Write Your Own Story, but Don’t Change the Characters

 

 

 

 

 

 

As I venture out into the great unknown, I see faces in the crowd that are familiar. Ones that stand out among the rest just as it is for each individual. For me it was walking across the graduation stage, taking that next step into my future, and being brought back from the fear I was having with the embrace of a hug from each of you. As we are present, we see those around us with the love and support we always needed along the way. Be present. Always be present.

Change is inevitable. Change is scary to say the least, but it has to happen. Walk forward with confidence taking each memorable experience, each tear and laugh, and every love along the way. Across all the oceans, across every state, the stars remain the same. As you look out into the night sky, your person(s) will be looking into the same one. The world seems so small if you look at it that way.

I had the pleasure of meeting so many new people, each making a different mark on my heart. All of my closest friends, became my family. Which means my already perfect family has grown. The ones I can turn to when I have doubt in the world or even myself. They took it upon themselves to build me up and prepare me for this seemingly small world. I am grateful to my school for bringing me all of my heart together again. It is full with the purest love and loyalty anyone could ever dream of. Loyalty….what does that mean to you? To me…it means everything. It is being able to tell someone they are wrong when they are and apologizing for when they are wrong themselves. It is making memorable moments with the people you love and standing by there side when times get out of your control, but you try anyway.

I have made a lot of wrongs in my life, but who doesn’t? I don’t expect to be perfect, but I expect to learn from my mistakes as they are made. I want to make a difference. I want to travel the world, learn the different cultures and become less ignorant. My voice will only grow and you will be hearing it throughout the whole world. I will not be an echo.

I had the pleasure of meeting someone that makes all of this make sense. He has pushed me harder than anyone can imagine, setting my boundaries into the unknown. Making me feel so big in the world and showing that I can do anything I set my mind to as long as I’m not scared to try. Thanks to you, fear is no longer in my vocabulary. As I turn this next page, I am so thrilled to see that you are a part of it too.

Love has many meanings. I am grateful that I have people to describe it. Each of my closest friends, my family, my love of my life, they come with their strengths and their weaknesses, but I am blessed to get to know all of it. You all gave me your strength to never take a step back. For this, I will never forget nor would I want to. Every one of your futures will be as bright as you, as for me…mine already is because of you.

Thank you to you all,

I will make you proud one day.

XOXO,

Ken

 

Fate or Chance

No matter how hard you try, when it comes down to it. Whatever is meant to be will be. You find clarity in that saying, proving that wherever life takes you, you end up exactly where you’re suppose to be sharing those memories with exactly who it should be with.

Is it between fate or chance? Maybe both… On my end it is. Every choice we make, every person we let in and push away, it is our choice. The people and memories that are offered are ones sometimes we don’t have control of, but we can choose how far it takes us and how it effects us. We fall in love, yes. It is at a time when you least expect it to, and it is a time that makes you vulnerable. You wear your heart on your sleeve, trying to give everything to that other person, and that’s how it effects us.

Each person has a mark on our lives whether it be a simple compliment or insult. It makes you think about what you were, who you are and what you become. Fate is about it all falling in place by maybe a higher power and the ideas that they set for us. Chance is about that moment when you don’t expect you’re life to change but it does. Everyone wants to be in love. Some find it in a person, themselves or maybe even a hobby that you can’t get away from. It is what makes you happy.

Don’t push what that is away, because it will all make sense one day. People find comfort in faith, I especially do. Me being the one that lost so many people in my life, I hope that they are in a better place still being able to watch over me. While at the same time, they left that mark that will always stay in my heart. Since I am heading towards graduation, I am going to see many faces in the crowd that support me, but that doesn’t mean I wish my Nana or Mamaw could be there. Life and death…it seems just unfair to everyone but it is the circle of life and all you can do is accept it over time, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t still hurt.

Fate or chance…I believe it’s both. But, I wonder am I in charge of both too or do I leave it up to the world and the people around me..