No Fear...

"The purpose of life is to live it. To taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience..."

-Elinor Roosevelt

I've made a decision. I've decided to stop waiting for opportunities to come my way, and go after them. I'm going to stop letting other people be such an influence on my life and my happiness. I've decided to stop being so damn hard on myself. I've decided to have more fun and stress less. So I guess I've made multiple decisions...

I don't want to be that old lady who looks back at her life and regrets not enjoying these years. I'm learning so much about myself each and every day. I'm writing my own story. I'm in control. I want to go out and experience life. I want to dance and sing, laugh till I cry, and cry till I laugh. I want to take a road trip. I want to finish school. I want to find a career that I love. Most of all, I just want to be happy. I want all of these things for myself, and I'm going to make them all happen!

I know that I have all the tools necessary. I'm a highly capable human being. I think I am finally past this idea that one day this life is simply going to lay all these things on my door step. I'm ready to go after it all. I'm through being afraid to live. 

For so long I have been terrified that if I actually put myself out there, or really went after something, I would fail. And because of that fear, I simply didn't try. What I never realized is that by not trying I was automatically failing anyway! How Stupid I was! But now here I go. All fear aside. I will take my insecurities and air them to the world. I'm done being afraid of life. I'm through trying to be perfect. I am who I am, and I know what I want out of this life and its time I start getting it.