Soooooooo Close

So here I am less than three months from my 38th birthday and about to graduate from college with a B.S. in Communications.

This is where I should have been 15 years ago. I will walk across the stage and be handed a paper representing the degree that I have earned 20 years after I should have walked across the stage at my high school and received a paper representing my high school diploma.

It's funny how we change through our lives!
In high school I refused to care, now I refuse not to. In high school the most important thing to me was being my own person, now without trying I am. In high school I didn't care about the world, now I am on a mission to change it.
It's funny how we change through our lives!

I have come such a long distance and am very proud of what I have accomplished and what I endured to get here.
I will never forget that road I traveled to get here. It had several pot holes, road blocks, everlasting stop lights, icy patches, enormous boulders and occasionally smooth surface. It built an enduring strength in me that can not and will not be taken or diminished by any thing or one.

I often wish my Dad were here to see that I made it! I overcame it all and I am a strong, happy, healthy, inspired, persistent, strong headed woman! I can and will change some piece of the world! He never gave up on me, no matter what, he always believed in me, even when I didn't believe in myself. Even when I didn't make it easy for anyone to believe in me. I know my Dad is up in heaven, laughing saying "I told you so!" He loved to tell people "I told you so!"

I for the first time in my life have hope, true hope and love real, lasting love. His name is Brad and without him my life would only be half what it was meant to be, because he is my other half. When I received my AA degree in 2006 I was really upset that no one in my family was there to see me graduate, except my beautiful daughter Ursula. But when I walk the stage this time the only ones I need there will be him and Urs. I got my AA to prove myself to others I am getting my BS to prove myself to me, this means A LOT more!

Thanks for tuning in, dropping by and reading the babbling of a girl!