I have a confession to make… I am not who you think I am. How I look on the outside is not a reflection of what I look like on the inside. Social media only portrays the favorable views that we want other people to see—the places I have been, the good times I have […]
Sometimes when you wish for something hard enough it actually happens—and it’s nothing like you had anticipated. You’re left speechless and try to figure out where everything went wrong. Why was the situation nothing like you expected? What had happened? How had everything spiraled out of control? There are many instances in my life when I
Life gets really hard sometimes. There will be days when you do not want to get out of bed. There will be days when you physically cannot get out of bed. We have all experienced days like these and when enough of these days string together we start saying and feeling like we are “in
The worst day of my life happened on June 20th, 2015—Father’s Day. It started like any good nightmare should, with me being violently woken in my own bed, my mother having just crashed into my room. Tears were streaming down her face. “IT’S DAD, STEVE. HE’S NOT BREATHING! YOU NEED TO DO SOMETHING!” she screamed.
My friends often tell me that I’m one of the strongest people that they have ever met. To survive the past year that I’ve had certainly took some strength, but in my eyes, it took the help of my family and friends much more so than any internal drive that I have within myself. I