"It is not the ctitic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

~Theodore Roosevelt

Sunday, January 30, 2011

So Grateful

~Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.
~Charles Simic

This next week is going to be rough. I know it. With a French test, French oral, Elang test, British lit paper, scholarship application deadline, all my homework, getting an apartment for spring/summer and fall... I will be going shopping for chocolate tomorrow.

I was thinking on my way back to Provo this morning how grateful I am... and thought maybe listing some things would help me have a better week.

First off, I spent last night in the ER with my boyfriend-the gun he was shooting backfired and cut up his face. Sounds more dramatic than it looked-at least when I saw it several hours later. But he had metal pieces in his eye they had to "drill" out and flush out and everything. But I'm sure it could have been much worse. And I'm so grateful it wasn't.

I'm grateful my family lives close to where I go to school. So I can go home on weekends and for birthdays and Sunday dinners. I don't think I could handle going a whole semester away from them.

I'm grateful we're a month into school. February just sounds so much closer to spring and then end of classes... only to start again, but then it's a clean slate... sort of

I'm grateful for all the wonderful things I have... laptop, cell phone (even when it randomly stops working and then you don't get messages from boyfriends who you would've been able to see, roommates who want to make sure you're not stuck on the side of the road, visiting teaching companions about changed times, visiting teachers who want to come... wow, I missed a lot!), MP3 player, car, internet, hair straightener, etc.

I'm grateful for the gospel-I do not know where I'd be without it. Scares me to think about.

And a million other things I can't think of now and I've lost interest in this blog post right now... haha
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