In life, we are always realizing new things about ourselves. One thing about myself that I have recently realized is that I am not a very private person--at least not as private as I once was.
On my way back from Tennessee Sunday morning I basically told my friend Katie Carroll my entire life story, including all of my dark secrets. I have many such "secrets," but I now only have to keep them from certain people. I would prefer not to have them at all, but some things simply cannot be told. Anyway, Katie is very easy to talk to, so I suppose that my openness could be attributed in part to that fact. I am not, for example, ready to spill my story out on stage or even to write it in this blog.
The point to my little ramble here is that whereas I once had the utmost difficulty in opening up to people, I a m now able to do so with ease, and I believe I am a better person because of it. I like myself better, anyway. That's what really matters. God has taught me a lot in the past four years of college, but my newfound openness is one of the best lessons. I see it as a gift, and I am very blessed.
So, Kayla's life lesson of the day: be open with yourself and be open with others. Know who you are, where you stand, what your journey has made you and let others know as well. It hurts to be so full-out honest sometimes. You will be betrayed at least once, but the rewards are well worth the effort.
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Ham-Fisted Doofus
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I was just talking to my brother about this subject. Because I signed up for this thing called Formspring, which is the silly little sight where folks can ask you random anonymous question. And someone asked who I do I trust the most? I said that the only 2 people that I can say that I trust 100% are my mother and my brother. I know I could tell them ANYTHING. But that's it.
I mean, there are folks that I love and trust, but there are still some limits. I have a cousin, whom my brother and grew up with, she's inbetween us in ages, and I think of her more as my sister than as cousin. I do trust her for the most parts, in terms of the standard trusting issues. Like I know I could tell her my bank account pin # and password and trust that she's not going to go in and take out all of my money (not that there's ever that much money in my bank account anyway), but, for example, let's say that I accidentally killed someone. I don't think I would tell her that. If I felt like confessing to someone it would likely only be my mother and/or brother.
A bit morbid, I know. But that's the best example I could come up with to describe what I means by ABSOLUTE trust.
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