Tragedy and Choices....Choices

So, life is tragic, not all of the time, but still, we all know that we experience tragedy at some point in our lives. And some people experience it a lot more than other people. There are levels of tragedy, and some experience it worse than others. A spilled glass of milk on your pants is far less tragic than someone breaking into your car and stealing your cell phone before class in the morning. (I experienced that little lovely last October). Sometimes tragedy makes us stronger, and other times it just breaks us down and makes us cry our eyes out. We certainly hope to learn some kind of events from these events, but, regrettably sometimes we just learn nothing except how to endure pain. It is said what doesn't kill us makes us stronger, and I agree with that from a personal stand point. "You must embrace the suck!!!" That is one of my favorite phrases of all time, and its more than funny, it is actually deep, you just have to search for it. We are humans, and we must go through pain, whether we like it or not, that's just life. God uses pain in our lives to make us grow closer to Him, and so that when we overcome obstacle in our life we will give Him the glory that is due. Luckily we don't experience tragedy all of the time, however we sometimes become the physical embodiment of tragedy itself. Like in the great words of Oedipus, "I am agony." He wasn't just feeling agony, he had become the physical manifestation of the essence of agony itself. I don't think that it gets much worse than that. I myself, have come close to the point of becoming agony/despair, and it was truly a miserable experience. But it helped me to grow as a person, grow closer to my friends, and even more importantly, grow closer to God. It was a horrible experience, but I learned a lot from it. If God wills me to go through something similar, then I will, and I'll come out even stronger on the other side, like I did last time, by His grace.

Another thing that we talked about in class were crossroads. Now I found that topic to be particularly interesting. This has applied directly to life as well. There has been a time where I thought I was walking with a person, but then we came to a crossroad in our relationship, and they were going the other direction than I, and I could feel God clearly pulling me away from them. So I obeyed God, and we parted ways,....forever, and now they no longer exist in my life. But that was another experience that God used to pull me closer to Him. There are many crossroads in our life. College is the biggest one that I have ever experienced in my existence. I know people at UM that I may never see again once I, or they, graduate. I certainly will try my best to stay in contact with them, since my closest friends go here, but there is always a chance that God may push them out of my life forever. The Honor's program has been the single greatest college experience, and it has been one of the best examples of a crossroad at this school. Sophomores help run the class and then they leave to let the Freshmen step up on to the pedestal to take the previous Sophomores place. And I have truly learned more than I ever thought I would at this giant crossroad, filled with the greatest people, and the most brilliant professors of our school.



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