great friends.
great family.
soccer.
smiles.
cute texts.
new roomie.
being independent.
food in the fridge.
water.
working hard.
good marks.
life!

more to come.

"One of the most critical skills a person can master is the ability to roll with the punches. It is not always easy to maintain your perspective when it feels like life is punching you in the mouth, but it is necessary.

I have noticed that stress paralyzes some people. They are freeze with indecision and are afraid to move for fear of what could ( Read more... )

Did you lose yourself out there somewhere? 
Did you get to be a star
Don't it make you sad to know that life is more than who we are. 
You grew up way too fast, now there's nothing to believe.

 Too often we are scared. Scared of what we might not be able to do. Scared of what people might think if we tried. We let our fears stand in the way of our hopes. We say no when we want to say yes. We sit quietly when we want to scream. And we shout with the others, when we should keep our mouths shut. Why? After all,we do only go around once. ( Read more... )

It's not because the coach says you have to, or because your teammates expect you to. It's because you have to do it. You have to get better. It's not a choice, you commited to this years ago. You stepped on that field and decided this was it. This was where all your nights and weekends were going. This is where you would be when your friends were ( Read more... )

The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ( Read more... )

Funny how just one year of university can completely change your perspective on things. Everything really.

young people need to stop dying.

The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways,but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts ( Read more... )

 this summer is going to take forever at this rate. I seriously miss everyone from x so much. I don't care what people say - home isn't always the same. people arent here, people have changed, stuff is just different. I've realized who my actual friends are and realized how sick I am of going out and getting loaded with people you settle to be ( Read more... )