Life is good....

Life changes... You get it all lined up just the way you like it and then something beyond your control comes along and bumps you off center... How nice it would be if you could get everything just the way you want it and say, 'Okay, now, stay.' But nothing stays the same... You grow up, make friends, lots friends, go to college, lose track of people, meet new ones, and sometimes you ask yourself why...

But all I can tell you is the every single experience you go through like this changed you in some way... Every new person who comes into your life changes you... Every moral dilemma or emotional experience you come up against changes you... It's your job you decide how. That's how character is developed...

You spend so much time wondering who you are, don't you think? You flounder about, searching for your identity, when most of the time it is as plain as the nose on your face... You struggle with questions of purpose and need, and forget that the answers are found mostly inside yourselves...

Sometimes people can't believe in themselves until someone else believes in them first... It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance, it is the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance, it is the one who won't be taken who cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live...

We all think we're going to be great... And we feel a little bit robbed when our expectations aren't met... But sometimes, our expectations sell us short... Sometimes the expected simply pales in comparison to the unexpected... You gotta wonder why we cling to our expectations because the expected is just what keeps us steady, standing, still... The expected's just the beginning... The unexpected is what changes our lives...