I'm right where I need to be.

As I've been going through each day for these past few weeks, I've noticed something which has made me feel very happy and content with where I am at in life. For the past few months I've had struggles with where my life trials and situations had taken me, and I was having a very difficult time trying to figure out why I was where I ended up, and what even got me there in the first place.

It is so peaceful and soothing to be able to finally say I have gained an enormous amount of knowledge in regards to who I am--not only as a person, but as a friend, a sister, a daughter, and as a hopeful individual reaching for a dream to help others on more of a deeper level as a counselor. I feel I have truly found my path that really fits who I am and what my goals are within my life. It is so great to be able to genuinely know that I have used all of the struggles, pain, and frustrations in my life as a positive guidance to lead me where I will be able to utilize and draw back from it when helping others. Every trial I had to go through has had a purpose, and even in my daily life right now it has proven to help others in similar situations.

It inspires me more than I had ever even imagined it would.. I feel that helping others is a natural sense to me-- Sometimes I can see an individuals true feelings without having even the slightest clue that anything is wrong. With this, I always have the desire and urge to help people who are in emotionally draining, frustrating, trying times.

Anyways, I guess what I'm trying to say here is I feel like I have finally began to see some of the light that has been waiting to shine through all of these major turn points in my life. I have changed my life almost completely, surrounding myself with people who I can relate to and who are true to their words--allowing myself to walk away from bad relationships and friendships which only seemed to be weighing me down. Selfish people used to have their place in my world, and now I have realized that the energy they all were taking from me wasn't nearly worth it just to have someone around, or have someone to call.

I think that takes a huge amount of courage, to face the fear of change and do it anyway.
Ahh, it feels so nice though.

Now, back to studying and homework.
:)