freshman year of college and I have seen her through some things as well.
At this time in my life I have changed my path. I just finished my freshman year of college. As planned I started out as an education major to become an elementary teacher only to change my mind along the way through the first semester and realize that I truly wanted to go into psychology and be a counselor. I met Brendan in the process of this second semester and don't know what I would do without him. One thing I do know is that I wouldn't have passed Art History with a 99% if it hadn't been for him pushing me to study and us studying together for those tests that set us so high up in the class from the very beginning.
Another thing that I have learned from the past two years is not to be afraid of change. You can't change things that happen to you and you can't make them go the way you planned all of the time. It really just doesn't work that way. You just have to let things go the way that they are set out for you and follow those plans as they come along. Sometimes things aren't at all the way they seemed to be in the beginning and those change you, but they can change you for the better. In the end it all works out for you and you find new experiences that you never would have known about it your original plans panned out.
So once again, I want to say congratulations to Danielle, the gorgeous best friend that I could ask for and a sister that I never had as well as congratulations to all of the other graduates of 2014, be it pre-schoolers, high schoolers, or college graduates! You all are set out to do great things and if you put your mind to it, it will happen!
"Just because your path is dark now doesn't mean that you won't see light again. Maybe it just means you need to open a new door or pull that blindfold off your eyes to reveal the brightest light you have ever seen." - Shelby Baclesse (ME!)
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