Alter My Course

Life is like a rock wall that over time changes over time, but all paths will lead you to the top, no matter how much they change. I learned how to rock climb and actual climbing wall this semester and it was the coolest thing I have ever done. This experience really made me think about how I got to this point in my life and how I would have never been here if I would not of had a life altering situation in high school. I was never supposed to go to A&M. As a kid I played tennis and continued all the way up to my senior year of high school. I had college scholarship opportunities to play all over the USA and it wouldn't cost my parents a dime. Then in an instant I had my whole lives path to play tennis in college just taken away from me in an instant. Right after we came in second in the State finals for tennis I was in a horrible car accident that completely changed my entire course of life. Suddenly I had no idea what my future held, where I was going to go to college, or what I was going to do with my life. It is weird that one little second could change your entire life, but I have never been more thankful looking back at my life that it happened the way it did. Yes, I was devastated and destroyed my shoulder, but I would have never gone to A&M or met the people that I have. I never thought that my life would end up like this, but I am so blessed it did. Sometimes changing the course in your life is the best thing that can happen for you in the long run.  Change is not the enemy. You are the enemy for fighting the life altering change instead of embracing it.

Look Closer

Graffiti park. Over this past spring break, on my way to float the Frio river, I managed to convince my friends to make a quick pit stop through Austin so that I could go to graffiti park. A place of pure mischief, beauty, and chaos. So much random art that comes together to make a huge art piece but dive in closer and see so much more. My Catholic mother has always hated graffiti! She can't get pasted the so called tackiness of it. In her mind a wall that has writing or drawing on it is out of place and she doesn't want anything to do with it, but how could you see something like this any not want to look closer at it. Graffiti is a whole wall or imagination, hopes, dreams, emotions thats are being expressed right before your very eyes. It is someone leaving their mark weather its as simple as someone signing their name or writing a quote. Maybe its someone painting a giant mural on a wall. Whatever it is, it is amazing. So instead of hating on the graffiti art around you or maybe just glancing at it as you walk by. Look closer. You never know what beauty you might see or something might spark your interest.

Water is Alive

Everything is alive, but more so water is alive. Water has emotion. It can feel things. If its mad it can drown you in its great abyss, when its excited it will sway back and forth making ripples on the surface. or when its happy it can be as smooth as butter. Its also a shelter to many live things as well so it comes full circle in its own way. Growing up in the middle of San Antonio, the only water I was exposed to was a pool and the occasional river float. The friend group that I somehow found myself being captured into all had one thing in common, they were people of the water. Yes, that sounds like a really dramatic sentence, but seriously, if reincarnation is a thing they all would come back as fish for sure or some type of aquatic animal. I never understood why these people were so obsessed with water and when ever I would ask they would just say "you have to feel it to know it!"

Honestly, I kind of thought they were crazy when they all kept telling me that. Until they physically put me in their shoes and took me out on a lake for the first time. Being on a lake with the wind in my hair and the water at my finger tips was incredible. Jumping into the water for the first time, it swallowed me whole and then opened its mouth to give me the privilege of coming up for air. Once I got in, I never wanted to get out. There is this feeling that you get when you feel the emotions of life around you in the water that is so hard to explain. You won't truly understand it though until you experience it for yourself.