Almost Done!!

Ah the time has finally come! The stress is high, the assignments are pilling up and the prayers for good grades has begun! Can you guess?! Yup, its the end of the semester and it is so close to being over but it is also so far away. So I guess what I have to look forward to is, two weeks of sleepless nights and two weeks of chaos but hey thats what makes life fun right?! I like to try and be spontaneous in life so I've decided that the week before school starts I'm going to just pick a place on the East coast and just go. I'm not going to make any plans or reservations I'm just going to go and see where life leads me :). So I don't know if you guys have heard it yet but I'm sitting here listening to Darius Rucker's new song "This" and the chorus is,


Every stoplight I didn't make 
Every chance I did or I didn't take
All the nights I went too far
All the girls that broke my heart
All the doors that I had to close
All the things I knew but I didn't know
Thank God for all I missed
Cause it led me here to this

Isn't it funny how each and everyday there are things that might make us frustrated, whether it's missing that red light when were already late for class or when something happens in life that we can't comprehend at the time but when we look back we see that had that thing not happen then we may never have met that special person or gotten that particular opportunity? We are so so focused sometimes on the things that happen to us that we feel are bad or unfair that we may never see the bigger picture because as the lyrics say, "Thank God for all I missed, Cause it led me here to this."Sometimes in life we are so busy seeing all that is wrong that we at times have trouble seeing all thats right.

Caught Up In Life

Yesterday was Thanksgiving and I could write a book on how many things I have to be thankful for and I thank God every night for everything I've been blessed with in life but yesterday as I was sitting there, listening to some music I began to think about my life and where I'm going in life. The moment that changed my life was not the car accident I was in or being told I'd never walk again, the moment that changed everything for me was when I woke up two days after the accident and the doctor walked in and told me something that changed everything, he told me that I should have been killed. Its hard to explain how I felt in that moment but it was like the world stopped, it was as if life would never again be measured by a grade on a paper or by the score of a Sunday football game. For me that was the moment that changed how I looked at everything in life. It may sound cliche but when I drive down to the most secluded spot I can find and I watch the sunset fall over the bay, it is the most powerful feeling ever. When I get to hug my niece and hear about what she did in school that week I'm not just listening, I'm appreciating that moment I get to spend with her.

We get so caught up in just trying to get through the things we think are trivial in life that we lose the perspective on what it means to live. I am thankful everyday that I get to be stressed out about a paper that's due or if I am sitting in traffic I'm not angry or frustrated because those are the things that I am so thankful I get to do. I don't want to come off as saying I'm somehow perfect or that I don't ever get frustrated or angry because I do, I'm human, what I try to remember is that life is more than the milestones in life, it's about how we get there.

I lay in bed every morning wondering what opportunities I will have that day or what challenges I will get to face and everyday I repeat what that doctor told me four years ago because I am so thankful he didn't have to tell my parents that night that I was killed.

Life for me is going to be defined by things that may appear trivial to some but will mean the world to me. I can't wait for the chance to kiss my wife and kids goodbye every morning or to call my fiance just to say hi. I can't wait play catch with my son and play house with my daughter. What I want out of life is not money or fame but is the things that people should value most but get too caught up in life to remember.

I hope everyone had an amazing Thanksgiving and will have a great Holiday season and please try and take some time to treasure all the things in life that truly matter before you never get the chance to.

God Bless

FREE MONEY GIVEAWAY!!

haha so no I'm not giving away any money but I just wanted to throw a catchy title out there to see if people actually read the blog or I am just talking to myself on the internet lol Well I guess talking out loud to myself online is better than if I were doing it in public, they'd probably send me somewhere to get help hah...well I dont have much else to say this weekend, I went to an amazing fundraiser party for University of Maryland Shock Trauma  and I met some very awesome people with so many connections in the state of Maryland! anddd I was invited to Cal Ripken's gala in Baltimore in February!!! Don't get me wrong having  a spinal cord injury blows and I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy but the people I've met and the opportunities I've been given and hopefully will get are unbelievable :)

It's funny how life puts you exactly where you should be

Directions

I've spent the last four years trying to look at my life and see whats next. I've been so busy with school and therapy that I've forgotten what's important in life. I think it's only natural to always want to know our future but isn't that what living is for? I've also been thinking (and this may seem kinda odd coming from a guy but), its funny when you meet that one person in life that has an effect on you like no one before. The moment I saw her it was kinda like everything made sense. It's kind of hard to explain but no matter who else I meet all I can think about is her. I don't want to sound like a creeper or stalker or even an overdone obsession haha but its so hard to explain this feeling. Some people may think I'm crazy for this or delusional for thinking something like this but to all those people all I can say is that I've truly never felt like this for someone and the feeling I got when I first saw her was, indescribable. Well many people may think I'm crazy or just, whatever you want to call it, I really don't think I am lol.

I know I haven't blogged lately but I've just been so busy with the end of the semester coming up and judging by the D I got on my last test I got back today, I've got a lot of work to do! I promise to keep up with the blog more often and I will try and get my act together for school!











You meet thousands of people & then you meet one person & your life is changed..forever :)