them sparkles

I'm just going to leave this here. Worry about what is important. ❤

I had the absolute pleasure of spending the weekend in the mountains with some really amazing women. Before this weekend, they were my work friends. After this weekend, they are just simply my friends. We were brought together to celebrate the last few weeks of unmarried life for one of our girls before she flies across the ocean to marry her true love. I feel we learned more about each other than we all knew and we've grown a stronger bond with each other than we ever had. We shared a lot of laughs but we also shared some serious moments. We discussed some things that have been bothering me as of late and I realized that I wasn't the only one feeling this way. It was a huge relief. Before this weekend, I felt a little bit alone. Like I was possibly making more out of something that wasn't really a problem. But many of my concerns, were concerning to them and having people share similar feelings with you feels like they are helping carry the weight, it's not so heavy....

The other day, I was reminded of this quote by Will Smith (or so the internet tells me) and it has resonated with me since. In the last little while, I have had a harder time trying to stay positive because there seems to be so much negativity around me. You see it in the news, on social media and you hear about it through the mouths of the people you talk to daily. I've noticed that most of the negativity surrounding me personally is coming from people that are currently dealing with something upsetting in their lives. Whether it be that someone is ill in the family, they're having relationship issues or some other kind of unhappiness, these are the people that I'm noticing it from the most. I believe it's easier for us to distract ourselves with what is wrong in someone else's life than face what is bad or sad in our own life. It keeps us distracted. Perhaps why tabloids are so successful. In realizing this, I found my bit of sparkle. Both of my parents a...