I think it's pretty amazing the steps I've taken for my life within the past four months. It's turned around completely, and entirely for the better. I've had a lot of things happen to me over my short life, and I have learned many things. About life, about love, and pain. But I also learned many things about myself. That's what is beautiful about time. It shows us that people go, so do the things we think we need. Things change...but the one thing that you always have is yourself. This year is going to be about me. Yes, I have a boyfriend, and yes I have obligations...but I also have dreams. This is going to be the year that I take what I have been given in life, and turn it into the life that I have always dreamed about but never took the steps to achieve. Then, next year I will do the same thing. Because people do change, including me. I can't tell from one moment to the next what I am going to like, but I know what I like right now. I know the things that matter right now, and that is all that should be given my attention. Why should I waste my energy on something that brings me pain and hardship when it isn't necessary? That is the latest lesson I've learned. There is no point in it! I can't make other people be something that they aren't, and that is just fine. I'm okay without him in my life even though I thought I never would be. I found someone who is everything I ever could have asked for, and so much more. I've found friends who would go to the ends of the earth and back for me, and I would for them as well. I've got everything I need, and I will love and appreciate all of it every moment of every day.