Life's Group Meeting

Life has many changes. I guess that is kind of the point of life, to change and overcome obstacles. But what do you do when there are too many changes for you to keep up with? Friends, boys, family, sports, and school shouldn't all change at the same time. Each little part of life should have a "life group meeting" with each other and decide which one is going to change at each time. That would make my life so much simpler.

I think I could have handled my friends completely changing their personalities and the way they live and then having my boyfriend of two years break up with me just because he decided he wants to live a single life forever. I could get through those things individually, but when they happen within the same few days, it makes life that much harder. But life is supossed to be hard I guess. I just wish it would even out the hard along the way.

Not to mention all at the same time this is happening to me, I decided to quit pitching for softball. I just didn't love it like I did a few years ago and it was taking up to much time and I wasn't getting out of it what I was putting in. When I made that decision I let a lot of people down and they were extremely dissapointed with me. I hate to let people down but I knew that I had to do what made me happy and not just my parents or my teammates. I think that telling our team's other pitcher was the hardest thing I had to do. Even worse than telling my mom and dad about my decision. She was so upset because she had to take on the whole season by herself, but hopefully some of the younger teammates will step up for me. I hope so because if not I have a feeling that if we have a losing streak it will be blamed on me.

The last thing that couldn't have come at a worse time was school. Yes I know I'm a junior now, finally an upperclassmen. But when all of this huge changes happening just days before school started, coming back to class was the farthest thing from my mind. I signed up for some difficult classes, hoping to help with college but the first few days were a blur. My mind was on that dumb boy I had wasted the first half of high school on, where my old best friend had gone, and what all of my team thought about me. Let's just say all those notes that got taken those first few days were a little fuzzy to me.

I didn't expect to have to go through all these things on my own all at once, but I guess that is what I get for wanting to be more independent. When you ask for something, be very careful of how you word your desires because you might get something thrown out of left field that you never even imagined would happen.

Like father, Like daughter

I am most like my father because we have the same types of personality and I look kind of like him. We both love sports and that pretty much takes up all of our free time. Both of us are very competitive and everything is a win or lose situation. Even who can get their food first at dinner time and eat the quickest is a race to us. We are pretty laid back about most things but we both like to stay busy all the time. I get extremely bored just sitting at home watching t.v. and my dad is the exactly the same way. Im not sure if this is a good thing, but I do get my stubborness from him too. Some people have said that my dad and I could argue with a brick wall and win. I think that is why we get along so well, because we are almost exactly alike and know what makes each other tick. We know how we like to talk about things and do certain things around the house. That is why I am more like my dad than any other family member.