Changing Lives Part 2

So I wrote a blog a while back called changing lives and I am here again writing about people that have changed my life. As many of you all know I started to work at the Medical Alumni and Development office in September 2005, well I left that job February 2007 to focus on school. The funny things is I left on Feb 15th and on Feb 19th a great person started a job there. Before I even put my two week notice in my boss told me that I was going to love this new person that we would just perfectly mesh together and me being me was like whatever. Well I had heard great things about this person over the next several weeks. In May I struggled with the fact of asking to come back to a job that I loved...part of me wanted to, part didn't think I should, and part of me was scared that the new girl had taken my place and I no longer belonged there. As I sit here and type this I realize that the new girl is probably going to be reading this and I hope she knows that that thought was so long ago. Indeed I started back on May 7th just in time to work graduation brunch...which was also the start of a very great friendship. I had seen her in the office and had met her and had lunch with her a few times as a group with other co-workers but never really talked to her...just heard a lot about her and vice versa I believe. On May 11th while we were working on setting up for graduation brunch I remember her just started to laugh at me and told me she thought I was sneaky and was wondering why I was just laughing. That I just laughed all the time for no reason...I wasn't sure if I liked that at first...but I do have to say that probably was the start of this great friendship we have. She is someone I can really relate to...she's changed me in great ways. She has helped me relax and just laugh about things. She has taught me not to be too serious about what is going on in my life...that God has a reason for whatever it is he is putting me through. Her drive to live and her passion for life has changed me. She makes life fun...she makes the most random stupid things in life fun. My favorite experience with her is Reunion 2007...what a great weekend...we both wanted to kill everyone and anyone around us and it was great being able to have here there to calm me down and have her just make me laugh when in reality I wanted to choke someone. I haven't known her for long but I feel like I've known her for my whole entire life. I feel like I have no problems talking to her about anything and that she is always going to be there for me. She is one heck of a person that I am excited to continue to be friends with and get to know.
Someone that I just recently met that is a lot like the new girl...which makes sense since they are twins. I don't know her very well but what I know from her she seems like a great person. I hope that she can be someone that will one day change me as well.

Have you ever had someone in your life that has been there for a while but you never really thought much about them...I know that sounds mean but you didn't realize that that person or persons were going to change your life? For me I met this person in 2005 and at that time I wasn't really sure about the person. But I look back now and realize that this person has changed my life. She's really been there for me and she has taught me a lot...that things are going to suck at times but that you can't get down on yourself or on whats going on in your life. That things will be okay...we kind of opposites...but it works for us because when I am down she can bring me up and when she is down I can bring her up.

Do you ever think you get second chances with people? The first time I worked for the College of Medicine I met this wonderful lady, but didn't really become friends with her until my second time around. She now is one of the closest people to me. She really wants to see my succeed and she is really there to support me in whatever decision I want to make. She's a great Christian and she helps me with my struggles in finding my way. When I left in Feb she made me this box of inspirational quotes and I can't think her enought. It has helped me through some tought times. She is one of the most thoughtful people I know...she is always doing such nice things for me and constantly just blowing my mind away. She is a big part of my support system.
Over this past season I took at job at Macy's...and when I took it I was just looking for something to do in the daytime. I didn't know the job and the people would change me. They are a great bunch of people to work with...they had me smiling every single day I worked...even at 5 in the morning. It was very nice to have a different range of people all working together and having fun at times. I look at this job at Macy's as one of the best things I have ever done. It saved me from going insane sitting at home...but it gave me what I would like to call my second chance to achieve my dream.

I think I write blogs like these because I want people to know that you never know when someone is going to walk into your life and change it, or what decision you will make that will change it. For me my life has been changed most with the most unpredictable decisions I make or with the most random people I meet. But I love it. The person I am today is because of all these great people and because of all the bad and the good decision I made in my life. I hope that I continue to change because I am not ready to be the person I am right now for the rest of my life.