Sophomore Year Reflection (2012-2013)
A year ago, I wouldn't believe you if you told me what I'm about to write. Although it still brings tears to my eyes as I type this, I lost my dad. November 8, 2012 will forever be a date burned into my memory for heartbreaking reasons. I still think it was just a nightmare that I never woke up from. A terrible disease took one of the most influential people I knew away from me, and I'm not sure if this pain will ever cease to exist. I miss him more and more as each day passes.
I wrote the following in a Facebook post this past Thanksgiving:
I've never been more thankful for anything like I am this year. My brother Chris and I could not have been granted better parents. We were blessed to know one of the greatest men who ever lived as our dad. I will cherish my many memories of him that I and my family will hold dear in our hearts forever. The twenty years that I had with him passed too quickly, but he always told me, "If you're going to do something, do it right." He did being a dad right and touched the lives of many. I'm going to miss his jokes, lectures, and physical presence, but I now have the best guardian angel watching over me and dancing me through life. I love you dad. Not a single day will pass that I won't revisit my memories of you and hold you close in my heart. I'm the luckiest girl on Earth to have had you, even though our time together was cut short.
"Better is one day in your arms than thousands elsewhere."
I like to think that I knew my dad better than anyone else. He was my other half. I inherited my pointy nose, my stubbornness, and my competitive nature from him. I am grateful for the values he instilled in me as a woman, and I can thank him for my severe motivation to be successful in all of my endeavors. The only thing that I truly wanted to accomplish this year at school was to earn a GPA worthy of admittance into the College of Nursing. I am happy to say that my 3.708 has given me a piece of mind in KNOWING that I will receive my official letter of acceptance the first week of June! All of my hard work this year has definitely paid off and I know my dad will be smiling down on me as I ferociously rip open that envelope.
I wrote the following in a Facebook post this past Thanksgiving:
I've never been more thankful for anything like I am this year. My brother Chris and I could not have been granted better parents. We were blessed to know one of the greatest men who ever lived as our dad. I will cherish my many memories of him that I and my family will hold dear in our hearts forever. The twenty years that I had with him passed too quickly, but he always told me, "If you're going to do something, do it right." He did being a dad right and touched the lives of many. I'm going to miss his jokes, lectures, and physical presence, but I now have the best guardian angel watching over me and dancing me through life. I love you dad. Not a single day will pass that I won't revisit my memories of you and hold you close in my heart. I'm the luckiest girl on Earth to have had you, even though our time together was cut short.
"Better is one day in your arms than thousands elsewhere."
I like to think that I knew my dad better than anyone else. He was my other half. I inherited my pointy nose, my stubbornness, and my competitive nature from him. I am grateful for the values he instilled in me as a woman, and I can thank him for my severe motivation to be successful in all of my endeavors. The only thing that I truly wanted to accomplish this year at school was to earn a GPA worthy of admittance into the College of Nursing. I am happy to say that my 3.708 has given me a piece of mind in KNOWING that I will receive my official letter of acceptance the first week of June! All of my hard work this year has definitely paid off and I know my dad will be smiling down on me as I ferociously rip open that envelope.