My hero.
When I think about the different relationships I have encountered in my lifetime, I find myself extremely lucky to have the close kind of relationship I have found with my mother. My mother is my best friend. I am very thankful for this and try to never take it for granted. I know that I can talk to my mother about anything. She is always there for me and always has been; even if she doesn’t always approve of my choices in life. When I fall down she is always there to pick up the pieces. I know that I can always call her when I am upset and she will listen, or drop everything and drive five hours from the Outer Banks to Wilmington to make me feel better.
I know that I am lucky because many people are not this close with their mother. I feel like I am a spitting image of my mother. She has the best heart out of anyone I have ever met, and every day I want to become more like my mother.
My mother is also the hardest working woman I know. Every day she amazes me by the things she does. Whether it is building and designing a new ocean front beach house or selling real estate and working on deals from 8 in the morning to 12 at night, she never gives up or slacks off. I do not know many women who own their own real estate and property management businesses. She has such a passion for her job and for truly helping people choose the right house to purchase. It is not about the money for her.
Although she works hard, her family and friends always come first. She will drop everything at the moment of someone close to her needing something, and does not think twice about it. She also is always willing to help someone out who is less fortunate or just needs help doing something. She will chaperone on piano camp field trips, hold fundraisers for children who have disabilities and always giving people less fortunate her clothing and things that she does not find useful anymore.
I have the utmost respect for my mom and I am so lucky to have a mother as great as she is. She is always so proud of me for even doing the smallest things. She is always encouraging me to better myself and to work as hard as I possibly can. If I can ever be half the woman she is when I grow up I will be so happy. She is the most caring and hardest working woman I know.
My mother is my role model and my best friend.
Election ’08
With the Presidential Election only a few days away, I am starting to become stressed out about who I am going to vote for. I feel like it is such a confusing situation for me since I am not a die-hard republican or a die-hard democrat. I may sound ignorant and a little uneducated but I feel like I do not know enough about each party to make my decision.
I know what which party my parent’s are voting for, and that does have a lot of influence over my decision, but I still want to know more. I know that having the privilege to vote is a big deal and you should be 100% positive for who you are voting for. I feel like there is a lot of pressure for my generation to vote in this election being that it will be our futures that we are voting for and it being such a close selection.
Whenever I try to talk to someone about my decision I feel as if the person I speak to can be very persuasive and biased on their decision and which side they are on, which is understandable.
I guess that I have a lot of studying to do this week since it is the last week of vote, because I really do feel like my age groups decision is important and everyone should take voting seriously.
Everything happens for a reason.
As I was thinking about what to write my next blog about, one of my best friends from high school called me upset about breaking up with her boyfriend she has had of two years. She has been trying to overcome this rough patch in her life for months now and still can not seem to do it.
After trying to give her advice- because I too have been in the same exact situation, it had made me realize a lot of things. Life is not always easy and it never will be. In life you are constantly facing hard situations that you must overcome in order to make you stronger.
I too had broken up with my boyfriend who I had been in love with for years. I thought it was the end of the world. At this time it was by far one of the worst things that had happened to me in my life so far. I look back on that now and realize ultimately if this has been one of the hardest things I have had to face than I am lucky. That was until I lost one of my best friends this past year.
I have realized many people have been through so much more than this and have become stronger because of these situations.
Since then, I still do not think I have it as bad as other people, but I have had a few more rough patches in my life that have made me a stronger person today.
This past April I lost my very best guy friend to still an “unknown accident” that occurred at a college campus’s Greek Week. It was so unexpected and sudden. I have never had to deal with the death of a close friend and to this day it is still hard to accept that it has now happened to me.
When receiving the phone call that afternoon, saying that Hall had been hurt and was in the hospital due to bleeding in the brain. I never imagined that it would lead to his death. I figured that he had gotten drunk and fell down and was now in the hospital for a few days. Everyone did. It was a few days later that we received another phone call hearing that on he day he was supposed to be released from the hospital, Hall had had a seizure and was now on life support. This hit me like a ton of bricks. I never imagined that I could possibly lose my best friend, who was like a brother to me at the age of 20.
In a frantic rush I called my friend who also goes to school in Wilmington. We decided that we needed to go to Virginia to visit him in the hospital and pray that the support of his family and friends would bring him back to life.
On the four hour trip up to the hospital we received a call from Hall’s sister saying that they were going to end the life support at 10:00 that night because there was nothing else that they could do to save him. This had been the hardest thing I have ever had to hear in my life.
We got to the hospital around 9:50, right as they were about to “pull the plug.” As my knees were shaking uncontrollably I fell to the ground and sat there with all of my friends as we cried in shock of what just happened.
To this day I still try not to think about what happened, and just constantly think of all the good memories we all had shared in the past. And that a situation like this has made me and my friends so thankful for each other and so much closer since we have all gone off to college. I have realized that things like this do happen for a reason and that you must have good times along with the bad to remind you what you are thankful for. It is still an incredibly hard thing to deal with everyday and I just have to accept that it has happened and it has made me become a stronger person and to be thankful for everyone who has come into and made an impact on my life.
