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"What gets us through?"

"How do we do it?"

"Isn't it supposed to be easier than this?"

These are just a few of the questions that I have found myself posing to.... Myself, in the last couple months. I've come to think of these times as "growing pains". (Insert: a funny Kirk Cameron reference that I could not think of here). Every one of us, at some point and time comes to a spot that's a gut check. You know, the times that are really rough, but we somehow come out on the other end changed, yet improved? That's right! Improved. That's where I get confused, too.

So that leads me to more questions:

How is it that the toughest times in our journey here truly mold us to be what we are? Wouldn't you think that the times we are happiest would have a lot more to do with what we become?

So as I've continued take each day for what it's worth, I'm beginning to find that the answers to these questions have very little to do with me. In fact, it's not about me at all.

I've begun to look around my life and take pleasure in some of the smallest things. A few examples?...

• I just had a brownie that someone gave me over the weekend that I had forgotten about. DELICIOUS!
• Today, when I got back from work, T.O. had dinner in my room "just 'cuz... you know."
• Steve, who in more ways than one inspired this post, took several hours out of his Saturday last weekend to share his knowledge with a colleague and me, that saved us weeks of CLUELESS labor.
• Oh, and I can't forget about how good it made me feel when Emily and Squirt each caught a pass EXACTLY as coached.

I'm slowly figuring out that it's these little things and the people that are responsible for them that "get us through". We go through each day, crossing paths with people. Some of them we know, most of them we don't know. But it's those people that we find in our lives every day, who share themselves with us, make us smile when we don't feel like it, and give us the opportunity to support them through their "Ruff" times right back!

So this is me, saying thank you to those of you who have made me who I am today, and more importantly, who I will be tomorrow. Without you guys, who knows where I'd be? But what I do know is this: It's family, friends, girlfriends, teammates, roommates, and those people you find yourself surrounded by on the hardest days that get us through. THAT'S how we do it. And it's EASIER because of them.

Thank you all... I like who I am, and who I am becoming, and I owe you the world for it!