Never Underestimate The Power Of Forgiveness

I was skimming through the TV guide this morning and came across a Hallmark movie called Crossroads: A Story of Forgiveness. While reading the information, I realized that I knew the family from back in elementary school. While I originally started watching the film because I was already familiar with the story, I kept watching because of the powerful message of forgiveness.

Like the movie, any one person are flawed and are capable of making mistakes. Some people make more dire mistakes than others. However, if we give that person a second chance to take their mistakes and turn it into a positive influence than that chance opportunity was worth taking.

Like my earlier post of Sweet Revenge, I talked about being bullied in elementary school and how I resented the girls who took part in it. I know from experience that I can not go back and change what had occurred, neither does resenting those girls help me create a better future for myself. However, what I can do is accept what happened, learn from the experience, and move on. Although I haven't had the opportunity to talk to them since the occasion, I am fairly certain that if they were to come up to me and apologize, I would forgive them. I know that what they did back then is in their past and may not be who they are today.

So the next time you are faced with the opportunity to resent someone or forgive them, I hope you choose to forgive. It will make the weight lift off your shoulders and just might make that person want to be a better person as well.

Here is a link to my story:

Second Chances

What A Difference A Year Makes!

I can not believe how far I've come! It's hard to believe that just last year, I was giving up my dream of becoming a teacher and about to take on a whole new career opportunity! Now, I'm half way through my externship in patient accounts and love the whole experience!

When I went through student teaching and could not finish, I could have broken down and follow into a deep whole. But I took it as another challenge and path that God wants me to take. I accepted God's challenge for me head on and now I am staring at a career path that will bring forth many different options for me in the near future. I can not wait to see what God has in store for me the next year! As my 25th birthday nears, I finally feel like my life is just beginning! I feel like my life in Washington may be closing its chapter, but now I am creating  a whole new chapter of my life!

I have embraced the idea to live each and every day to the fullest! Expect the unexpected and I will never be disappointed in the experiences that God chooses for me!

Adventures are yet to come!

Have you ever felt that you have been stuck in a rut and wondered what exciting opportunity would come next?

This is how I felt throughout most of my life. I had wanted to become a teacher since grade school and pretty much lost sight of anything else that I could possibly imagine doing aside from teaching. Now that teaching is no longer an option for me, I have embraced a life of adventure and living in the moment. I'm in my second quarter of school, in order to learn medical billing and coding and love every minute of it! I have always been proficient at computers and loved the medical field, the office part, not so much of the actual doctor and nurses' jobs! LOL Not only have I discovered a new talent and interest of mine, but I have also made new friends at Fred Meyers, where I am currently working. I feel that God has closed one door in my life, but has opened a new door that will lead to many possibilities in my life.

Throughout this realization, I have learned a lot about myself. I am not just this quiet, laid back girl that most people think I am. I am adventurous, loving, caring, God fearing, and want to enjoy life to the fullest each and every day. If you can't enjoy life, why bother living it it, right?

So...what's next for me?.... I am going to finish training courses on medical billing and coding, receive a full time job, and eventually move to North Carolina, which has been on the back of mind since college! I also want to travel the world, see most of Europe, Asia, South America, and beyond! I want to experience different cultures and broaden my perspective of the world! Eventually, I would like to settle down and have a family, but right now...I am just happy to be where I'm at in life and hope to never lose this amazing sense of peace and adventurous nature about me!

And in my previous posts, I have posted a link to my stories that I have written. Most of you may not realize this, but they are more like my journals, written as a diary about my life. Although most of the situations may not have happened to me personally, my thoughts and emotions are all over the words written. Want to try and guess which character I based myself on? I don't know if these stories will ever be published, but right now...I don't care! If no one reads my stories, it doesn't matter because they are my journals and my critique is the only opinion that matters! I'm actually thinking that my stories shouldn't be published in a book anyways, if I had to share my stories with the world, I would choose to use these stories as a screen play!

I have shared many of my aspirations with you for my own future! What is it that you hope to accomplish? Or have you done everything you want to achieve in life? Is this really true that you don't have one thing left to accomplish? In my experience, God always finds a way to give us new experiences as either an exciting accomplishment or a tough challenge to overcome. And it is how we deal with these experiences that will define who we are for the rest of our lives!

