The reason for the season baby.

   Happy Christmas everyone. I hope the true reason for this season is still in your heart. Not the presents and the baubles, but the togetherness, the laughter and the love. For me, it wasn't the opening of the presents or the enthusiam towards the gifts that made me smile, but those lingering moments, the laughter and smiles when remembering those fond past christmas memories and the love that floated over everyone like a cloud of smoke. Sadly, no matter what... I always get down around the holidays. Christmas gets more commercialized each year and there is nothing I can do about it but sit there and watch as it consumes the people around me. Not with the fact that this season is supposed to bring us together, to make us thankful with what we have and who we have in our lives... . But rather the people are consumed in last minute shopping, what they will recieve and who can purchase the greatest gift. For all you out there that still remember the true meaning of christmas in your heart, then I give you my congratulations. Cherish those smiles... Those moments of laughter and those moments that make your heart swell with joy as you realize how lucky you truely are and never let the true meaning of christmas fade.

   Birthday in 2 days. My current feeling about this include: anxiousness, nerviousness and "blindness".  So many things will take place in my 16th year of life including either acceptance or rejection to UWC, Service project to Kenya, whether or not i'll be able to raise $12,000 for Kenya and so much more. I think my biggest fear about turning 16 is that I know as soon as I do, there is no hiding from what lies ahead. No backing out, or running away. I will have to face my future with an open mind, a understanding heart and a couragious soul. We'll just have to wait and see how it turns out!

Quote of the day:
"The smoothest way is full of stones" - Yiddish proverb