Tuesday, January 3, 2012

A story about a girl I know




Once there was a little girl who grew up in a normal house with a normal family. She lived a normal life...but she wanted something more, she just didn't know what it was. She searched, but she didn't know what she was looking for. On the outside, she was still a normal person, but on the inside, she was screaming for something different. She continued to live a normal life. She was a normal child, a normal pre-teen, and then she became a teenager. She got tired of being normal. She got tired of being compared to her family. She got tired of being told what to do, what to be..so she changed. She started to speak her mind. She believed different things. She met people that were considered "outsiders" and she loved them. She changed her normal hair color, her normal hair style. She changed her normal clothes. She changed her normal music. She grew tired of the girls who teased her. She got tired of anything normal. She was different and she was happy..but she wanted something more, she just didn't know what it was. She got older, and her "new normal" was no longer fun. She got tired of people judging her because of her different hair, her different clothes, her different views, so she began to change. She fell in to line, she started to blend in. She made new friends, she had new jobs, she had a normal life, and she was happy, but she wanted something more. She searched and searched for what she was missing, but she didn't know what she was looking for. Then one day she had a break through. She realized that as long as she was being true to herself, nothing else mattered. She had to find herself. She searched everything. She prayed, she meditated, she read, she studied. She stopped listening to what others wanted her to be, she listened to what her HEART wanted her to be. She tried lots of different things, until one day she looked in the mirror, and saw herself. Not what others saw, but what her heart saw, and she was happy...but she wanted something more, she just wasn't sure what it was. She continued to be herself, making mistakes, fixing her mistakes, and living the way she wanted to. Then one day she met a boy. A very cute boy. He made her heart smile. Her heart whispered, "Here's that something you were looking for." She became friends with this boy. Then they became more than friends, then they fell in love, and then they became a couple and she was happy and thought she was done wanting more. Then one day she went to a doctor, the doctor said to her "You're going to be a mother" and the girl was shocked. The girl wasn't sure what she thought, until her heart whispered "Here it is, here's the thing you were looking for, but you didn't know you wanted." The girl was happy. The boy was happy. The couple became three, and they were all happy. The girl loved her little family and wanted more. The couple tried and tried, and finally had a little girl. The family was complete, but only for a little while. God had decided that a "normal" was not what this family needed, so he took the baby to heaven. The girl was sad but she hid it very well. She went back to acting normal, but on the inside she was screaming. She looked in the mirror and didn't see herself. She thought she's never feel normal again. Time went by and the girl started to feel better. She had a wonderful husband and a perfect little boy and she was happy. She figured she had all she needed, but her heart still wasn't healed. She still felt incomplete but she wasn't sure why. She moved with her family to a town far away in the desert. She started to live her normal life until one day she met a girl. A very funny girl. All of a sudden, the girl's heart was happy and it whispered to the girl "Here she is, a best friend for you, this is what you have been searching for, you just didn't know it." From that day on the girl was happy. She lived her life the way she wanted. She dressed the way she wanted. She opened her heart and mind to new adventures and she met new amazing people. The girl looked in the mirror and she saw herself again. The girl was happy, but she wanted something more. She moved, and moved, and moved again, each time having new adventures, meeting new people. She started to pray again, slowly. She started to realize that her searching made her feel alive. The girl is still happy but will never stop searching, and she will do it with an open mind and an open heart. Her adventure is still going strong...

1 comment:

  1. Love it! Life is totally about the journey, the quest to be better and search out truth.

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