Happiness

I need to go home.  Enough.  Exhausted physically, mentally, and especially emotionally.  Time to conquer my fears and take control of my life instead of it controlling me.  Happiness is my decision and completely obtainable.  I just have to seek it for myself!  It's Senior year, it's my turn to make my life the way I want it.

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

- E. B. White

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

- Louis D. Brandeis

As I go through all kinds of feelings and experiences in my journey through life -- delight, surprise, chagrin, dismay -- I hold this question as a guiding light: "What do I really need right now to be happy?" What I come to over and over again is that only qualities as vast and deep as love, connection and kindness will really make me happy in any sort of enduring way.

- Sharon Salzberg

What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.

- Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn't matter if the room has been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years -- we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on.

- Sharon Salzberg

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

- Barbara de Angelis

Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health.

- Julia Child

Get a grip! Now hold on tight...

Officially lost it.  I need a breather.  Puerto Rico winter break, where are you?!

Grad School? Check!

Well, my backup plan is set!  Last week I was officially accepted to the Virginia Tech Biomedical and Veterinary Science Graduate Program.  So if I don't get into vet school this year, grad school is a go!  Woohooo.  I'm still keeping my fingers crossed though ;)

"Keep calm and carry on"

A tad overwhelmed

Gahhhh!  Feeling smothered!  Need some room to breathe.  I feel like the walls academically and socially are closing in on me.  I need to bust free of all of this or I'm gonna lose it.

Asap.

"All I want is peace, love, and a chocolate bar bigger than my head"

What now?

I say that like it's an honest question... but when I hold my to do list up it reads all the way to the floor.  I'm just in this weird slump now that my vet school application is in.  I feel like I was SO focused on it for so long it's hard to get back in the swing of things!  Next project.  Applying to Grad School.  Yikes.  I need to really get that application completed by the first week of November as well.  WOOOO.  Nothing like a nice long breather eh? ; )

Off to go battle with Verizon to fix my Internet bill and study some Parasitology.  Typical life of a college student.

Keep calm and carry on.

Dramatic

Why do some people have to take something that doesn't have to be that big of a deal and make it the end of the world?  I'll never understand it.  The worst part is I feel like they're hurting themselves more then anything.  It's sad...  I'm working on being a better person myself now to avoid these types of situations all together.

"single doesn't mean I'm looking for somebody"

But it's funny the support you can find in some old relationships.  Time heals all and somethings I think even reveal fresh starts.

AHHHH!

I did it!  It's finally finished.  My VMRCVM supplemental is submitted and I finally hit submit this morning for VMCAS.  Too crazy and so exciting.  Now I just sit here and pray for awhile.