Cherish every moment like its the last

Our task for this week’s blog is to write about a life lesson we have learned throughout our life. I guess the lesson that really applies in my life right now is to cherish every moment like it is your last, whether it is with a person or something that you are doing. Recently, one of my really good friends and I had a falling out and we do not speak or even look at each other anymore. This is difficult for me because I would tell this person everything. If I had a problem in my life, I would talk to him about it because I knew there would be no judgment. Since that friendship is now gone, I have been more grateful for what it was in the past. I didn’t always appreciate the friendship. I might have even messed it up myself. I now regret taking everything for granted. I now know that I need to cherish every moment with the people that I care for because it may be gone one day. It can be gone so fast that you didn’t even see it coming.

My Better Half

        

The prompt for this blog is most fitting for the time of the school year. It is drawing near the time that us seniors, class of 2013, spread our wings from our nest and embark on the most terrifying journey, life. Mrs. Caffey asked us to write about someone we have met in high school that has influenced our lives greatly. I cannot think of anyone else other than my best friend Victoria Treiber; or as everyone here knows her as, Tori.

            I met Tori my freshman year at my previous high school back in Orlando. When I first met her, I did not get the best first impression. I thought she would be fake and rude because she looked like most of the girls at the school who did act like that. I know that is very shallow. We started to talk more often and I started to trust her. Within no time, she and I were inseparable. We did everything together. If people invited one of us places, they knew that we would be with each other. We were a package deal.

            We have been through a lot together as well. From being best friends freshman year, to absolutely hating each other sophomore year, then back to being best friends our junior and senior year. Through everything, we never stopped knowing we were always there for each other. Even at times when we detested one another, we would still talk to one another if we had problems in our lives and we just needed someone to talk to.

            Through our entire friendship, she has taught me many things about life. She has taught me that no one can bring me down beside myself. She taught me that I need to be less of a push over when it comes to people asking me for favors. She taught me I need to love myself before anyone else can ever love me.

            She is my other half. I can always tell her anything and I know she will never judge me for anything. I will never forget her and I hope that we stay friends for as long as we are alive. 

 

Two Lights

It was just two lights, two lights that changed my life forever all because someone decided to drink and drive.

            As most of you know, I was born in Show Low and lived there till I was in third grade. The summer when I was in second grade my cousin came and visited me and my family. I always loved it when he came and visited us. He was like an older brother to me. One night my mom and dad decided that it would be a good idea to order pizza and have a movie night. At the time we lived in Vernon; so we had to drive to Show Low to pick up the pizza my parents had ordered. They had asked my cousin to drive into town to pick it up. I really wanted to go with him. I begged and begged until I had gotten my way. My mother did make us take this old 1950’s dodge that was made of complete steel.

            On the way to Show Low, I was already getting tired. I remember the ride there perfectly. The sun was just about to go down over the mountains in the horizon and there were a few clouds in the sky. I remember looking up at the clouds at one point and I swear that I saw the words “love you” written in the sky. I didn’t point it out to my cousin because I didn’t think anything of it at that point.

            On the way back from Show Low, it was completely dark. We were driving on just a two lane road. I don’t remember that ride home that much. I remember is almost falling asleep and then it happened. Two lights appeared in front of my cousin and me out of nowhere. It’s all black after that. I remember the sound of the crash. I do not remember what it looked like though. Then, next thing I knew, I was lying on the back of a stranger’s bed of their truck just screaming, “I want my daddy! I want my daddy!” I had no idea what had just happened. Everything was fine that entire night.

            My dad appeared next to me and he was crying. That was the only time I had ever seen him cry.

            I was taken to the hospital after and luckily I walked away from the accident with just a broken collar bone. The officers that reported to the accident that night told my parents that it's a miracle that my cousin and I survived that crash. I later found out that the guy that had hit me and my cousin was a drunk driver. His girlfriend had just broken up with him so he went to a bar to get drunk, then upon leaving he decided that he wanted to kill himself, my cousin and I just happened to be that solution.

            I guess my entire reason for this is to share to everyone that drinking and driving is never alright. I’m not saying to not ever drink because that would be hypocritical of me. Just be smart when you do drink. It is because of that guy’s reckless decision that I have anxiety whenever I am on a two lane road and if I get close to being in an accident I break down and cry. Just think before your decisions.

 

Happiness

As I sit here in my room, I had absolutely no idea what I want to write my blog about, then it hit me. When I first moved to Holbrook and I told people I was from Florida, they all looked at me like I was crazy. Many would say, “You’re crazy!” or “I would never leave Florida for a place like Holbrook…” At first, I thought I was a little crazy. I was leaving the hustle and bustle of a beautiful town to come to a place that has three stop signs, and the most exciting news is a new gas station being built in town. After being here for the short time I have, I have realized that moving to Holbrook has been the best thing I have done for myself in a long time.

            When I first decided to come here, my best friend was telling me that I was selfish because I was leaving behind everything I have in Orlando. I mean yes, I had a few friends and my dad, but I just was not happy living there. I used outlets that I should not have there just to make myself feel happy. Being in Holbrook, I have not had the need to do that once. I have made so many friends here that are closer than half of the people that I know back in Orlando. Many people I have met here, I hope to keep in my life for a long time.

