10 things I learned in 2008

A friend of mine recently wrote a note about the importance of what we learn each year. She read an article about how each New Year, you should consider ten important things you learned and how they affected your life. These are my ten things I learned in 2008.

1. It's okay to have different friends for different parts of your life. For a few years now my two best friends in the world have been Diana and Sara. If you were to meet both of them you wouldn't understand why because they are two totally different people. For the longest time I thought I should chose between one lifestyle or the other, but then I realized that it wouldn't be true to myself. I love both of these girls with my whole heart and I enjoy doing different things with them why should that change?
2. It's okay to not be okay. I've been very depressed since my parents split up. I've always just thought there was something wrong with me, but I started going to counseling this past year, and I've realized theres nothing wrong with me; everyone has there problems and everyone gets depressed, but it's those who rise above the depression t keep living who will make it through okay.
3. Those who love you, don't judge you. I didn't graduate highschool. I was so afraid that everyone would look down on me and judge me. I felt so horrible already that I thought if they did that I'd just die, so for the longest time I avoided talking about it, and I still do to a degree, but I'm slowly learning that people don't really care, as long as I finished my GED requirements.
4. Politicians have their "moments" as well as everyone else. With the election this last year, the politicians were all over the tv and papers and tabloids and magazines and everything else for that matter. You got up close and personal with each one of them, and during this process you'd see the politicians making mistakes, and screwing up, which we all already know they do, but this time it was all in your face everytime they did anything wrong, becasue thats how the other party thought they could get your vote. The point I'm trying to make is that no matter how high up the food chain you are you aren't perfect and some times even public figures need a break.
5. Not everything is how it seems. This past year I had a boyfriend for the first time in four years. I thought it was perfect. I thought everything was going well, and I was covered in a veil of bliss. Now that I look back on it I realize it really wasnt that great. Well when he broke up with me he told me he didn't really like me and all that other stuff, but I was blinded to that fact, which I probably would have noticed if I wasn't so perfectly happy with everything.
6. Sometimes the people who are the most deceiving are the people you want to believe the most.
7. Remember to breathe.
8. Not everyone will follow you, even if you are right.
9. My church family is more amazing than I could ever have imagined.
10. Sometimes, things change and there's nothing you can do about it.