Allison's Thoughts on Things

I cannot express how much anxiety I had going into one of my final semesters of my college career.  Over the summer, everyone kept reminding me that the real world is right around the corner and that I either needed to get ready for a real job or to not stop school and to get a MBA. No matter what people told me, I freaked out at each thought. For me, school has not always been my forte. The first time my dad told me to get my MBA once I graduate, I thought he was joking. Don’t get me wrong, I love learning but after spending 17 years in school I could not begin to imagine what 2-3 more would be like after this year. That is when I started thinking I would get a job right after I graduate in the spring. I would not have to go to school anymore and could get a start in the big girl world with my new big girl job. Once I started thinking about my potential big girl job is when I started thinking maybe I should stay in school to get my MBA (the safe way out). I didn’t know what...

Hello Friends, I know it has been awhile since I last posted but I feel it is now time for me to really keep up with this blog. I am finally in a good place again personally and already have some really good ideas for blog posts. Hopefully someone will read these one day! Till next time, Allie

Sometimes it is hard to find time to keep up with everything you put your mind to. When I started this blog, I was at a point in my life where I thought nothing was going go right. Many things were uncertain and now I am able to say that things are turning out for the better. It's always hard to keep a smile on your face and continue your everyday lives, but once you figure out how to do that, everything seems to go up from there. The reason that I was able to get out of my slump was for the group of friends that I surrounded myself with. For the most part, they are all relatively new in my life but now I feel like I have known them forever. They have been my support systems these past few months and I wouldn't know where I would be without them. Sometimes, people forget that others are human. It's easy to get caught up in the stress of life, and it's even more easy to take it out on other people. If I have learned one thing this semester it definitely would be listen...

Sometimes people come into your life for the good and the bad. It’s hard to tell a difference sometimes because you can get caught up in it but sometimes you need to take a step back and realize if this relationship is good for you. Well this happened to me recently and I can’t keep letting myself fall for these silly traps. They will promise you everything and the world if they could just to please themselves at the moment. It can be a friend that is the same sex or different, one that you’ve known forever or one you just met but what the most important thing to remember is that you need to be yourself throughout the entire friendship and if that means you need to end it than do it. Yes it sucks to have to do that but you can’t allow the drama and stress in that friendship cause more troubles to your life. What hurts the most is that you feel like everything is falling into their perfect pieces but then all of the sudden the pieces don’t fit anymore. Life sends way too many signals ...

Recently my life has been so busy and the only thing that I can think of is how many adult things I have been doing. I’ve been waking up around 7ish each morning to take my brother to school, then I might go back to bed for a little while or I get ready to start my day. I have been finding myself turning on Good Morning America and watching Kelly and Michael once that is over. I’ll go run some errands or I’ll do my best to tidy up the house for my mom. After that I most likely go pick up my brother or go to work.  Not everyday is the same but a lot of them are and it makes me think about what it will be like for me once I am grown up and have a real house and a real job. I don’t know what I want to do yet nor do I know where I want to be. I want to be happy with my life, with someone who encourages me to be my best. One of the things that I have done this week is something some might think is weird and others might think normal but I took my first flight by myself, without any...

It’s finally 2016! I can’t believe how time is flying by and when I think back on everything I’ve done and accomplished it’s crazy. It seems like yesterday I was sitting in my first grade classroom talking to this girl who I thought was annoying but turned out to my best friend a year later and still to this day. Thinking back on everything has made me realize how special life is and how you can’t take it for granted. I would consider myself very lucky because I have a strong family who depends on each other, I have an amazing group of friends that I can’t imagine ever leaving, and I have a solid job that will get me through college. Even though I have gone through some dark times, and currently getting out of one, I can’t consider my life horrible because of all the amazing opportunities that have been brought to it. All the good things outweigh the bad ones. Sometimes its hard to think that you will get out of a dark time but trust me when I say that there is always light at the end...