Keep It Sweet: Is this it

Friends see things.
Great friends put things in perspective.

I really feel as though my life has been a trampoline this past year. The whole notion that I keep hitting rock bottom, makes no logical sense when put into context. In order to hit bottom over and over again, you have to get back up, and that is something in and of itself. I do get back up. I might fail, but I get back up. And that is worth something.

It was after a phonecall the other night, when a great friend helped to put things in perspective for me. Through the laughter, she helped me sort out some really important truths in my life: relationships, current location, and my overall potential. This friend has seen me at my best and worst, my lowest and my highest, my most stressed and my calmest (and all while working at the same place! hahah) While I continue to learn about myself, I can't excuse what people/friends/family learn about me...from their perspective. What better way to know something than to see it from all of its angles?

On my run yesterday, I didn't disappear in thought. I focused. I put everything that was last year into my run. All the hate, sadness, joy, rejection, and laughter went into this run. I busted out 2 miles in 13 minutes and 14 seconds. I didn't get lost in my music, which was extremely weird--I've never not been lost in the lyrics, absorbed in the beat.

It was in this new state of clarity that I was able to silence myself and simply run, and for that, I thank you.

In this new found silence I was able to hear someone ask me to join their soccer league. So, here I am, the newest (and youngest) member of the "True Age" soccer team. Yep, that's right--I now play soccer on Friday nights with moms and dads in their thirties and forties who played competitive soccer in college when I was an adolescent. Naturally, words cannot describe my excitement. I'll keep you posted on the game outcomes.

PUMP-UP SONG OF THE PAST TWO DAYS: