what if..

   DO you ever wonder IF you changed any one thing in your life, how it would effect everything else?? I do... all of the time. Right now my current dilemma is what if I was in bed right now, instead of in a classroom at VCU feeling awful! I have a crampy body, congestion, headache, I feel nauseous..and yet I am trying to brave out classes. What I was in my warm bed with hot tea and a piece of bread with honey on it. Would life be better? My answer for this one is YES, that is why I'm leaving VCU after this class because the choice I made this morning to come here was a little too ambitious for me. But what about the serious stuff??

    What if I avoided all of the mess and troubles I have had with VCU in the first place. What if I went to Longwood, JMU, RMC, CNU...anywhere but here. I would have avoided extra money spent on a year of school over, headaches from advising appointments and scheduling issues, I would have gotten more "real life experiences" by living away from home, and the list goes on and on. BUT what I would have MISSED out on is...

-Making my faith MY OWN
-Being with my family through a lot of thick and thin situations
-Falling in love with my best friend, and having an amazing relationship with him that I would not trade -for anything in the world
-Finding a second family in Nicole Unice's Family
-Meeting and walking life with a BUNCH of high school girls
-Enriching my relationship with Courtney, Leslie and Emily
......And TONS more.

I could say I wish I never went to this school, but now that would be a bold faced lie. The little bumps that VCU has given me to go over, have made me who I am today, they have strengthened my faith, given me more chances to practice being bold, and they have allowed all of the above to happen.

...SO you won't ever hear me say this again, but Thank you God for allowing me to attend VCU, because going here is making me a stronger person and has allowed me the chance to have life long relationships with people that had been around me all along, but that I was too stubborn to notice.

Andrew and I

Me, my best friends and my brother

Me and my family