To tell the truth is revolutionary.

-Antonio Gramsci

So I've been watching criminal minds a lot lately, and I love that they start and end each episode with a quote, so that is how i want to start writing my blog entries. Which lets face it will probably not be often considering it's been about a year since my last entry if not longer, good thing my followers are some of the main characters in the comedy that is my life.

I chose this quote about telling the truth because lately I've been thinking about the fact that in our society it is almost expected at times that we lie. Take the classic question "do these jeans make me look fat?" Who actually wants to hear the answer to that? And if your asking you already know the answer. Why ask someone to lie to you? put on a different pair of pants!

Then there are those that have learned to lie to themselves for so long that they can't tell the difference between fact and fiction. We lie to our selves to be happy in circumstances that we know are bad for us. Why do we choose comfort so often over working towards the things in life that will make us truly happy. I've had a great life, but for so long I've chose comfort over work. Now When most of my friends are starting their careers and I've only recently decided what i want to go to school for and started to save money. Why did I put it off for so long?
I was content with life, I knew I could be happier, getting more out of life and growing up...so to speak, but my life wasn't and isn't bad. Just not complete, but when and how do we know our life is complete? I just want my life to be fulfilling not just contentful(which I realize is not a word but you know what i mean).

OK so new topic. I can only be deep for about 3 paragraphs and then i get bored. Life is fun, and content or not there is so much joy in this world being serious for too long is just a waste of time. So I want to talk about the AWESOMELY GREAT things that have happened in my life.

Ok, so first of all, I have the best parents anyone could ask for, my dad is hilarious and fun but not without a stern side. My mom is beautiful,sweet, kind and even though there are 6 kids in our family, she keeps tabs on all of us(which is hard with me because i've never been much of a sharer on emotional things) and they both have loved us all so much that i dont think any of us could ever say we didn't have a great life.

Then I have my siblings and brother in law who are all amazing in their own way. I love them so much and I wouldn't be who i am without them.

I have a neice and a nephew, my neice is only about a month old but i love her so much and my nephew is about 4 but he is one of my favorite people in this world. He can make me smile no matter what the circumstances are.

Then I have 2 of the best best friends I could ask for. One is one of my two roomates(the other is my sister) And she and I have been best friends for years and even though we're completely different people we're always there for eachother. She's awesome. Then my other best friend and I have been friends since I was in Jr.high (although I dont know if i've ever told him he was one of my best friends but i think he's got a pretty good idea) He's an awesome guy who worked so hard to get to where he is in life and i respect him so much for everything he's done.

I have always had the greatest friends anyone could ask for. I'm alittle...well lets call it eccentric cause i feel like weird has a bad sound to it. And they're so fun and eccentric in there own way too. I guess we're just a group of people who choose to enjoy life rather than worry about assimilating into soceity completely. They are so awesome.

I have something to believe in and I know it's true.It's as simple as that. Religion is a really big part of my life and I love that my heavenly father loves me enough to have helped my family in so many ways.

I love my life, and everyone in it.

Life is meaningless only if we allow it to be. Each of us has the power to give life meaning, to make our time and our bodies and our words into instruments of love and hope.
- Tom Head

That's what I'm pondering,

Tipper