Bi-weekly 2

So I had my first meeting with my Cardoner family group and that was cool. It looks like we are gunna be hanging out and doing homework together which is fine by me. I think our service thing is going to be walking dogs and stuff at a shelter that Olivia goes to sometimes with another organization on campus. I don’t like dogs much because my neighbor used to have three of them that hated me and would chase me all over(just super traumatizing, no biggie) but I think I’ll manage. I went to the Post Secret presentation and I think that would have been a great Cardoner event. It was very moving and he made it very personal for everyone in the audience. I think it would have been good for the Cardoners because it had a lot to do with turning adversity into something good. Not skipping over the hard times just because they aren’t fun, but embracing every blow because it makes you a better and stronger person. One thing he said that really stuck with me though was “The people most beat down by the world are the people most likely to change it”. I have found that to be relatively true in just the people that I know personally. It seems like the most motivated and the people who don’t let the little things get them down and the people who literally do turn the other cheek are the people who have had it the hardest. I think the message that the founder of Post Secret is giving (to share your secrets) is very important, mostly because of other people I am close to. I know people who never tell anyone things that have happened to them or that they have done or things they have seen, and it seems to eat them. A good friend and I used to be almost the same person when we were much younger. We both went through the same extremely traumatic experience together. I sought counseling and therapy, while he pretended to have never been a part of what went on. He hid it from the world, and, I think, himself very well for quite some time. Eventually, however, he started becoming very introverted and cut off from other people. It even got to the point when the only time I could see him was when I would just show up at his house because even though I was his best friend he wouldn’t even answer the phone for me. This just ggot worse and worse until it was impossible to even be around him because he became so socially inept. I truly believe that the only reason he ended up like that and I did not is the fact that I shared my secret with therapists, and eventually, my close friends. Other than that in the past couple weeks I have just been keeping on the schoolwork. This weekend though I got off campus for a bit which was a nice break and went home to Mandeville. I don’t like living there much, but it’s a nice place to take a break from the bustle of school for a while.