Lessons and Learning

I was chatting about life with my dear mom today and she taught me an important lesson about the way the world works. Do what you want, good things follow. Seriously? I can actually choose to be who I want to be and do what I want to do and good things happen? What an idea. I know most of you probably established this train of thought on the day of birth (why some of us miss the boat is unclear to me), but some of us are a little slower in our development. Fortunately for me, 21 is still a ripe young age right?

Now, the real challenge. Deciding what you actually want. What do I want? Wow. What a question. I've spent most of my life riding on the coat tails of my best friends who decided what we did and I loved every minute of it. Now that they're off and married starting their own wonderful lives I get to ask the question to myself. Interesting. Well, since I'll be serving a mission with some time to kill until the call comes and I'm on my way, I'm going to make a list of what I would like to do in the meantime.

1) Blog
2) Landscape my parent's yard
3) Read 1776
4) Volunteer coach either volleyball or XC @ Maple Mountain High School
5) Write my grandmother's history from her perspective (luckily she lives less than 2 miles away).

I'd like to thank Megan Welton for the facebook post that inspired this new desire for goal setting. I've never been an overly passionate person with a good sense of my own likes and dislikes. Fortunately for me, there are those who lead their lives in such a way that I can follow their example until I reach greater heights myself. Megan's post is as follows

"People say that you shouldn't get your hopes up. I say tosh to that. All of my hopes are so far up that it will be nothing short of a spectacular let down if things don't work out, but I've survived spectacular let downs in the past, with the help of my friends Ben and Jerry. I'm just the type of girl who goes all in, no matter what. It's a better way to live, if you ask me. Try it some time."

I've never really tried it. I guess now is a great time to start.