Short and Sweet [VLOG 3]
[***Called it a vlog and everything. Just for you Amanda McPherson. Sorry no transcript yet.***]
New beginnings
As I discussed with my friend Amanda last night, this is the hardest part of the entire moving process. This time right up to the actual move. There is a lot of emotion welling up inside of me because…this is truly it. This is my last night as a resident of North Carolina, a state that I have lived and invested in for 5 years now. And it’s not necessarily the fact that I am going into something unknown, it’s just that I am comfortable here. I have friends here. I have family here. I have great memories here, but the beauty of all of this is that they will still be here when I get back, for the most part. Of course people may move, but the relationships and memories that I have shared will never go away. I know that all of my relationships, whether they ended good or bad, were in my life at a specific time for a specific reason. I only hope that I could have had as great of an impact on their lives as I have had. I possess no regrets and would do all of it again the same way (yes, even the failed relationships). I learned so much about myself over the past 5 years. I learned that I could take hardship and difficulties in life and make them something that I could learn from and grow through. I’ve loved (well, liked) and lost, gone on 24 hr road trips to Florida, impromptu trips to NYC, random trips down the road to get donuts, and even helped start a Sunday night tradition. I love my friends and they mean the world to me. I hope and pray that we stay together in the coming years of our lives. I have sat with my friend Kristen talking about what our lives will look like in the next 5 years. We are gonna be all over the place, but we will always have the time we spent together.
I am at a new beginning in my life, and I want to live in every moment as it comes. I want to see God in every interaction and every opportunity. I want Him to work through and in me. I want to be a part of something. I pray that I will look at this opportunity as not an end to a beginning but a continuation of the good work that God has begun in me.
I love this quote…
“Live. And Live Well.
BREATHE. Breathe in and Breathe deeply.
Be PRESENT. Do
not be past. Do not be future. Be now.
On a crystal clear, breezy 70 degree day,
roll down the windows and
FEEL the wind against your skin. Feel the warmth of
the sun.
If you run, then allow those first few breaths on a cool Autumn day to
FREEZE your lungs and do not just be alarmed, be ALIVE.
Get knee-deep in a novel
and LOSE track of time.
If you bike, pedal HARDER and if you crash then crash
well.
Feel the SATISFACTION of a job well done-a paper well-written, a project
thoroughly completed, a play well-performed.
If you must wipe the snot from your
3-year old’s nose, don’t be disgusted if the Kleenex didn’t catch it all
because soon he’ll be wiping his own.
If you’ve recently experienced loss, then
GRIEVE. And Grieve well.
At the table with friends and family, LAUGH.
If you’re
eating and laughing at the same time, then might as well laugh until you puke.
And if you eat, then SMELL.
The aromas are not impediments to your day. Steak on
the grill, coffee beans freshly ground, cookies in the oven.
And TASTE.
Taste every ounce of flavor.
Taste every ounce of friendship.
Taste every ounce of Life.
Because-it-is-most-definitely-a-Gift.”
~ Kyle Lake
