Five
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People use big events that occur in their lives as a way to measure how quickly years pass without drawing attention to their own age. For example, adults will use when they graduated from college. Others will use the days they were married or when their children were born. Not being able to use any of those events yet, I still relly on something else until one of others takes place.
Today marks the 5th year of having returned from my mission in Uruguay. I can’t say things have turned out even remotely close to how I imagined they would have, but it’s okay. I’m happy and I’m doing the best I know how. A few months ago, I decided to stop comparing myself and my accomplishments to others around me. Life is not a competition against one another, but against who you were yesterday. All it takes is to try to be better than you were the day before and not get too upset when that doesn’t happen all the time.
Here’s hoping that the next five years turn out as well as the past five have.
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8:36 am on December 23rd, 2009
It’s been a while since I’ve looked at anyone’s blog, so sorry for all the comments all at once. Has it already been 5 years! Man does time fly. I remember the day you came home, and watched you walk into your parent’s home and just lay on the carpet and exclaimed how blessed we truly are. I have tried to remember that when times get tough or money is tight, we still are blessed with so much.