"You can't let fear keep you from your dreams, we can get through this!" - Chelsea Thomas

The above statement really got me thinking... Why do humans doubt what they know they can do. I mean you could be getting an opportunity that not many others have and that you have been striving for all your life, but you still question yourself, "What if I go and fail?", "What if I hate it there?" These are the questions that keep amazing people from accomplishing amazing things. If they would just follow their hearts and not worry about what could happen and just go with the flow, we could accomplish so much more!
I have a few examples of this.

1. As most of you know I have been really wanting to go to Franciscan University in Steubenville Ohio. Well, money is really the only thing that is keeping me there and my family and I are doing everything we can to get enough money to send me there. Well I keep thinking about all of the sacrifices my family is making to try and send me there and it really makes me question my decision. "What if I get there and fail?" or "What if I hate Ohio?" and it is making me second guess my dreams in order to please others, and that is not the kind of person I am. I mean I feel bad that my parents have to give stuff up for me to accomplish my dreams, but they can really see that this is what I want to do and they are willing to do that for me and I think it is awesome.
2. When we were getting ready to go on our Disneyland trip for choir and I still owed over $300 two weeks before the trip. "I'm not going to get the money." Is the only thought that was going through my mind. And right when I was about to give up, people, out of the kindness of their hearts, donated the money to me and it all worked out in the end.
I'm going to venture off that topic for a little while. But, don't you love when your friends say these profound statements? As soon as Chelsea said this I told her that I was putting it as my facebook status, I didn't mention that it would be the basis for my blog. I think that these statements can inspire people to look at not only themselves but others in a whole new way.
Thank you all for reading my blog. I hope that I actually say something meaningful to at least one of you!