8/8

It's amazing how quickly one comment can make you reevaluate everything you thought to be right. But what's more amazing is how fickle the human mind is and can be. I will be the first to admit that I daily struggle with my faith, what I believe is right and wrong- not my moral compass, but how I don't see smoking or drinking as a sin necessarily (but when it becomes an addiction is a very real illness), or how I too think like so many millennials (and whatever my generation is called) and don't see it as a problem to not be completely involved in a church. And other questions of life.

So a couple weeks ago when a blast from my past said something along the lines of "maybe you need someone who sees the world a little differently" it really made me question everything. And this week, when a very close friend and great woman of God AGREED with that statement, and said that there's a little leeway for everything, my mind was all of a sudden blown.

I have been so focused on living this by the book life, but I have only gotten myself into situations and relationships that I don't love. I have prayed and trusted and felt led into these places, but maybe there was more to them that didn't get nurtured or understood.

I believe God created us to be people of wander. Of chances. Of second, third and fourth chances. Of Growth. Of change. Of doing. Of creating. Of life.

The definition of life is: The condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death.

 So what do you do when the right situation comes along, but 2/8 of the things you thought should be one way, aren't? Do you overlook them? Do you compromise? Do you say "well, it's the perfect job in the worst town" or "Well, he's the unicorn I've wanted in every other way" or do you simply say "it's not the full 8/8."


 I have a vision for my life. A goal. I have things I want to accomplish, I have completely attainable dreams. But with those dreams, there have to be people in your life who will push you to accomplish those things. There has to be the job who is understanding and accommodating to the fact that you need to work, but also have a family, or other responsibilities, as well as a drive to better your life. There has to be those family members, significant others, friends, who stand behind you and encourage you every step of the way. I have these things, for the most part. But I also have better opportunities and relationships and friendships waiting out there in the world.

So when do you look at everything you thought to be right and true and good, and say it's time for change, and take the plunge? How much courage does it take? How do you know it's the "right" thing, or do you just sort of say "YOLO" and go for it? (I'm inclined to go the yolo* route these days).
 I don't know the right answer here, but I do know that life holds so much more than we think it does. There's an entire world out there that is ours for the discovering, if we'll only take the adventure.


*YOLO- You Only Live Once for those of you not hip to the lingo days**
** yolo itself is years old, that's where my knowledge ends. "It's been lit, fam" (I believe that's a legit sentence hahaha ;)