Some things change and some remain the same...

Well, it has been a long, long while since I have posted anything to this blog and I feel bad because of this fact. I often think of it and I often go back to it and read about my year in Belfast as a quite reflection time for my re-entry process. However, when I go to write a new blog I just think...what I am doing now is not that impressive. How am I going to live up to the hype of last year. Like so many have asked me...how are you going to top Belfast?

When I first received that question upon coming home my initial reaction was, "what a horrible question to ask a 23 year old woman"....what do you mean what am I going to do to top it, I would think, am I supposed to just lie down and die now that I am home?

As you can see this question, as innocent as it might have been offered to me, shook me to my core. The rebellion of the notion that I would come home and do nothing but sit and wish for my past, I think in retrospect, helped me to get where I am today. 

I have been home for over two months now and as I am typing this and reading it back to myself I cannot believe that it has been that long since I came home. In some ways, such as life, time has flown by and in some ways it has crept along. I have two jobs that I love very much, both of which challenging me in ways I have never been challenged before. I work with kids still...every day. I do much the same things that I did in Belfast and I find that my experience in Belfast helps me everyday, without a doubt in my mind. 

Here is the deal. The person that asked me that illusive question a few months ago...and the thing is I can't even remember who said it....did not know that it was going to shake me up. They did not know that it was going to start within me a movement to not lie down, to get up every morning being thankful for the past but ready for today and tomorrow. At first I was disgusted with this concept but today, I thank the person that said that to me. They made me realize that it is not in what we have done yesterday or even what we will do tomorrow that counts, it is what we do today that makes a difference. And today, I will live, love, and laugh. 

Blessings-

Melissa