Things I Know

Wowsers is all I'll say. Been one heck of an interesting start to 2011 & I can't exactly say all that I'm feeling at this moment, except that it's a helluva lot of things all at once.

But, there are some things that keep going through my mind:

1. Just because you figure out what you want and don't want in your life, it doesn't make it easy to achieve.
2. Many people come and go in our lives, but there are some who will always be a piece of you.
3. Sometimes making the right decision for ourselves hurts like holy hell.
4. You can fall in love with someone and always love someone, but that doesn't mean they will love you back in the same way nor be in your world.
5. When you find what home means to you, you will return to it over and over. And it may change, but it will never leave you.
6. It is critically important to figure out what home means to you.
7. It is critically important to love yourself.
8. Sometimes you will physically heal from an accident rather quickly, but the mental and emotional impacts are the much more difficult parts to get through.
9. It is not a feeling I would wish on anyone to go to bed at night feeling like you may very well not wake up the next morning..
10. Some of the most hurtful and painful life experiences can shake you to your core, but can also make you learn things about yourself you would never have realized otherwise.
11. Even people who seem to be so together and have everything figured out have their own insecurities and things they struggle with.
12. It is ok to give someone a second chance, but when you're working on the 4th, 5th, 6th time, you need to realize it is what it is and walk away no matter how much it kills you at the moment.
13. Sometimes you meet someone who almost instantly seems to know you and vice versa.
14. It is ok to be a trusting person and always look for the positive in people, but listen carefully to your gut feel as it is 99% of the time spot on.
15. When things feel overwhelming and you don't see how you're ever going to feel happy again, check in and not out, cry or be pissed, but trust in your strength and know you will be ok.
16. Know that it's ok to make mistakes. The only failure is in not trying & not learning.