Keeping your standards in the world is...

     In this day and age it is very hard to keep our standards. Is it worth it?  This is a question that I have asked myself many times. A lot of the time its the small things that are the hardest.

     One of the (small) things that I have problems with is Modesty. When I go swimming I wear a rash guard. Many people nowadays have a snarky rude comment or two to share about it. It's really makes life hard for me. Not many understand why I wear it, and even fewer that understand the why agree or support me in my choice. Now I'd like to thank the people who do support me in my choice.

     Another standard of mine that I struggle to keep is not drinking coffee, especially since I work at a coffee shop. The boss of the boss of my boss has been at my store every day that I have worked. He tries to get me to taste the difference of Iced coffee and Hot coffee, or hand mixed coffee with flavoring and swirled coffee with flavoring. No matter how many times I tell him that I don't drink coffee, He tries again. It's getting a little annoying.

     So tell me Whats one of your standards that you have a problem with?

Life evaluation...

     Today I went to watch a performance of a choir that I used to be part of. It was amazingly beautiful. I spent twenty minutes greeting everyone in sight! Many of my beloved young friends embraced me exclaiming, "I haven't seen you in forever", and "where have you been!" Some claimed to "hate" me for never coming to see them. One kind women told me that she missed seeing me on the stage.

     It made me think about how none of us truly realize how much of a difference we all make everyday!!!

     Try thinking about how you matter to this world, now times that by a Bazillion!!!!!! You are now within Eighty-Thousand of the real amount.

     So what are you going to do now? I know what I'm going to do. I am going to work harder to live life, and to enjoy life! I will share my smile with everyone. I will spend more time with my friends. I will now use my time and money wiser then ever before!

     So now I ask you are you going to do anything new, different, or better? If so what? Feel free to share below!!!  Thank you for reading all of my post!

Hard decisions...

Life is full of hard decisions. That is a fact that we all need to face!

     At this moment I am making many hard decisions, some may seem silly, but they are terrifyingly hard for me!!!  I got a job, I got this job without an interview or an application. The problem is that after 5 weeks I still haven't heard back from them.  So I have to decide do I take the job? Or is there a better job out there?   I dislike this question for 3 reasons. Reason 1, It takes a lot of time to find a job! I thought that I had a job (and it only took a month and a half) but now I might have to look for a different one! :(   Reason 2, I don't like disappointing people.    Reason 3, It's hard.

     My BEST friend invited me to see his play, but I already had plans to do something else (something that I have already put money towards)!    This wouldn't be so hard except that I already told him that he is required to come to my play at the end of the month.    WHY?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

     Another decision that I am making is whether I should start a Youtube channel or not.   Its outside of my comfort zone. To share my life over a blog is one thing, but to share my face and voice over a video is a completely different thing that scares me!!!!!!

I hope that all of you are having better luck with life then I am.

Today I learned an important lesson...

         So I was feeling really useless and down on myself! :( Which is a very weird feeling for me. I posted awhile ago about my decision to get a new job, well that didn't work out. I worked at the new job for about 3 weeks. I loved it! I was getting so many hours, I loved the people, and I learned how to do everything that my age didn't restrict! It was AMAZING!

         After 2 1/2 weeks Corporate decided to transfer my older sister to my store. Fun times I get to work with one of my favorite sisters, right? Wrong, it is against company policy for me to work under a family member. So they tried (really hard) to transfer me to another store, (because they didn't want to lose such a good employee.) The closest store was a 30 minute drive from my house! So I got mad, and I gave the good old "Give me this store, or give me termination!" speech. It didn't work. so now I am unemployed... Again.

         So it was the obvious thing to think, that maybe I was the problem. Maybe I shouldn't get a job. Which you should all know is an incorrect thought process. So I was feeling down, then I went a visited a very good friend. She was telling me about how she quit violin because it wasn't fun for her anymore. I convinced her to try it after 3 years of not even touching it, and see if she liked it anymore. She did, and she still doesn't like it. But that made me think, why did I ever stop playing the piano? It made me happy, I just didn't like the lack of progress that I was making. I figured that I should have picked it up super fast! Be playing Bach in 2 weeks time! But it didn't go that way. I learned at the same pace as everyone else. So I stopped. I was recently in a Choir for this ig celebration, that they were broadcasting around the world! I learned that I still love all things music. So what was stopping me.

         I tried to play the piano yesterday, I loved it, and I was still good at it! So now I want to play the piano as often as possible!

