Mar 04, 2008 14:06
It's a not so pretty day outside but at least I'm at home AND I don't have another test for FOUR weeks! I can hardly believe it. I took my final for behavioral this morning and ended up with a B overall. I really, really enjoyed this class. I learned SO much about myself and made several realizations about my childhood and how fucked up it was. I think I already knew it was but, you hear all these horrible stories about the worst kinds of abuses people endure, you know, and there was no way I was gonna complain. But, yeah. So, I think the most important realization I made in the class was that you never know what other people are going through so you should try to be nice to them. Maybe that chick at the grocery store that was a bitch because her cat just died. You just don't know. I also learned that I need to stop letting myself feel guilty for stuff I shouldn't feel guilty for. I need to be able to tell people -especially family members- no and not feel bad about it... even when they lay on the guilt trips. I need to not feel bad for the fact that I don't really like my dad. I mean, I love him, he's my dad, but I wouldn't want to, like, be his friend outside of that relationship. He's just too self-absorbed. There's this really inspiring saying about how you get to choose who gets to have a front row seat in your life and who you move to the back and I think everyone should live by this concept and get rid of all the negative, draining people in their lives and surround themselves with the good hearted, happy people... The people with souls that soak up all the beauty in the world and reflect it back. I want to be one of those people. I'm trying.
Oh, I bought this book the other night, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose. I read a bit of the first chapter to Luke the other night and, judging by the first few pages, I think everyone should read this book. Oprah's been pushing it for a couple weeks now, which is why I bought it and apparently it really is changing people's lives for the better. I am so excited to read it now that I have a break from school!