Trial and Error

From as far back as I can remember I loved breaking things apart and putting them back together. I had a love for legos, blocks, and anything with screws and wires. My mom believed that I would become an architect or do some sort of designing. Even to this day I fix things around the house. But there are just some things that I can't fix.

We learn through trial and error. You try something, if you don't get it, then you try again until eventually you get it. My mom always tells me the same thing whenever I want to give up, or I tell her I can't do it.
"Nobody is born knowing how to do everything."
And nobody is. We all have to go through life trying new things and experiencing defeats. But when you fight through all the struggles and come out a winner, there is that sense of accomplishment, that sense of pride. And whenever you look at yourself in the mirror you can say, "hey I did something today." And I've carried that idea over to my life.

Everyone has their flaws, but that's what makes us human. It's how we carry ourselves and adjust to new environments that reflects on the person that we are. Everyone is different, but everyone is the same. We all want to go to a good school, get good grades, have a nice solid group of friends, and to have a respectable future. We go through our lives re-inventing ourselves. And that's because we don't know everything. We have to try different things, hang out with different people, make numerous decisions. Sometimes what we choose is wrong, sometimes what we choose is right, but we have to make those choices.
There's a point in everyone's life when they decide on what they want to do, and on who they want to be. But we still continue to make errors and there's no way of stopping that. What we can do is learn from those errors so we won't make those same bad decisions.

But sometimes no matter how hard you try, there are just some things you can't fix.

In The Year Two Thousand

I blinked. 2008 is gone.

I sit here wishing to write something meaningful. To write something beautiful that others can relate to. I sit here reflecting on the past year. Graduation, Prom, the Friendships gained and lost, College. I sit here knowing that I don't have any regrets. I sit here knowing that I won't have any regrets. And I sit here looking at the New Year.

My friend told me a story about a girl that he met at orientation. She told him that what she wanted out of college was to find herself. When I heard this story I thought that statement was a load of crap and I busted up laughing. But lately I've been thinking about that statement. Normally I don't make New Year's resolutions because I know I'm not going to live up to them, and this year is no different. But I want that statement lodged in the back of my mind.

I blinked. 2009 is here.

"So this is the New Year
And I don't feel any different"