no worries

i'm failing miserably at keeping this thing updated. i need to get back on this.

i had my first weekend road trip with friends this weekend.
it was good.
it was bad.
i was happy.
i got irritated.
i learned a lot about myself.

my patience levels are horribly low. i've decided that i'm replacing soda with patience. giving up soda for lent, using that to spend time with Jesus and work on my patience. i need to be slow to speak. i need to work on my filtering of my thoughts. i have to be able to listen to people, take a deep breath and calm down. i get heated too quickly, too easily, too often. i'm going to cause myself internal problems if anything else. i risk losing friends and hurting friendships. i need to be able to keep my mouth shut.

this weekend showed me just how much i need those things. how much i love my friends, but don't understand their thought processes and why they say the things they do. however, i don't always need to comment on them. i don't need to point it out. i just need to go with the flow. "no worries". this was a learning lesson for me. it's a process. like everything else i do in my life. nobody stops learning. every day you learn something that you didn't know before, or may have forgotten.