The Perfect Day

I can say, with much confidence that yesterday was the perfect day.

Yesterday, Friday, November 13, 2009, I received my Fighting Texas Aggie Ring. I have been waiting four years for this day. And it could not have been any more perfect.

My parents and grandparents drove down from Dallas as well as my second parents, my best friend, and two other really close families to my family. I had eleven people drive in from Dallas to celebrate this day with me. It was really special.

My dad gave me my ring. It was so awesome for me to have my dad give me my ring. I think he thought it was special, too.

And then after I got my ring and took so many pictures, we had a party at the church with more friends and family to continue the celebration. I haven't smiled that much and like that in a very long time. It was so good to be surrounded by so many wonderful people celebrating me getting my Aggie ring.

For those Non-Ags, let me fill you in. Getting your Aggie Ring is a huge deal down here. Every Aggie Ring is the same as the very first ones that were given way back when. Every Aggie wears their ring and it connects what we like to call "THE AGGIE NETWORK". Everything on the ring has symbolic meaning.

If you are at all curious about this Aggie Ring and everything it means and holds... check out this website http://www.aggienetwork.com/ring/.

Anyway, yesterday was fantastic! I still cannot stop smiling!! This is definitely what I needed to keep me going through the rest of the semester.

It was here that our lives were forever changed, and loyalty to one another and to a cause greater than self filled our hearts.
--Phillip D. Adams, Class of 1970

Thank you to everyone that helped me get to this day and to my friends and family who were here to celebrate it with me. Love you all! Gig'em & God Bless!

Truth

Sometimes I wonder if anything's absolute anymore. Is there still right and wrong? Good and bad? Truth and lies? Or is everything negotiable, left to interpretation, gray. Sometimes we're forced to bend the truth, transform it, cause we're faced with things that are not of our own making. And sometimes things simply catch up to us.

Today the truth came to me. I'm not really sure what to think of it now or what to do now. I guess I'm just trying to figure everything out still. It still hurts and I'm kinda worried about what dreams may come over the next few days and weeks because of this.

Truth is still absolute. Believe that. Even when that truth is hard and cold, and more painful than you've ever imagined. And even when truth is more cruel than any lie.

Life is pretty crazy when you think that sometimes it would have been better to be kept in the dark.. to just be able to believe the lies and go on believe that everything was real. That everything was true. That the feelings were mutual. But life doesn't really work that way. There aren't always happy endings and people don't always turn out to be the person you thought they were. The person they said they were.

And this time the truth was much more cruel than any lie you could have ever told me. But it's the truth. And I wanted to know it. And I got my answers. And now part of me wishes I could just go back and live in the lie. It was easier that way. I never asked for this. But here I am... back several steps and far from the place that I want to be.

Unless your heart, your soul, and your whole being are behind every decision you make, the words from your mouth will be empty, and each action will be meaningless. Truth and confidence are the roots of happiness.