Still Young

So i have been thinking a lot about where i am today and how life went so fast. When i was younger i remember that i couldn't wait to grow up. being a teenager would be so awesome and i was just so excited...kinda like the movie 13 going on 30...i hope that most or all of you have seen it and if you haven't i suggest you get on that its worth your time. :) but that is how i remember feeling in most of my younger years. However, now i feel like i am comparing my life to peter pan and i wish i could live in never never land and NEVER grow up. many would probably say that i am a sheltered child, and i can admit that YEAH! i was a bit sheltered while living at home, and still am now even though I'm living away from home on my own able to be free and branch out and do as i please... but i don't. i find myself living exactly as i would if i was still at home, going to bed at a reasonable time, going to all my classes, doing my homework, going to church regularly, and i still have yet to go to a party.... but i am totally okay with that. i think i realize how i was blessed with such an amazing family that i would never do anything that i think would disappoint them. Being away at college has forced me to grow up a lot but really to be honest... for having been away from home for almost a full school year...i still feel so young..and frankly I'm okay with that! :)

Looking Back...

I am a freshmen in college now and I find that I am constantly looking ahead and working for my future. I realize now that looking ahead and working towards things for my future is something that I have been doing since I was very little. Im sure that many of you might feel the same. as a child you always have dreams and goals that you want to achieve in your future. For me, as im sure most girls have, when i was young i dreamed that i was going to be a singer in a girl band with my elementary friends :) ...or maybe i am just making a fool of myself by admitting to that.... but anyway, I liked that idea until i realized that i am not musically talented hahaha. Also as a young girl i was always a tom boy and loved to play every and all sports and dreamed of becoming a pro sport athlete. as people grow up i feel like you go through many ideas of what you plan to do with the rest of your life and back then it is normal and okay. life goes by very fast and before you know it its time to make a real reational decision of what you want to do or be for the rest of your life. it is normal for college students to not know what they want to do with their life, and they change their major a few times before setteling down with one....or when they do pick one they just pick it because it sounds fun but they dont really think of what they will be able or want to do with that degree. I was lucky and was able to figure out what i wanted to do for the rest of my life when i was a freshmen in high school. I knew that ever since i was young i wanted to do something in the health field i dreamed of being a pediatrician but then decided that i wasnt into that many more years of schooling...but when i got to high school and was playing sports for school i became familiar with the athletic training profession. I was so excited because it was like the best of both worlds: i would be able to be around sports that i love for the rest of my life AND i would be helping/caring for people in the health field!! i was very excited and finally in my senior year of high school i was the student athletic trainer for my school and it was the best experience of my life. I KNEW that that was exactly what i wanted to do with my life. What i was wondering is if any of you dreamed of being something when you were younger and as you look at your life now...how have your desires changed?