How a White Girl Does Life

May 17th, 2017 Over the past few weeks since I have been home I have been thinking and realizing a lot about people and what color means in society today. I have had mixed reaction about race my whole life depending on the person and my family members. When Fluffy was a part of my life last year there was a mixed reaction from my grandmother because he was Hispanic. To me, he is no less of a person just because of his skin color. What does that matter? From that, I was really worried about what would happen if I brought home a black man? Would my whole family explode just because he is black? I brushed it off at first as no big deal because I never dreamed it would be something I would have to handle in my life. Enter Jagger. He is black. Never did I ever think anything differently about him just because he is black. I've had friends that have judged him and everything that happened between us just because of his color. For instance, my Athlete did not realize that he was...

May 7, 2017 So as the semester ended I fell off the face of the Earth with work, school and my own life but now I have time to breathe, think and write. Praise the Lord from whom all blessings flow!! As I sat in church today and I really started to think about a characteristic of mine. Growing up my whole life, my mother told me that I forgive too easily or I love too much. But what if me growing up has shown me that the love I have is Christ in me. Through all the heartache I have faced in my life from the people around me I still forgive and love. I did it for the longest time with my Gymnast until my heart hurt too much. I had to do what was best for me emotionally and mentally but causing someone else pain was almost unbearable. Yet, even when he picked his family over me time and time again I still loved him and stood by his side. Well fast forward to the past six months with Jagger and I could say the same thing. There was a lot of pain when he picked Lilja but I respecte...