I am nobody. Who are you? Are you nobody too?

One of the things I believe almost everyone struggles with in High School (Or maybe its just me and I'm a freak) is worrying about what other people think about you. If you don't, lucky duck, I wish I was you. The truth that I've been discovering is, at this point in our lives, (As i have been told numerous times by many different adults) we are all trying to figure out who we are. Adolescence is a time of extremes. There are days when I head out of the house completely confident in myself; ready to 'grab life by the horns' ;) I feel like I don't need the exceptance of people I barely know.

...And then there are those days. I might leave the house feeling fine, but the minute I step in the front doors of that jungle we call High School, All of my confidence evaporates. Gone. Dissapeared. No more. And I have to admit I feel vulnerable. Because the fact of the matter is, I am a teenage girl. I feel insecure sometimes. I get lonely. I feel like no one cares. I don't like the way I look. But its almost never true. I have amazing friends who I know really care about me. A family that loves me. And so much more. So when those days hit and I feel like a pile of crap, I just have to trust that its going to be okay. I have people I can rely on. I have people that i can talk to about everything. And most of all, I've got God. And I know for a FACT that he will never let me down.
One of the things I do when I get stressed is go walking. In the woods. Up and down the dirt road I live on. I look around me at the beauty of nature and everything my amazing God has created. The hugeness (pardon my grammar) of it all. All of the life thats out there besides me. And it makes me realize that my little issues and roadblocks aren't nearly as bad as I blow them up to be. I have it pretty good. Life goes on. Robert Frost put it this way;

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."

So sometimes, I just have to get over myself. Realize that life is really awesome. And you've gotta live it the best you can cause you've only got one shot.

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
-Albert Einstein