- It always stuns me to find how easily love can slip to indifference. It never fails to amaze how a person can go from the top to the bottom in importance. How easily friendships can be lost. How effortless it can be to forget firing compassion and how painless it can be to choose to disregard. Others attempt to salvage, but their efforts go unnoticed and words go unremembered. Before you know it, they're just another person at the party you avoid eye contact with.
- Let's all just stop discriminating and paying attention to the old grudges and cliques of highschool and enjoy the very last year we have together.
- This year...Foster friendships of a lifetime. Dream dreams too exciting for reality. Make memories that can only bring laughter
- Sometimes there aren't enough words in the dictionary to describe a feeling.The aching, but not a bad aching...like a want, but feels like a need. The chills and the feeling as though I can't suck in air fast enough. The constant feeling as though as close as I am, I can never get close enough. I'm constantly searching for a new, improved way to let you know you're more to me than what I know how to say.
- You are fine. Life is bigger than exams. Stop stressing, studying, writing papers, analyzing graphs, making notecards, and memorizing pointless facts you'll just forget in a week. Lay down, watch a movie, tell your mom you love her, and go on a run. You know you will get it done eventually and it will be perfect. God would never give you anything you can't handle and at this point, you can handle it.
- Never forget the reason you are where you are. Don't forget past mistakes and pains, however painful it may be to recall. Every broken road, every triumph, and every hardship brought you exactly where you are at this very moment. You may say, "Why couldn't this have happened months ago?", but you weren't ready. You had to experience the bad so you can truly appreciate the good. Embrace difficulties. If I could have spared you disappointment and sadness, I wouldn't. I wouldn't because every situation makes you stronger. If you never had any pain, the moment you came across the least bit of it, you wouldn't know how to handle it. Don't be bitter, don't complain, and don't expect too much. Laugh when friends make you happy, cry when school makes you sad, and scream when life frustrates you. Embrace every moment, even the difficult ones. Love,Me
Yesterday I went on Cor Jesu's Vivare "young alumni" retreat. My friend from high school Katie posted it on my wall a few weeks ago and tagged a couple other CJ sisters to the post and it struck my interest. I haven't done a single thing with CJ since I graduated and somewhere between moving to Boston and joining the triathlon team my Catholic past was put on the backburner. I figured I had nothing to lose except a Saturday and at the very least I'd get to hang out with my friends so I signed up and sent in my $25 without much thought. I've never been the most devout Catholic. Most times in church I'm scanning the crowd for familiar faces, zoning out, and making Target lists- and that's if I go at all. Sunday is usually run-day...or ski day. Or sleep in day. Or study day. Or vacuum day. Whatever day it is...it's rarely church day. Despite being raised by two Catholic parents, going to a Catholic grade school and a Catholic high school, going o...
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