A Mistaken Romance

There are some relationships that we get into that may be alright for the time being, but later on, we discover that it was a mistake to be together. This doesn't just have to apply to intimate bf/gf relationships. This can also apply to friendships. I have made plenty of friends over my 23 years of life. I have made a few best friends, a lot of good friends, and a few friends that I no longer speak to and realize that maybe our relationship as friends probably should never had occured. With those few friends that I never speak to anymore, our relationship ended in the worst possible way. (E-mail me to know the whole story.) It's funny when you think about it. They might have been really nice, but the last memory of the person usually stick in our mind longer than the beginning of the friendship when it was very good. Why is that?

I think that even though we all may agree that these bad break-ups by friends, loved ones, etc. are mistakes, it never stops us from wanting to seek out new friends. I think the only thing you can do after a friendship ends is to learn what went wrong and know what not to do next time. You may not want to speak with the old friend for awhile, but when making new friends, you can try to avoid causing the same incident that occured in the previous friendship.

This was especially true in my next story. Follow this link: A Mistaken Romance. It is a story, how one woman was in a relationship with a guy in junior high and how that relationship spiraled out of control after ten years. Although she is still not with the guy anymore and has been happily married with someone else, the guy is still hung-up on her and wants to be with her. This is an example of how we can not change the past, but how we can still make the best possible future out of a current situation.

Sweet Revenge: Is It Really Worth It?

Have you ever felt like you needed to exact revenge on somebody that has said or done something to embarrass you? How many of you can actually say that revenge actually stopped the person from going after you again? People can be cruel sometimes. I haven't told many people about this, but when I was in 4th grade, I was a victim of emotional and physical abuse. There was only one instance where my "so-called" friends kicked me and resorted to physical abuse. As much as the physical abuse hurt me, the emotional abuse hurt way much more.

In 3rd grade, I was this happy-go-lucky 9 year old girl. But the very next year, every girl in the class had turned on me and started picking on me because they saw me as the weakest link. They learned that they could call me names or force me to do what they wanted, making me think that I would get something that I wanted in return. But in the end, they never gave me anything that they had promised me. Since I was shy and introverted young girl back then, I just stood back and let them push me around and put me down. I came home almost every single day of school, crying and wishing that the bullying would end. My parents would see if cry and comfort me and try to talk me through the situation. They would try to tell me how to handle the situation, but how was I supposed to take advice from my parents when they hadn't gone through anything like I had? Every time I was bullied at school, my parents would let the teacher know and she would have these separate group talks. But it just made everything worse. I felt like everytime we had to have group talks during our recesses, the teacher was just singling me out that I was the one that reported the problem. The girls all knew that I was the only one they picked on and they came after me even harder. Now, I just wished that I had the strength to stand up for myself, or even to just decide to not hang out with them.

I have to live with my experiences for the rest of my life. I resented what happened to me and hated the girls that bullied me for years to come. But that's in the past now. I may always hate what they did, but I can't let them run my life. I am stronger now because of that experience and I will not let anyone mess with my head again. The trick is to stand up for yourself and not let what the person says bother you.

The following link is a story that I wrote. It is a sequel to A Family's Support. After what happened in the previous story, the characters thought that they had to take revenge, instead of letting them receive their own consequences that are awaiting them later on. Sweet Revenge

A Family's Support

There have been times in my life where I thought I was alone and I longed for people to support me and give me words of encouragement. Has anyone else ever felt the same? As I felt like this, my family was around men giving me the love and support that I needed. I realized how lucky I am to have a family that loves and cares for me so much and would do anything for me. It doesn't matter what I did wrong because they will always support me and figure out a way to help me through any situation.

As I was writing my next story, this was exactly what I thought about. I remembered all of the times that my family supported me and wanted to capture that support in a story. Here is the link: A Family's Support. My stories are basically a fictional diary of my life. I make up characters that express who I am. Try to take a guess at what character you think is me?

Picture Perfect Family

What does a perfect family look like? Can we simply define what a perfect family should look like for every person on Earth? I have always thought of the perfect family to be a loving and supporting family, who always had each other's back. No matter what you were going through, your family would always be there for you. When you are having a hard time, your family would an ear to listen and a shoulder to lean on. And when you are going through an exciting experience, your family is there to enjoy the experience with you.

This idea of the perfect family is what I have experienced personally. I have always been blessed to have a family that has supported me through thick and thin. We have had our ups and downs, but we have always supported each other.

Here is a story that I have written about a Picture Perfect Family.