         This was an interesting week for me. I learned important lessons,

Beauty is whatever gives joy.  ~Edna St. Vincent Millay. 

Music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music. ~Billy Joel

Now in parting I give you this, to ponder,

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. ~Leopold Stokowski 

Life is hard...

Come on now, we all know it. Not even I can deny it.

     I had a job at a restaurant, but I had problems there. So I had to Quit. I loved working there, I loved the people there, and I loved the benefits!!!! All of that made it really hard to Quit. So I had to decide if the job was benefiting me enough to stay, with all the problems and complications that came with it.

     The day that I made My decision, I discovered that "Life is hard." 
My reasons behind that are, 

#1, Sometimes you have to make the hard decisions. 
#2, People come and go.
#3, Pain is always a part of Life.

     Well let me ask, why do people continue to go through with life if this is the case? Well let`s answer that question by going more in depth!

     Sometimes we have to make the hard decisions, so that we can better live our lives. When we face a hard problem, We progress. Jairam Ramesh a member of The Indian National Congress  said  "There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and do it. Governance is about taking tough, even unpopular, decisions."

     People come and go, but friendships are forever! As a wise man named Kahlil Gibran once said, 

“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.” And so we see if they are our friends, then we have nothing to fear when they leave.

     Pain is a part of life, but so is Love, Happiness, and (the best of all) Friends! A great Inspiration to me, Kelly Clarkson has this to say, "My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear and they are there for me in the good and bad times. Without them I have no idea where I would be and I know that their love for me is what's keeping my head above the water."

     So don't worry if you have to make the hard decisions, or if People come and go, and definitely don't worry about Pain being part of life.

     To finish My story, I ended up quitting that job. I found a job that works better for me! A job that I am happier at. I love life! It is the best thing that ever happened to me. Earlier we asked a question, why do people continue to go through life if that is the case? Let me now answer in more simple terms, We live because we have to, because we enjoy many moments of it. We live because we crave to know the unknown! So keep living! Learn what you don't know! Do what you want to do, no matter what!!!!!     

It is hard to say goodbye...

     Today I go to say Goodbye to a very good friend of mine! :(  2 weeks ago I said goodbye my second Dromio!(Or was he my twin Brothers (who was actually my Sister) Dromio?)  :( 4 weeks ago I said goodbye to a best friend. :'(  They are all going on a "Humanitarian" Project for their Church. 2 will be gone for 2 YEARS!!!!!!!!! The other will only be gone for 1.5 years.

     I am happy for them,  to be able to serve for something that they believe in!!!! I will miss them! Luckily the 2 who are gone for longer have Younger Brothers to replace them with. (I think that I like the little Brothers better. Shh don't tell.)  I will miss them terrible! But I still have many Friends and My BESTEST OF FRIENDS!!! So I think that I'll manage. It will be hard though. I will need lots of support and Friend time ;) but I will manage. I will make it through!

     I can still send them Emails and Letters (Which by the way sounds like a preposterous Idea to me! "Oh look I got an 'H' this week!!!!" LAME!!!!) (My Momm just told me that a letter is a message sent in an Envelope. Why in the Beautiful world would they call it a "Letter" it seems very Silly to me! But whatever.) so it isn't like I can`t talk to them.

     Now I am off to My good friend Costards Farewell!!! Farewell!!!  Bon Voyage!! (Which means safe travels in French so I will be using it more often!) Until next time my Dear Friends!

Quotes to live by.

   WORK FOR A CAUSE NOT FOR APPLAUSE. LIVE LIFE TO EXPRESS, NOT TO IMPRESS. DON'T STRIVE TO MAKE YOUR PRESENCE NOTICED, JUST MAKE YOUR ABSENCE FELT. 

~UNKNOWN

    TO REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE, YOU NEED TO FORGET WHO THEY TOLD YOU TO BE.

~UNKNOWN

    BE A VOICE NOT AN ECHO

~UNKNOWN

    BE STRONG. YOU NEVER KNOW WHO YOU`RE INSPIRING.   

~UNKNOWN

    DON`T PROMISE WHEN YOU`RE HAPPY. DO NOT REPLY WHEN YOUR ANGRY. DO NOT DECIDE WHEN YOU`RE SAD.    

~UNKNOWN

    FORGIVE OTHERS NOT BECAUSE THEY DESERVE FORGIVENESS, BUT BECAUSE YOU DESERVE PEACE

~UNKNOWN

    BELIEVE IN THE SUN, EVEN WHEN ITS NOT SHINING. 

