Getting Through

I read somewhere that your problems will never go away until it teaches you what you need to learn. Whoever said that has a point. It should be so simple. But it's not really. It's not like you can just say, "Okay, God, I get it now! You can make this go away now." 
But it doesn't work that way, I think. For me, it's something that I really can't figure out. I do think that we are supposed to learn something from every experience that we have. But if a similar thing is repeatedly happening, I think that it might be a deeper issue that you can't just figure out when you want the problem to go away. I think sometimes it's such a big thing you need to realize that it takes God giving you a lot of similar experiences to learn from. Each time it happens, you learn a tiny bit of something new. Every new struggle builds off the past ones, and every new little tip you learn builds off of the old ones. Eventually, I believe that you have been through so much and learn enough little things that they can combine into one big realization. 
And then you're ready for that struggle to turn into something good. 
It makes me think of an obstacle course...like in the army. The ones where you have to start over if you fall down or mess up. You trip over the same thing enough times that each time you start over you learn a new way that doesn't work. And then finally you have figured out all the ways that DON'T work and you can finally get through it. And then it's on to the next obstacle. 
I think life is a series of things like this. Everyone's struggling with something at some point, but we all learn how to get through it. Just because we're all fighting our own battles does not mean we can't enjoy life. I think that's the best way to help get through it all...to focus on our blessings and do what makes us happy and see the great things that surround us.
At least I know that's what helps get me through the rough patches.
So there's my deep rant for the day. :) 
Hope everyone has a great week and has tons of happiness today! 
The end <3 :)

Caramel Tea and Pink Nails

How can I ever be worried with so many back up plans?!

Plan A: Graduate college with an Elementary Education degree so I can become a teacher somewhere in this state.

Plan B: Go to beauty school and become a beautician.

Plan C: Write a New York Times Best Selling Novel.

Plan D: Post videos of me singing and guitaring to my songs on youtube and get discovered by Justin Bieber.

Plan E: Start a cupcake business called HappyCakes.

Plan F: Gain 278 pounds, go on the biggest loser, lose it all, and then become a motivational speaker/personal trainer for future biggest loser contestants.

Plan G: Buy Rosetta Stone for French, learn it, go to France, and make a name for myself there as a ballerina.

Plan H: Befriend Katie Couric's daughter. Then once Katie gets to know me she will see how charismatic and lovely I am and then refer me to Good Morning America, where I will become a regular news anchor.

Plan I: Change my major to engineering. Get a beautiful engineering major with ambition to fall in love with me. Once he has proposed, I will drop out of school. I will be a stay at home crafting, baking, dancing, mom while he makes $500,000 a year. 

Plan J: Build the world's largest water slide. Paint it pink and sparkly. 

Plan K: Genetically engineer a breed of horses to become unicorns. Open a unicorn amusement park where unicorns roam free and give people rides to any place that is happy. 

Plan L: Teach a dolphin to talk. Bring him to SeaWorld.

Plan M: Discover a new species.

Plan N: Find Atlantis.

Plan O: Try out for American Idol.

Plan P: Get a job being Sleeping Beauty for Disneyland.

Plan Q: Learn to quilt from Brooke. Quilt the world's largest quilt. Then hold the world's largest cuddle party with hot chocolate, marshmallows, Christmas movies, and the big quilt.

Plan R: Solve the Da Vinci code.

Plan S: Be the girl to finally tie down John Mayer.

Plan T: Finally get my dad to write his autobiography and be his editor and publisher...that way when it sells a zillion copies I will get some of the cut and be able to live comfortably until I need to move on to the next plan.

Plan U: Create an app that you can google a personal thing...such as "Where did I leave that checkbook?" or "How hard do I really need to study for this test?".

Plan V: Get hired on as a celebrity's entertainer. Live with them, and whenever they are bored I have to make them unbored by taking them shopping, dancing, cooking, or just telling them stories I made up.

Plan W: Get MTV to come videotape my life and make it into a reality show. It will be called "Sparky in the Valley."

Plan X: Move back in with Brooke and Jeremy. Learn German. Become the neighborhood housekeeper named Valencia.

Plan Y: Locate 8 large refrigerator boxes. Move to Miami. Create a home with the boxes. Collect 7 cats, 2 pigeons, and a squirrel. Live there in peace forever.

Plan Z: Back to plan A I guess?