At 24 years young I sometimes feel like I’ve
lived many lifetimes over.
As a little chick I went to 3 different primary
schools and 4 different high schools. I’ve had roughly 26 different jobs in the
past 10 years (none of which I was ever fired from!). I’ve flown on
approximately 320 aeroplanes (and no I’m not exaggerating). I’ve never broken a
bone and I may be the only adult I’ve met to have never had chicken pox. I’ve
abseiled down a mountain and jumped from a plane. I’ve lived in 16 (soon to be
17) different homes across two different states in Australia and two states in
America. I’ve had 3 cats, 2 dogs, 2 budgies, 2 mice and a rabbit called shadow.
My life is bursting at the seams of diversity with
a sprinkle of structure. Ask me a question and I’ll give you an answer. I don’t
know it all but I’ll give it a try. I easily get bored and predictability in
life is like nails down a chalkboard. It sucks.
But the cherry on top is that throughout all the changes and moves (and
I hope they continue to come) the one constant are the people. I have a life full of friends and family (and no, I’m not
talking about Facebook friends). I’m not one to walk by and forget you. I have
friends from kindergarten, all 3 primary schools, all 4 high schools and
university. I have friends from all my jobs and friends from my travels. On
average I will speak with approximately 15 people a day (no exaggeration),
sometimes I might forget to text you back but at least I remembered 11 today.
My friends are like diamonds, a girls never going to say no to more and I
certainly won’t lose them. When you’re in my life, you’re in my life and I will
never intentionally cross you.
I once read an article that said if you can
count your good friends on one hand you’re doing well. Well, I don’t have
enough hands- and that's truth. The people I have in my life are good people
and I know that for a fact. So what’s to distinguish the good from the bad? And
how do you weed out the good from the bad? I believe it’s a person’s word.
Because really, it’s all we have in the end- right? In a time that everyone has
a device attached to their hand and a status to post, the honour of the word
can at times be lost. In a world that continues to grow in volume and speed-
loyalty and honesty are the two that we must remember to keep.
Three
things that are not long hidden: the sun, the moon and the truth.
If you’re deceitful and incapable of being
truthful, then you’re a rock pretending to be a diamond in my life. It’s like
my favourite white dress. I will love it and care for it, being sure to keep it
clean and stain free. But if one day my coffee spills onto my dress, I’ll at first
be sad because I know that’s going to leave a nasty stain but I won’t
give up on it just yet. I’ll run to the laundry, rip the dress off and scrub
that stain. I’ll try everything I can to get that stain out. But forever the optimist, I’ll
let it dry and wear it again. I can see that stain in the
right corner, it’s not as dark and no one can really notice it so I'll keep wearing it, pretending it's not there. Then one day, as I’m looking in the mirror and thinking how
much that stain has faded, all of a sudden I turn around and see that someone
has thrown an entire pot of coffee down my back. I hadn’t even realised. I had
been so focused on the tiny stain that I hadn’t even felt
the burn from behind.
The dress is ruined now.
So instead, I’ll take it down
the street and give it to that girl who has been eyeing it off all along. She can
have it… white was never really my colour anyway.
“Watch your
thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your
actions; they become habit. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch
your character; it becomes your destiny.”
R xx
