| My parents keep asking me how school was. It's like a drive-by shooting, you don't care how it was, you're just happy you got out of it alive. |
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| "No words can really describe a good bye forever hug, but when you feel it, you know that's what it is..." |
| You always knew how to make me smile, even if you had to teach me. |
| High School Memories |
| Xavier High School: 1992-1996 |
| Promise me...That's all I want. Just a promise that you will never forget me. Tell me I changed you somehow. Let me know that I had an impact on your life. Promise me that you will always remember me. - Now and Then |
| Amber, Me, and Nandi at State in 1995 |
| Amy, Nandi, and Me at State in 1994 (yes we are sitting on a T.V. and it's best not to ask why) |
| Kathy, Me, Jessie, Natalie, and Nandi Graduation Night May 21, 1996 |
| Beth and I at my Confirmation - Oct. 1995 |
| Me and Nandi Graduation Night 1996 |
| "Just because something won't last forever doesn't mean it won't last for a lifetime." ~Casper |
| "Everything changes eventually. That's just the way life is, you have no control over it. Suddenly people you think are always going to be there, they disappear. People die, and they move away and they grow up. Everything changes eventually." ~Dawson's Creek |
| Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you. - William Arthur |
| A Reason, A Season, or a Lifetime People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. When you figure out which it is, you know exactly what to do. When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed outwardly or inwardly. They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support, to aid you physically, emotionally, or spiritually. They may seem like a godsend, and they are. They are there for the reason you need them to be. Then, without any wrong doing on your part or at an inconvenient time, this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end. Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away. Sometimes they act up or out and force you to take a stand. What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled; their work is done. The prayer you sent up has been answered and it is now time to move on. When people come into your life for a SEASON, it is because your turn has come to share, grow, or learn. They may bring you an experience of peace or make you laugh. They may teach you something you have never done. They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy. Believe it! It is real! But, only for a season. LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons; those things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation. Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person/people (anyway); and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life. It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant. Thank you for being a part of my life... |
| "As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was going to happen." - Pooh |
| "You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience by which you really stop and look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself: 'I lived through this horror, I can take the next thing that comes along' " ~Eleanor Roosevelt |
| Just because something ends, it doesn't mean it never should have been. |
| Dreams may be shattered and hearts may be broken, but memories last forever. |
| When life gives you lemons screw the lemonade, just break out the tequila and shots. |
| Moving on is simple. It's what we leave behind that's hard. |
| "We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere." -Tim McGraw |
| In your life you meet people. Some you never think about again. Some you wonder what happened to them. There are some that you wonder if they ever think about you. And then there are some you wish you never had to think about again; but you do. �Wonder Years |
| Sometimes we need to be hurt in order to grow. We must fail in order to know. We must lose in order to gain. Some lessons are learned best through pain. |
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| Just when you think you figure everything out...things change...people change...and you can't go back to the way things use to be, no matter how hard you try... |
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| Sometimes, I do wish that I could go back and fix everything that went wrong. Because the truth is, I do miss everything that we all had. I just want to tell you that wherever I go, I take you all with me. I can't forget and there are some days when I truly do miss, well, having a friend that knows me and doesn't judge me for who I am. But, I wouldn't change it even if I could. Remember that the road He chose for me was not the one He chose for you. Yet, I sure wish that He'd make all of our paths cross again. |
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| I remember back to one of our senior religion classes where we were asked to write where we thought we would be in five, ten, and twenty years. I never bought into making predictions since I knew that life happens when you are making plans and nothing is set in stone. While I was forced (yes, forced against my will) to do the assignment, I half-heartedly wrote something down and not believing a word of it. I don't set goals, I don't believe in them. I believe in dreaming big, dreaming often, and then going out and accomplishing what I dream of doing. I don't look before I leap and I believe that every day is a new adventure worth living to the fullest. Ten years ago, I did not know how my life would turn out or where I would be today, and I'm glad I didn't. I don't think that I could have written a scripted answer as to where my life was headed. I knew I was going to college and I was going to major in international business. I never waivered, and unlike many, I never changed my major. After studying in Paris at universities I had only heard about in movies and on T.V., I graduated and headed off to get my M.B.A. After another stint in Europe, I got my MBA, and pondered what I was going to do next with my life. Some people plan their whole lives, I woke up one morning and said I'm going to law school (well, after wanting to be a lawyer since I was 6). Getting my MBA gave me the belief in myself to finally get a law degree, and I leaped and went to law school. After studying in Paris and Toronto, and making the Dean's List, I am graduating on May 20, 2006 - almost 10 years to the day of my high school graduation. . The moral of the story, we never know where we are going to end up, but that's the adventure. Life, happiness - it is not a destination, but a journey. And I'm enjoying the ride. |