Lessons Learned : A Personal Post

 I have been blogging mostly to just show my images on a bigger screen that what facebook can provide but I also wanted to make this a personal blog as well. I know I have some young people who follow me and my work and look to me for inspiration at times, and I feel completely blessed to be able to inspire others just as others have inspired me. A few weeks ago I met with a senior and had flashbacks of three years ago when I myself was a senior and not entirely sure what I wanted to do or where I wanted to be. I didn't care about grades, never tried for honor roll, filled my day up with study halls or sneaking away to be with my boyfriend at the time. I never let myself experience senior year like I should have. Of course because I am a girl I naturally blame it all on the guy I was with, he was in college, didn't know any of my friends, and at the time I was so intertwined into him that I never made my own path. I passed up on some great opportunities to get out of this town because of him. My biggest dream for as long as I could remember was and is to live next to the ocean, and by next to it I mean the sand would be my backyard and the ocean my playground. I was accepted to Art School in San Fran but declined because he didn't want me to move far away, therefore I settled for community college up the road, we broke up three months later. My second year of college, the year where you make the important choice of where you wanted to apply to transfer to finish your degree I met my now ex-fiance. I was originally planning on making the three hour trip to New York City and transfer to the Fashion Institute of Technology. The first week we were together and I told him that I was planning on moving to the city he told me that I had to pick right there at that moment him or the city, and stupidly I said him. I am thankful for where I am now, but I cant help but wonder where I would be if I had moved to the West Coast almost four years ago. So girls, please listen to your instincts and now is your time to be completely selfish and do what you want to do <3