BLOG #14! SECOND CHANCES :)

If I had the chance to go back in time to a previous point in my life I would defiantly do it. I would go back in time and be nicer to people who weren’t just like me. No one is ever going to be the perfect, all-around, ideal best friend. So, if I could I would go back and try to be nicer to everyone. Even people I don’t like very much, I would make a more conscientious effort to be there for people, even if they are a little different from me. I think I would have more friends now, if when we were little, I would have been nicer to people in my class. I don’t think I was ever really flat out mean to people; I just never tried to reach out of my comfort zone to make people feel very comfortable around me. I think if I would have just tried a little harder, given a couple more people a helping hand or a compliment, I would be able to look around and say that I had a lot of friends because over the years, I always made a conscious effort to reach out to people always be nice, and never hurt anyone’s feelings. That will be a lesson I will try my hardest to teach my children because I want them to be happy, and have a lot of friends, so to make friends you have to be one, so be nice to everyone and in the end you will succeed.

Someone Else's Skin! blog #13 :)

You never really know what someone else is thinking, feeling, or how they would handle a situation until you take a step into their life, into their shoes. When in a sticky situation, or even just sometime when you disagree with someone, I personally, always try to take a look at what their saying from their point of view. I’m not always very good at it, but it’s something that I think is an important, skill to have.
I would have to say, though, right off the top of my mind, that there is no moment in time where I look back and am like that is the exact moment in time when I took a look at life, from someone else’s point of view. Over my whole life, my parents have cared for me dearly, and I appreciate that very much. But I never really knew what it was like to be a parent until my little sister was born, she’s 12 years younger than me, so I get a pretty good dosage of what it’s like to be a parent. I watch and care for her. I love her very much! But I never really saw what it really was like to watch over someone and protect and care for them. So, I would have to say, the moment in time when I stepped into someone else’s shoes was when my little sister Sarah was born. I figured out, in a sense, what it was like to be a parent.