    BELIEVE IN LOVE, EVEN WHEN ALONE. 

    BELIEVE IN GOD, EVEN WHEN HE IS SILENT.

~UNKNOWN

    WHEN SOMETHING BAD HAPPENS YOU HAVE THREE CHOICES. YOU CAN EITHER LET IT DEFINE YOU, LET IT DESTROY YOU, OR YOU CAN LET IT STRENGTHEN YOU.

~UNKNOWN

    BE SO GOOD THEY CAN`T IGNORE YOU

~STEVE MARTIN

     I`VE SEEN BETTER DAYS, BUT I`VE ALSO SEEN WORSE.

     I DONT HAVE EVERYTHING THAT I WANT, BUT I DO HAVE ALL I NEED.

     I WOKE UP WITH SOME ACHES AND PAINS, BUT I WOKE UP. 

    MY LIFE MAY NOT BE PERFECT BUT I AM BLESSED.

~UNKNOWN

    DON`T FEEL BAD IF PEOPLE REMEMBER YOU ONLY WHEN THEY NEED YOU.

     FEEL PRIVILEGED THAT YOU ARE A CANDLE THAT COMES TO THEIR MIND WHEN THERE IS DARKNESS.

~UNKNOWN

    REMEMBER THAT YOU WERE GIVEN THIS LIFE BECAUSE YOU'RE STRONG ENOUGH TO LIVE IT. 

~UNKNOWN

    YOU MAY THINK THE GRASS IS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE, BUT IF YOU TAKE THE TIME TO WATER YOUR OWN GRASS IT WOULD BE JUST AS GREEN.

~UNKNOWN

    FILL YOUR BUCKET OF SELF-ESTEEM SO HIGH THAT THE REST OF THE WORLD CAN`T POKE ENOUGH HOLES TO DRAIN IT DRY...

~ALVIN PRICE

    WHY FIT IN WHEN YOU WERE BORN TO STAND OUT?

~DR. SUESS

    SOMETIMES WHEN THINGS ARE FALLING APART THEY MAY ACTUALLY BE FALLING INTO PLACE.

~UNKNOWN

    IMAGINATION IS THE ONLY WEAPON IN THE WAR AGAINST REALITY.

~UNKNOWN

    NEVER LOOK BACK. IF CINDERELLA WENT TO PICK UP HER SHOE, SHE WOULDN'T HAVE BECOME A PRINCESS.

~UNKNOWN

    FEED YOUR FAITH AND YOUR FEARS WILL STARVE TO DEATH.

~JOYCE MEYER

    NEVER FORGET WHO YOU ARE.   

~MUFASA

    THE WORLD WILL NOT BE DESTROYED BY THOSE WHO DO EVIL, BUT BY THOSE WHO WATCH THEM WITHOUT DOING ANYTHING.

~ALBERT EINSTEIN

     WHEN PEOPLE HURT YOU OVER AND OVER, THINK OF THEM AS SANDPAPER.

     THEY MAY SCRATCH AND HURT YOU A BIT, BUT IN THE END YOU END UP POLISHED, AND THEY END UP USELESS.

~CHRIS COLFER

My experience at the Dollar Store. (mostly just Me turning an experience into a Dramatic story)

OK, so I was at the Dollar Tree with My Grandpa, and I saw it! My future Key chain!!!!! I started Freaking out in the front of this store. (My Grandpa rolled his eyes and walked away.) The Lady at the front asked if I was OK. She asked if I needed an inhaler. Then I said, "I need that Key chain! it has TASSELS" then at that moment she ruined My life! My entire existence! My purpose here on this Planet! This horrible dream crushing, soul eating, monster of a Cashier, asked "oh, are you Graduating this year." At that moment I looked closer. I almost fainted! My life flashed before My Eyes! I felt as if death had finally come upon Me! The perfect key had the numbers 2014 on it. I wailed in agony, as My heart was ripped from My chest. My life is ruined! 

And that is the story of how I got kicked out of the Dollar Store.

People bug Me!

So today I went to Me best friends house. I was trying to memorize lines. D-:  There was this little Girl who is very LOUD and very BOSSY. We were building Ninjas out of Legos and then building flying Cars for them! Well she told Me "You can only build with Rainbow Legos because this person has these colors and I have these colors blah blah blah blah Etc." Can You say bossy britches? Then She told Me that I cant have A helicopter because that technology doesn't exist yet. But FLYING CARS do? (Girl! Not even I am that Bossy and Manipulative!!!)  No Offence to the family Of course.