NEW YEAR

i just wanted to try leaving to see if i'd come back. 

i don't want to spend that much time reflecting on the past year, but it was beautiful, wasn't it? 

if i've learned anything, it's that everything is about love. everything i do is because i love. i live what i believe, i share things, i learn things, and i am happy because i love. 

i was dreading coming back to provo this semester because it's not paris. and i'll be the first to admit it- provo is not my thing, but i've been given the greatest gift i could have ever been given from the second i stepped off that plane in salt lake city. 

i'm worried my heart just isn't big enough for the love that i have felt this past week. monday especially. i was able to be with all of my old roommates from freshman year. it's been four years since then. i randomly saw a total of fourteen people on monday who are so dear to my heart, and i have been seeing everyone else all week, not to mention seeing my caitie this past weekend.

we've all changed, but it's only made the love that we have for each other greater. 

oh how blessed i am. 

even though i may not be living in paris this year, i'm excited to see and know that truly, the best is yet to come. 

"and i asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep." -kurt vonnegut