God is love

God is love

Attention: this is going to be one of those heart felt posts about my sappy life at BYU, so if you are about to barf, just stop now.

(Love this quote and I love yellow. Double whammy!)

Now that we have that covered, I want to tell you about this class I'm taking. . . It all started at the Bookstore. I printed my book list, and after it was a page and half long, I wanted to stab a watermelon. No seriously, I was T.O.'d. I almost had an emotional breakdown in the middle of the Bookstore, but then saw my high school dream crush, pulled myself together and decided it was time to drop Humanities 202: The study of early Asian cultures. Who signed me up for that garbage anyways? 

One of the downsides to being a Sophomore is that your course selection is still pretty crappy. I wanted to take an easy "A" Student development course. Actually, to be honest I wanted to take a flexibility course where all you do is stretch and then sleep. (And if you know me, you know I like my sleep.) But nooooo all that is ever left is the classes with weird professors or the extremely hard courses. Yeah well this time I lucked out. I found a course labeled "Positive Living," figured I could use some positivity up in here and I signed up.

Now to get to the point: it's amazing. This past week was probably the hardest one I've ever had while living away from home. However, the assignment we had in class helped me handle things in a completely positive way.

We were challenged to record in our journal three positive things about your day, and what role you played in making those events happen.

For how bad my days were, I had well beyond three good things happen to me everyday, and in most cases they were because of the people around me. This just made me realize how lucky I am to go to BYU (even if our football team had a bad day. . .), how lucky I am to have the friends that I do, and how incredibly awesome my family is. 

I guess it's safe to say that you don't realize how lucky you have it, until something bad happens to you. 

My cute friend Ash sent me a text the other day that said: "You were given this life because you were strong enough to handle it."

She's sweet. You know what else is sweet? That I'm in Physical Science class right now, and it's SUPER lame so I am blogging about the fact that my intermediate school crush is like five feet away from me. Creepy? Nahh. But that's beside the point. 

the point is, that I have realized I have a lot to be happy for. I'm not starving or homeless. I have a healthy body and all my family members. I have a car to drive, a job to go to, and I'm getting an excellent education. 

Quote of the day: "Understand the person you want to be, and then be that person."

Want to know who is a great example of this? My cute roommate who also celebrated 19 years of life yesterday. I've never really seen her in a bad mood, and I've lived with her for over a year now. yeah guys. I lucked out.

Woah this is really long. I guess all I have left to say is: God is love. 

Have a wonderful day!

Love, Al