Choose happy.

continuing on with the blog challenge!
#5: What is the hardest thing you have ever experienced?

Well...there's two that were pretty hard for me. You might think I'm dumb for thinking they're hard but i'm just throwing it out there!

*During the second half of the school year... I had way too much on my plate. I'm not meaning to brag or anything at all, but I was doing vball, bball, school, music, the gym.....again WAY too much for a 13 year old to handle!! Every day I'd come home from school at 5:30 from basketball and either go to the gym or vball right after. I wouldn't get home until late and then I would eat dinner. By the time that was over I had to fit everything else in...family time, homework, practicing. It was really overwhelming and I felt like I just couldn't handle everything. I would go to bed late and wake up early, and run from one thing to the next. I was tired, stressed out, anxious, and yet trying to be perfect at all the things I was doing. I compared myself. Then I started bringing myself down because I was doing so much and always so busy that I felt like I wasn't good at any one thing I was doing. My grades were dropping too. I'd try to come up with excuses and work harder, and it just made me more tired and it was worse. It finally all ended when basketball ended---only 1 sport, 2 instruments, and homework. Volleyball was only twice a week, and I went to the gym once a week instead of twice. I did homework on weeknights and practiced on weekends. Then I realized I never wanted to have that kind of stress again... So I dropped basketball. I realized I didn't even enjoy it and all it did was add stress and give me something to brag about doing. Ever since then I've been less stressed and happier, knowing I don't have to play basketball and feel so awful ever again. I can just focus on volleyball, the one sport that I ABSOLUTELY LOVE DOING!!! So if you can take one message from this lengthy paragraph it's get your priorities straight. Find the things that make you happy and do them. Find the things that make you unhappy and get rid of them. Simple as that. 




*When Emily moved I was crushed. She was my best friend in the world, she lived right next door, went to the same school, both played oboe, were the same age....she was the tater to my tot, the hip to my hop! We knew each others families like our own, and did practically EVERYTHING together. Nothing could split us apart...except her dads job. I was pretty depressed the month after and I thought I could never have as close a friend as Emily was to me. Which is probably true! Haha. But I learned to make more friends and be happy again. Don't get me wrong, Emily is still my BEST FRIEND IN THE WHOLE WORLD!!! ( by the way I'm seeing her tomorrow for the first time in over a year! ) I'm just saying that you can still learn to be happy, no matter how far apart your best friend is. So if you ever have a close friend that moves, remember. Happiness exists! And you can find it!


So the point is...you can't always control what happens to you. But you can control how you feel. So take control. Choose to be happy!