Venture in the Adventure

Growing up seems to speed up daily.
Will it continue to go faster?

I love the childhood I was given and often reflect on how I wish I could go back to the carefree summer days of playing in the fields catching grasshoppers and snakes; building club houses; venturing into the unknown over the forbidden Sumption's gravel pit fences; overtaking the high gravel pit hills over at our grandpa's gravel pit; jumping on the trampoline until all my PowerRanger moves have been exhausted; creating chalk roads to rollerblade around on; swinging up into space and back; riding my bicycle all over (up hill both ways); and having my mom's freshly cut garden vegetables to eat all day long!!!

Change can be hard and even with the hope that things will stay the same
They quite frankly just don't!!
That's life!

So why do we fight against it so hard sometimes?

Every time I pull into our new driveway of our new home I can't help but have the hope that I'll walk in the door to the smell of homemade bread cooking, hear the steam of bottles on the stove getting bottled along with the tumbling of towels in the dryer drying, and see grandma in the kitchen sweeping the floor while humming a song that's only familiar and heard from her. I know it won't happen, but the sting happens every time.

Is this really "my" home? Why is there a for sale sign in front of the home I've lived in my whole life and that raised me? Why is it now empty?

Going on a mission I dealt with change every single day. Some changes happened and were more easily accepted than others, but I learned really quick that it couldn't be stopped and it was left to me to decide if I'd make it a positive or a negative change in my life. Let me tell ya -every single change can be positive!!! You just have to look for it!

All of the changes that have come about since returning home from my mission have been positive! Hard you ask? Some? YES!! Extremely! But what an amazing adventure it's been and it's brought me to where I am today which is where I feel like I couldn't be any happier! I wouldn't have one thing change from how it's changed!

While on the topic of change now I can't help but reflect on this past week of Salem Days too. Wow Oh Wow has the changes that were made this year to the usual traditions of the city's celebrations resulted with a whole lot of angry people. It's sad to see people fight so hard against a tried change. I will admit that when I first heard about the changes my heart instantly said "Noooo!" and I didn't want to hear the Why. But then I realized I needed to look for the positive of the changes and hear the reasoning to make a true opinion. Now after attending the different events of the week, hearing out the reasons, and seeing the finale of Saturday night, I can honestly say that the changes were positive and a great thing! It's not how it's always been, obviously, but then again every tradition that I expect to be the exact same each year somehow never is... and that's okay!!!

How would we ever discover new things without the experimentation? Most of the conveniences we have today are from someone trying something different. It's not always a positive result the first time and might take many different tries before it becomes the desired result... But we'd never know without the initial try!!!

Everyday truly always is and will be an exciting new adventure
Enjoy it!
And open up your mind without putting someone else down for doing it differently than you