Lately, life has been treating me so well that I've hardly anytime to reflect on it. One of the main reasons I haven't been blogging lately because I was away on a school like trip thing. It was really cool because I got to meet with youth from all across the country. But it was basically plackes the entire day with activities. Somedays, I felt like I hardly had anytime to breath. (I mean that in the best way possible)
Looking back now, I am sooo glad I vlogged throughout the trip. (Vlogged meaning blogging but with a video at random times) It has given me the opportunity to look back all the good memories that I made. What made its so memorable for me wasn't the place itself, but the people I met and the little things we did together.
The little things were dancing on the bus with the coolest of bus drivers. Being terrible at pictionary but laughing through it. Sneaking food around the dorms ever so secretly. Waiting in the never ending food line for meals which ended up being a fantastic place to make friends. Basically, just being with new people and experiencing new things with them MADE my trip for me.
Like any trip, it has to end. And with endings there comes goodbyes. There was one particular goodbye that really touched my heart.
It was approximately 4am and none of us had any sleep yet because we stayed up the entire night because it was our last night. So everyone was quite tired. I was doing very good at not crying until I had to say goodbye to this one boy. The thing about this boy was that he was a year younger than me and I didn't even think of him as anything more than just friends. We were friendly all week long and became actual real good friends on the last day. But when it was time to say goodbye, I cried. A lot. Infact I think my tears were infectious because he was crying too. Something he said to me during this time really stood out to me.
He said, "Don't cry, you're just so happy all of the time."
Now, just over a week later. Those words still stick out to me.
It actually means a lot to me to think that someone thought that I was a happy person to be around. Like any real human being nobody is happy all of the time. Like it just makes me feel really good.
But also it makes me wonder, why is it so bad to cry? Why hold back your feelings? The fact that people willingly can hold back there tears confuses me.
I came up with this little poem (ish) thing on crying. It basically explains how I feel on holding back tears.
Basically, those few little words made me reflect on my whole trip as whole and those little words made me cry even more.
I am challenging YOU to do two things:
1. Reflect on a positive trip or an experience that you've been on. What were the little things that made it so significant?
2. Cry. Not right now. Cry next time you feel like you need to. Don't hold back how you feel.
Also, I felt too weird letting you guys know where I went on my trip because my blog is ment to be more secretive, you know? So I just left it in general terms. Hope you lovely readers didn't mind!
Until next time,
Xoxo
-Corella
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