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5 Things I Learned This Year

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5 Things I Learned This Year
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Now that the school year has finally come to an end, I thought I would do a little reflection and talk about all the five main things that I learned this year. It definitely was a trying year, however, no trial in life goes without a lesson. So without further delay, here are the five main things I learned this year.

1) Tolerance

This school year I learned how to tolerate a lot of things and people. There were times when I just wanted to scream, but I had to catch my composer and realize that sometimes you just have to let people be. You are not going to agree with everyone or like everyone, but you do have to tolerate them.

2) To Be Quite


Sometimes you just have to learn to be silent. They say that "empty vessels make the most noise," and boy did I see that to be true a lot this school year. There were times when I wanted to say some stuff but I just kept quiet because I was taught that if I did not have anything nice to say then I should not say anything at all.

3) Real Friends Are Hard To Find

Fake people are always going to be around, and there are some people who just cannot be real. Their personality switches as soon as they switch friend groups. They are going to pretend to be sorry, but in reality, they are not, and those are the people you just have to let go.

4) How To Let Go

This year I truly had to learn how to let go of people, feeling, relationships and so much more. There was just so much happening that was very unhealthy that I could not deal with. I had to just put people behind me and let them go. Even though I care, I still had to let them go because not everyone comes into your life to stay. Some come for a season, while others are there for a lifetime.

5) God Gives His Toughest Battles To His Strongest Warriors

I do not think I need to go into any further details with this but I truly fought many battles this year. There were times when I wanted to quit and give up but God kept saying no keep pressing and that is what I did. I understood that He would take care of me and I was happy that when everyone else turned their backs on me God did not. He held me, soothed my soul, and wiped all my tears.

There is a lot more things that I learned this year, but these definitely had to be my top five. At least in the end I can say that I made it through all my ups and downs, and that God had my back the entire time through it all. So here's 2016-2017 the year of struggles and triumphant!

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