The Necessities of Life

When things in life do not work out as well as you had hoped, there is always another option. Many people may not understand what that plan is for them, but eventually, things will work out for the best. Sometimes, things in life may be at chaos right now, and everything may seem to be falling apart. To some extent, there is a reason those things are falling apart right now. You have to go through a lot of pain, agony, and suffering to get to happiness. If everyone was intended to have happiness, rainbows, and sunshine, the world would not be what it is today. No one really succeeds in life until they suffer some complications. These complications teach us how to become a better, stronger version of ourselves. We learn how to get through the most difficult parts of our lives. After this, it seems as though anything is possible.  It is rare for an individual to succeed on their first try. Many people try, and then they fail over and over again. This does not make anyone less...

Congratulations! You have been selected to be one of the lucky females to stand by your friend's side on the happiest day of her life! This is one of the most important duties you will ever have to fulfill in your life. A bridesmaid is a special human being, and you have been chosen by the bride-to-be to help her go through this amazing, yet stressful, journey of her life. With this being said, you have ultimately agreed that no matter what happens, no matter how crazy the bride may get, you have certain obligations to abide by. First of all, you are not the one getting married- she is! Your most important task is to put all of your selfishness aside and be there for your friend. The last thing you want is to have an upset bride because she does not feel as special as she should be feeling, just because you do not like something she has planned. You have to be supportive, regardless if you agree with the outcome or not. This rule is most important when dress shopping takes place....

When you are in love with someone, there are many different phases that you will encounter along the way. At first, it is innocent puppy love. The relationship is brand new, just coming out of the package. You treat it with care because it is so delicate. As time moves on, you begin to grow emotionally and physically with one another. You begin to feel such strong connections, and you fall in love. There are some points in which you begin to encounter disagreements and you argue a lot, but that does not make you fall out of love any less. No matter how many disagreements you will have, the love you share only grows stronger. Suddenly, many months have passed from the start of your relationship to where you are now. You both have changed, and you both are growing continuously. The intimacy becomes stronger and stronger. You both adapt well into your families, and you now begin to develop a clear insight into what you want in your future. You are so in love, but eventually, things begin...

Life is not as magical and wonderful as fairytales make it out to be. We are always struggling to find our one true love, to live happily ever after for the rest of our days. Although fairytales do entertain us, they sometimes give us unrealistic expectations for true love.  In the stories, the damsel in distress is rescued by the handsome young prince, and somehow these two, complete strangers fall in love and get married in a short amount of time. If we all are the damsels in distress facing everyday battles, then where are our princes to the rescue? Everyone has their own struggles. Every time we face these struggles we must accept the fact that we are on our own. No prince is going to unexpectedly show up on his white horse and make everything better. We have to learn how to face obstacles on our own, to show dominance against the dark forces trying to destroy our lives. Being a damsel in distress is not necessarily a bad thing either. The more obstacles we face, the stronger...

The most wonderful thing about life is that we have to power to be different kinds of beautiful. No human being is the exact same to anyone else. We are all different and beautiful in our own ways. Beautiful does not always mean exterior, but rather the interior. The way we share our humility and kindness to others is to define what it truly means to be beautiful. A beautiful soul is one that will simply change the world. Maybe not entirely, but within the small world they are living in. To have a beautiful soul is to be relentless, strong, and humble, and having the power to shed your given talents with the rest of the world. Falling in love is not as simple as movies and books make them out to be. Love at first sight simply does not exist. In order to fall in love with someone, you must reach their inner soul and experience their amazing personality. You must learn to appreciate those hidden features exquisitely to begin falling in love with them. Only then will you find the hidd...

I get it. You are alone on Valentine's Day. Your Instagram feed is filled with couples gushing over each other, so many flowers, a bunch of chocolates, and even some couples are now engaged. Good for them.  Guess what! You are not the only one spending this unnecessary holiday without the comfort of a dreamy male or female by your side. Today, so many ladies are spending the day by themselves, or surrounded by their other single girlfriends, drinking wine until they are so content with themselves that they start crying for no absolute reason.  Wine is the most sufficient form of healing. It is the life-saver that holds a strong female together in one piece. If you are alone today, or every Valentine's Day for the next several years, stop getting down on yourself. You have the comfort and support of all the single, independent ladies to rely on for that matter. Stop wishing that you are chained up in love, but celebrate the freedom to roam alone, independently, and chai...

Community college is one of the most emotional roller coasters I have experienced within my life. There have been moments of true wonder and awe where I loved every moment of it, but there were also days I did not feel great about it, and I wanted to quit. My senior year of high school was when I had decided that I wanted to be a middle school English teacher, and I was going to attend Ashland University the following year. After working on my career research paper and discovering the truth about college expenses and my future, I discovered that it was not meant to be. I had too much going on the rest of the year that I found myself lost and confused. It was not until the last few months before graduation that I decided to attend LCCC, but I had not yet decided on what I wanted to study. When I applied, I dedicated my major to Middle Childhood Education, but that was not my true calling to life. After graduation, I went and took assessments, talked to career counselors, and even di...

The essential truth to life is to fail and make mistakes. We grow as individuals, and we aspire to become greater humans than we already are. There is no point to life if we cannot learn and grow. We learn new material every single day, and it is from this new material that we can shine brighter than the days before the present, to mature vastly in ways our past selves do not understand. We grow in love, the kind where butterflies fill your entire stomach from rapidly travelling down a steep hill. The kind that makes you to not eat, not sleep, head over heels kind of love. Love is the very way of life that keeps the days worth living for. Without love, there would be no life, no reason to wake up every single morning to start the new day. The love we share together will help us to grow in life. Yes, we will get our hearts broken, and the keen sting from those heartbreaks will be just enough for us to turn our backs from love completely, but it is essential to grow from it, to find a ne...