            Ever since I moved here I have been doing better in school, I have got myself an exceptional job, and I have made relationships with different kinds of people I would never have even thought to talk to. Even though rumors are a bad factor in this town, I know because I have fallen victim to them, people here really are all there when you need them. No one in this town will ever let you fall behind.

            I guess through all of this rant, I would say that my life truth is to always do things that will make you happy. If I had never decided to move here, I would still be stuck in Orlando doing the same things that were not helping me with my life.

Skinny Love

The song I have chosen this week is a very strong one sung by someone who is only sixteen. It is the song Skinny Love by Birdy. It is considered to be a part of the alternative music genre.

            In the beginning of the song, it seems as though she is talking about a person. Throughout the song she makes it more known that she is not talking about a person, but in fact, talking to love itself. The tone of the song seems to be annoyed. She is scolding “love” and is talking about all the things that she has told it to be. She wanted it to be patient, fine, balanced, and kind. It did not turn out to be like that. In the second chorus, she says that the love was wasted and in return, “who the hell” was she? She says that her love was wasted and only hope can save it and make it go back to what it once was.

            The life truth that I got out of this song is that not everything is what you want it to be. Love seems like it is this thing that is always perfect and it never has its problems, but that is just not true. This song does not have to be for a relationship between two strangers who fell in love; it can be for parents and kids, siblings, or two friends.

            This song touches my heart in many ways. One is because of my past relationship that I wanted to last forever and it did not. Another is because my dad has always worked with Department of Children and Families, which is a company that deals with child abuse. I always thought that a relationship between parents and a kid is always full of love and care but sadly, some are not. The child who is abused still has that hope that their parents will love them in the way that they want, but some do not end up like that. It is a very sad life truth but it is in everyday life and we just have to learn to accept it.

  Come on skinny love just last the year,
Pour a little salt you were never here,
My my my, my my my, my-my my-my...
Staring at the sink of blood and crushed veneer.
I tell my love to wreck it all,
Cut out all the ropes and let me fall,
My my my, my my my, my-my my-my...
Right in the moment this order's tall.

And I told you to be patient,
And I told you to be fine,
And I told you to be balanced,
And I told you to be kind,
And in the morning I'll be with you,
But it will be a different kind,
'Cause I'll be holding all the tickets,
And you'll be owning all the fines.
Come on skinny love, what happened here?
Suckle on the hope in light brassieres,

My my my, my my my, my-my my-my...
Sullen load is full, so slow on the split.
And I told you to be patient,
And I told you to be fine,
And I told you to be balanced,
And I told you to be kind,
And now all your love is wasted,
Then who the hell was I?
'Cause now I'm breaking at the bridges,
And at the end of all your lies.
Who will love you?
Who will fight?
And who will fall far behind?
Come on skinny love,
My my my, my my my, my-my my-my...
My my my, my my my, my-my my-my.

What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger

            I have decided to start over with my blogs. I have been doing them wrong by not adding a life truth to them. My new blogs are going to be about songs and the meaning behind them. I am not going to write only what the song is about, but also what I have learned from it. I will provide all of the lyrics to the song so that you can read them and take from them what you will.

            The song that I have chosen to do this week is What Doesn’t Kill You by Kelly Clarkson. I chose this song because it kind of applies to what I have had to deal with in the past.

            The song is about a girl getting out of a relationship where the guy in it made her feel like she was worthless, almost close to being nothing. She talks about how she bets that he thinks he is the only one laughing and that she is not happy anymore since he is gone. She comes back saying that she is perfectly happy being alone; that even though he has made her feel terrible at times, she has come back even stronger than she has in the past.

            Even though the song is focusing on a relationship, this life lesson can be applied to any situations where someone is trying to make another person feel low. The situation may hurt at times. Whatever is going on might make you feel like you are never going to get through it, but you will. Because you got through it, it will only make you stronger for whatever life throws at you.

Lyrics:

You know the bed feels warmer
Sleeping here alone
You know I dream in color
And do the things I want

You think you got the best of me
Think you've had the last laugh
Bet you think that everything good is gone
Think you left me broken down
Think that I'd come running back
Baby you don't know me, cause you're dead wrong

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
Stand a little taller
Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone
What doesn't kill you makes a fighter
Footsteps even lighter
Doesn't mean I'm over cause you're gone

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, stronger
Just me, myself and I
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
Stand a little taller
Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone

You heard that I was starting over with someone new
They told you I was moving on over you

You didn't think that I'd come back
I'd come back swinging
You try to break me, but you see

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
Stand a little taller
Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone
What doesn't kill you makes a fighter
Footsteps even lighter
Doesn't mean I'm over cause you're gone

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, stronger
Just me, myself and I
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
Stand a little taller
Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone

Thanks to you I got a new thing started
Thanks to you I'm not the broken-hearted
Thanks to you I'm finally thinking about me
You know in the end the day you left was just my beginning
In the end...

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
Stand a little taller
Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone
What doesn't kill you makes a fighter
Footsteps even lighter
Doesn't mean I'm over cause you're gone

[2x]
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, stronger
Just me, myself and I
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
Stand a little taller
Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone
(lyrics from azlyrics.com)