Year Ending (on a personal note)

Three hundrend and sixty five days filled with laughter, tears, happiness, sadness, joy, pain, and everything else in between. The challenges life set before me this year turned out to be more of a life changing journey. Although the past years have treated me better, I saw myself stuck in the same old routine over and over again. To look back at it optimistically, I can say I was "freed" from everything holding me back and now I can curiously discover what lies ahead of me. I cannot help but always remember what this year has brought me. It will leave a lasting impression on my life. You can say it's like a scar embedded on my heart, it takes times to heal and close up the pain but it will always leave a mark and remind you of what it brought in your life. I decided a while back that in order to protect myself and my "scar" from being reopened, my wall is up for everyone to see. This isn't me being scared, or me being in denial. This is my oppurtunity to take a journey with God and ask him to help me seek the strength I once had that enabled me to give my love unconditionally to those that deserve it. I saw two paths in front of me; one path lead to agony, regret, and relapse of all the pain I've gone through. The other path lead to curiousity, contentment, and excitment in what life has to offer. There were plenty of oppurtunities to revert back to being depressed and hopeful, but I'm glad I surpassed those temptations and charged at what was ahead of me, seldom looking back. Although I am still in transition from all of this, I can only pray that 2010 will bring me peace at mind. Bon voyage 2009, as much as you brought me closer to my family, loving GRV more than ever, understanding the true meaning of friendship, my graduation, my first salary career job, and my first real heartbreak..... it's time for you to join "Memory Lane". I can finally look back and say light-heartedly that "They're just memories..."