a quicky

I'd like to assume that I'm a nice person. I'm very of the mentality of "be loyal to me and I'll be loyal to you". I'm proud of the fact that, except for a few slip-ups that I'm not particularly proud of but have accepted, I have carried that mentality with me for years.

I'm usually the person that does a lot for people and has little to show for it; I take after my mother dearly in that sense. I'm willing to walk a mile for you even if you'll only take a few steps for me. It's just how I am.

I can be a raging bitch too, don't get me wrong, but sometimes you have to put your guard up and that's how I do it.

Finding God has a lot to do with my appeal for loving those who love me. I'm eternally grateful for the things He has blessed me with in life. Especially the little things.

I love the little things in life; those things we constantly assume are just things we deserve in life. They really are my favorite.

About half an hour ago, I got a message on Facebook from someone I didn't know. Any activity on my Facebook automatically gets forwarded to my email so I'm not constantly logged into my account, but so I know if anything important needs to be addressed. I had just finished the latest episode of The Office (I'm all caught up now! Woo!) and saw I had something in my inbox. It was a message from someone I didn't know about my flash drive. They said they had found it in the Ragsdale computer lab and they wanted to return it to me.

I thought it was a joke at first. I didn't even remember leaving it in there. But as I thought about it, I was pretty sick that day and my flash drive was the last of my worries. I responded and it turns out they lived nearby and so he called me to ask where I was so he could deliver it to me. Can we just talk about how nice this person is already? Not only did they willingly decide to return my flash drive, but bringing it to my dorm? I don't even care about the possibility of the fact that he actually probably just stole all my essays and works on it, but he brought it back.

And that made an already good day even better.

We had a little conversation afterwards too. He was cute and wearing a burnt orange Keep Austin Weird t-shirt. Like I told my best friend Jeremy, it's pretty obvious we're going to fall in love and get married now.

I should be reading for a quiz tomorrow, but fuck it. I'm feeling so inspired.

Tonight in bible study, we read Mark and the story about the widow giving up everything for God. It helped me realize just how selfless my parents were, and are, this weekend. They came down to see me, got a suite at a hotel so we could hang out as if we were at home, bought me things I honestly don't need but simply wanted, and didn't even get mad at me when they should've been furious about me getting them lost in Austin.

I have an amazing life. I'm one of very few people in the world that gets a chance to attend a university and get a higher education. I have the world at my feet and it's their for the grabbing, all because my parents have sacrificed so much and because God has been so great and blessed me. It's so humbling.

Take this and do what you think this week: It costs nothing to be honest, loyal and true. And to pay it forward.

Thanks and Hook'em.