Graduation!

I call this picture- "Poor attempt at a time lapse"

Anyway. I graduated from BYU a few weeks ago. It is a very bittersweet feeling. I love BYU and I am very grateful for the opportunity I had to attend such a wonderful university. 

So. Here are a couple of lists I made awhile ago. 

Things I learned at BYU

1-     How to love myself for who I am

2-     How to be alone

3-     That dreams are nothing without action

4-     Life is uncertain, and that’s okay

5-     Sometimes your heart aches, but that doesn't mean it always will

6-     Life is right now, not yesterday or tomorrow, but this moment

7-     Your life is what you do every day, in every moment

8-     Change is a necessary and wonderful part of life

9-     The ability to let go is a blessing

10- Love is an action, not some magical feeling

11- I can choose how my life turns out

12- There is no such thing as a soul mate, but there is one person I will end up with, and I get to choose that person

13- It is very easy to start a bad habit, and rather hard to let it go

14- Life changes very quickly, it rarely remains the same for long

15- Sometimes no matter how much you want something to work, it just doesn't

16- Life is unexpected, so don’t worry about what could be, just live

17- It’s okay to say goodbye to people

18- Life is beautiful

19- How to say I love you

20- How to show affection

21- I get to choose if I will do what God wants me to do, or what I want to do- but I need to pray to figure out what God really wants for me

22- Living is an action

23- Eating gummy worms will not make me feel better, ever

24- How to be vulnerable

Things I learned about myself at BYU

1-     If I had to choose between a meaningful conversation with a friend and an adventure, I’d choose the conversation. Unless the adventure was with my friends, in that case I would get both so it’d be a win win

2-     I would do (almost) anything for a friend

3-     I care deeply for people

4-     I still can’t seem to let go of the past, I live there frequently

5-     I don’t like change, it makes me sad.

6-     I have a lot of dreams that I don’t act on out of fear

7-     I have a lot of potential and the ability to impact peoples lives

8-     The only person I can truly save is myself

9-     I don’t like doing or folding laundry

10- I wear hats a lot

11- No matter how tired I am I can’t seem to go to sleep at night

12- I often let my emotions control my actions

13- I have faith in God

14- I know that the Book of Mormon is a true book and that the LDS church is God’s church

15- I like to preach to my friends

16- I feel empowered when I’m trying to empower others

17- Sometimes I don’t listen because I’m too busy trying to say what I want to say

18- I’m afraid of love, but that’s a fear I want to face

19- I’m not very good at playing the dating game

20- I love mountains

21- I love being around people and interacting with them

22- Apparently I like to write poems to get out my emotions

23- I’m not very good at consistently doing laundry

24- Stressing gets me nothing but a headache

25- Sometimes it snows and is cold and wet and my foot hurts, but the view is great and my heart can still be full of joy

So yep. I graduated.