By: Sophia
Hello friends. It has been way too long I know. I don’t know about you guy’s but this past couple months have been pretty tough.
So the other night I was hanging out with my best friend, we were both having a really bad week and needed some time to vent. We both cried, both got our frustrations out about what has been going on, the frustration between school, winter, loneliness and depression. During this conversation she said something that really hit me hard. “ Have you ever thought about how life kinda plays out?” She then went on further into her conversation about if she didn’t meet certain people she wouldn’t of met me, her best friend, and if she never met me she wouldn’t know what to do. It really got me thinking.
Have you ever thought about how life plays out? Well after she went on her rant about how if some bad things didn’t happen she wouldn’t be where she is, it got me thinking. If my parents would have never split, I would not be where I am now, emotionally or in life. I would for one, not be as strong as I am now. I would have not learned to love the small things, to appreciate the things you already have in life. I also would have never met my new “family”. See, my parents got a divorce; it wasn’t easy, I felt like I was losing my family. But it is actually the complete opposite of that. I have a bigger family now. I have great friends who mean the world to me, who I would have never EVER met if these bad things never happened. I would have never even known who they were. Which is completely mind boggling for me, because they are honestly apart of my family now.
After thinking about all this and talking to my best friend about it, I felt refreshed. It made me realize something that left me feeling so much better and a new way to look on the bad things that happen in life. This is what I realized, without the bad things, you would not be where you are now, you wouldn’t be the person you are now without the things that cause you pain, or struggle. At least for me, I know that without all these absolutely crazy things that happened this year. I would not have my amazing friends, I would have never been this strong, I would never have started writing and I wouldn’t be able to help my friends as well as I can now when they are struggling. So I have a challenge for you, I dare you to look back, look back on the times that you thought everything was falling apart and then look at your life this very second and see all the new positive things that are in your life.
