Life Lessons

How I Have Learned Through Experience

“Short cuts make long delays.” - Unknown

Life has never been easy for me. People are constantly coming and going, I have moved schools almost every 2 years, and half the time I have no clue what on earth I am doing. This may make you think I am a train wreck, and while not everything goes as I have planned it. I have learned a lot through all the changes and mistakes that have happened.

One of the most important things that took me the longest time ever to learn was to live in the moment. I am a planner and still today I am always thinking about whats the next big thing in life. However, I try to appreciate the little things a lot more and the down moments. I learned that not everything has to be big and high on life and crazy and that although those times look great for my Instagram and to laugh back on. The moments that are a lot more chilled out have more of an impact on me and I will always cherish them down the line and after the experience is over.

Another thing that I have learned and believe in life by experiencing it constantly and having to embrace it is changing. I gave a senior reflection on it this year simply because no matter who you are you have to expect it to happen in some way shape or form. For myself, it happened so constantly that my outlook on it is constantly changing along with the change. Right now and this ties back to living in the moment, the biggest thing I would say about it is to have a positive outlook on it. Life is not easy so as human beings when something good is happening to us we love is and try to embrace it and hold onto it as long as we can. So usually when change comes, it is seen as a burden or something sad that has to affect us so much, which then puts us in a negative mindset towards what's new to come. However, I like to have my little pity party and then have a positive outlook. Most of the time when change is occurring or going to occur it will end up with you as a happier person. Sure during the moment, it may not be what you want, however, we all have to take challenging and difficult steps in order to reach the light at the end of the tunnel. People have told me and I haven't realized it till recently that everything happens for a reason and it truly does. We all have to take hardship in order to have what's good.

One final life lesson and belief that I have learned from experience is to put yourself out there and put your nerves aside. Since last year I have been dealing a lot with anxiety and doing simple things like going up to give a senior reflection wanted to make me collapse. However, all these situations that I didn't want to do, I ended up getting forced into someone that cares about me, and to be honest I couldn't be more thankful for that. Most of the time the experiences I have been thrown into have been lifechanging like my youtube and learning how to fly catch on the flying trapeze at camp. While some like public speaking or confronting people in the heat of the moment has been hard to do, its something that I am pushing myself every day to work on.

With all things considered, life is NOT easy and everyone has a different experience. However, through all the experiences and beliefs I have learned some important life lessons that I would never give up on and will continue to follow for a long way to come.