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.