It's been a full year... I used to be an idiot, indecisive, illogical, hurt. And now, maybe I'm still some of those things sometimes, but I'm different now. Happy, at peace, okay.
It's amazing to think back through all of the things that got me to where I am right now. I can wish all I want that they had never happened, but it won't change the fact that those are the very things that changed me.
I know that there are still people who can't see it, who don't know how afraid I used to be, or who think that I'm still the scared little girl I was a year ago. But there are people who know and don't care, who love me enough to understand that hurt and who push me to keep moving forward.
Life Lesson with Karla, brought to you by The Macaulley Whitlock Foundation:
Life lesson #2: Don't give up on yourself.
Never let the past dictate how you act in the present; don't let yourself fall for the same mistakes that brought you down in the first place. Keep trusting that you can get out of the mess, that you can find a way out even though it might be the hardest thing you have had to do at that point in your life. There will still be that one person who will still find everything that is wrong with you, even though there are hundreds of others who love you just the way you are; don't let that one person manipulate you into thinking that you aren't worth anything. Because whatever they say is the farthest thing from the truth.
I know I say this too much, but I am so grateful to be where I am right now. Right here, right now. This is life, and it is beautiful.
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