November 22, 2005
Sidenote:
Both this and the entry I just entered, I thought you might like to know, were written as I was a passenger on Interstate 75 outside of Valdosta, GA. A small dream of mine has been to be ANYwhere, bust out my laptop, and be on the interweb. Today, besides using my dad's laptop, that dream has been realized.
So how 'bout that? Pretty cool, huh?
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Little Goodbyes
This past Tuesday, I ended my Intramural Athletics Career. Sadly, our guys team showed up with six guys to play 7-on-7 football. We lost in double overtime. So, even though we lost, it was cool that we even took the game that far. The girls team, whose offense I coached, lost just a couple hours later. But the cool thing about it was that they played one of the two best teams in teh league even until the last 2 minutes of the game. How exciting! We had people watching our game from the corner of their eyes, on other fields, rooting for us to pull off the huge upset. So my offense executed to perfection, and that was that. My Intramural career was over. Just like (*snap*) that!
This entire semester has been full of nights just like Tuesday night was. Not the losses, so much... Just the times where I catch myself saying, "That's the last time that's going to happen!" Sure, it's sad and odd. But at the same time, it's exciting and nerve-racking.
So with my days numbered as a student at Murray State University, and as a resident of Hester College, this is my last hoorah, as they say. I currently have no clue what is next: I'll figure that out soon enough! I just felt like I should recognize the feelings that Goodbye's have brought me this semester. By acknowledging the fear and the small amount of sadness in each "Goodbye!" I have resorted to my pretty hefty bank of excitement that I have stored up for the last few years.
Every day the scenery of my life is changing. But I CHOOSE to welcome it. I am destined for greatness. Are you with me??
LET'S DO THIS THING!!
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November 08, 2005
Emotional Puberty
Just when you think your're done! Our voices are changed. We're as tall as we'll ever be. We're no longer going to grow out of our shoes before we wear them out. And we'll be shaving every day until our last...
We have done it! Our long, hard years of painful growth spurts and physical clumsiness are over (well not me all the time, but you know me...)!
Granted, we'll be physically changing on some level forever. Our faces will fill out, we'll get wrinkles, and our hair will either turn gray or fall out. But all things said, we've reached physical maturation.
But where does that leave us?
We're finally comfortable with where our bodies have left us off, and it hits us! For me, it was a few weeks into college my college career. I found myself on a picnic table behind my dorm challenging people's beliefs on abortion. This was the first time I had ever found myself defending my beliefs to people that I knew very little about. And now, five years later, I'm only deeper into my psyche. Being challenged in my beliefs daily. And you know what? It doesn't stop there!...
I feel like every day now my CORE is tested. My HEART is (let's see if i can find the word...) challenged. Everything from finding what is becoming my own faith to answering the questions the lie on the surface of my soul. The unanswered questions that seem to come to the surface every day.
Just like when we were teens, we're changing every moment. Although this time it's not our physical appearance that is changing. It is our presence of mind. Every day that passes, we are one day closer to where this "Emotional Puberty" will drop us off. This is where we are... This is what people our age do!
And when all is said and done, we will have become Emotionally Mature. Just like the growing pains of our teenage years left our bodies off at a certain height with a certain look that will slowly change in time, these emotional changes will leave us standing as a mature adult, ready to take on the world we will build for ourselves.
Once again, I'm growing towards a person that I am loving more and more every day (does that sound full of myself? I hope not!).
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