Life is yours to live...just the way you want to live it.

This is a giant block of whatever is most difficult for you to carry & trust me on this, you'll carry it more times than you can count until you decide that's exactly what you want to do most & then it won't weigh a thing anymore. ~Brian Andreas, Weight Training

As I've journeyed through life, I've made some tough decisions. Mostly decisions about who I wanted to be, what was important to me, and when and where I would take a stand for those things. It's never easy. I think it was more so for me because I had a lot of great supports in my life. People who only wanted me to be happy and trusted I knew exactly how to get to that point...whether immediately or in the long run. Really my family is the best. They supported me through being a philosophy major...where was that going to get me I got asked by strangers all the time. And my sister took two whole years off before even considering going to college. "Oh she'll never go" was what many people probably thought. And what if she never did? Would that make her less than? And through life experience she learned what she wanted to do rather than force the decision in 2 short years of college before she would have had to declare a major. I think we are both happier people now for following our hearts! My husband is a prime example of someone who just never felt like college material. He had 2 go's at it, but in the long run he wanted to work with his hands. He's a carpenter now and gets paid the same as me...and I have the student loan bill! Imagine that.

Really the same goes for any stance in life. College, religion, raising your kids, hell, birthing your kids, eating your food...Anything. You'll always get the eyebrow raise, the sly looks, the "concerned" questioning, the "but don't you think you should...."!

It makes me sad when I know there are people out there who crumble under the pressure of their "support" systems. "Supports" who don't truly hear what these precious individuals need to become complete in their very own way. Everyone has their own path and they have the right to follow that path as long as it does not injure another. But it can be so hard to follow when everyone else wants you to go down the "right" path. I wish there were no "right" mandated by most of society. It just breeds insecurity and hostility in those who try to follow it but never feel quite right about it.

Follow your dreams, live your life for yourself because you'll never be able to live for someone else until you do, let others love you for exactly who you are and leave the rest to miss out on the best person they may never know!