It's been really fun and really scary and really great and really amazing and really terrifying and really amazing and really telling and really perfect and really not at all what I expected! Someone told me that I should keep a good journal while I was out here . . . so that's exaclty what I didn't do.What I have learned:
1. People are so incredibly different! It's amazingly more than you think . . . people are crazy different!
2. So much stuff about who Ashley is and how her personality works.
3. What the south is all about and where the slow life comes from.
4. Who the Rodgerses are and how I like them SO much and want to hang out with them forever!
5. The Rodgerses are the most talented muscial theatre family in the world
6. Asking Fathers if you can marry their daughters is kinda scary - but really rewarding!
7. Southern food is amazing.
8. A lot of crazy stuff about myself - I can go into detail later.
9. How I have chosen a really hardcore and serious path for my life, and how the option is mine to back down and live an easier life. But how it will really be worth it.
10. etc. etc. etc.
11. Oh yeah, and just this morning I was reading the blog that ashley made for my birthday, which made me so happy that I cried when I read it. Um . . . I learned that I must not take life for granted and that I must see life moment to moment and live in the moment because a big source of dissatisfaction in human life is making too many expectations and then them getting blown. I learned that I must be greatful for what is happening now. Reading the past of our relationship showed me that I expect a lot now, that would have been thrilling extra stuff then. And that helped me shift my paradigm a big bit. I have just always been way to "sensitive" ever since I was a little boy. I assign meening to every little thing, look, word, touch and everything else that happens - I am overly annylitical and that has been a serious detriment in my life! Now is the time to stop that nonsense!
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