In the arms of an angel, may you find some comfort here.

This Sunday, one of my best friends from home, Ali Adelmann passed away. She suffered from a traumatic brain injury from a car accident last September. She fought for over one year and five months and I honestly thought that a miracle would come through for her. She was an absolute angel, and after reading this prayer, I realized yeah, she was an angel and she belongs with other angels, where she is now. I don't know why it is that bad things always happen to the best of people, but I know that if Ali could express her thoughts to us or anyone dealing with the pain and sorrow of losing a loved one.. this is what she would say.

if you loved me,

love each other

if you loved me,

please be kind

if you loved me,

take my place now

fill the place I've left behind

you all know that you are special

you all know that you filled my heart

when you love

all those that I loved,

we never really part

if I made a difference,

made your world

a warmer place

wrap your arms around each other

love's a gift too dear to waste

there is no greater honor

no greater prayer for me

than ties which can't be broken

among my family.

RIP Ali, You will be forever missed.

My Social Media Obsession

I think I'm with the rest of the world on this one (or at least the 600 million people who are Facebook users) that social media is awesome. Many people don't realize how cool it is the way that it connects us, but it has taken over faster than any other platform. Groupon, now estimated to be worth 6 billion dollars is taking OVER the future of e-commerce and still growing by the minute.

Social media is just merely another tool made for humans to connect and share with people all over the world. Sometimes it's weird and overly intrusive...especially Twitter...and I don't think that it is the problem of social media, but rather the weirdos that think it's necessary to tweet out every thought they ever had out into the twitter universe.

There are still some people though (eh-hem...my boyfriend) that just don't get it. Spend some time reading the facts, quotes, opinions and  thoughts of Techcrunch, a blog dedicated to the technology of social media, and maybe you'll get it. I love this stuff, and I'll probably reference more to the blog in the future, but you should definitely check it out if you haven't already. My love for social media only keeps growing, the more I learn about it, and I only hope that I get to work with it in the future.

Choices

Every person, all the events of your life are drawn there because you have them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you. -Richard Bach

These past 5 snow days have seriously gotten the best of me and and my blog, but most importantly on updating you on one of my last posts. I love this quote because I really struggled on deciding whether or not I would accept my invitation to join Teach for America.  I think that when you are forced to make a big decision that could potentially influence the rest of your future, you have to base your decision off what you're feeling at that moment, and what you're mind and body are saying to you. After a good week of peaking into the lives of TFA alums and current core members (many of whom work in the bay area), i realized teaching might not be what I'm cut out to do.


Talking with everyone and hearing their stories made it even harder for me to say no to Teach for America because it would have been the most empowering, rewarding experience. However, I decided that for me, right now I need to focus on my career, rather than commit to two years of teaching. My biggest concern was being assigned to teaching high school Spanish. I wanted to join TFA because I wanted to work with children and kids...14-19 year olds are not children--and for any of you that have heard me speak spanish-my accent, well, it isn't the best. I just would hate to get myself into a place of frustration, when that job needs to be 125% positivity and direction all the way through. With these other thoughts, I also figured that at the age of 21,there must be so much more for me to explore, discover and figure out about myself and what I want to build my career and future into. 


I know this sounds selfish when I was one of the many chosen to try and help these kids and work to close this terrible education gap in America, but I think that it's okay for me to be a little selfish right now-especially in a time where I am still trying to figure out what it is I want to do. Everyone, every place and every event in my life will still be there...they're just still waiting for me to discover them.