Priorities

Do you know what I am terrible at doing?  If you guessed food eating contests, ballet, making casual non-awkward conversation with strangers, or resisting chocolate chip cookies, you would be completely right.  Or, if you are just super observant and thought, she is going to say prioritizing because that is the title of this post, then you are wrong.  No you aren't.  I just thought you needed to be taught a lesson for acting so arrogant as if you know my life.  Wow.  That escalated quickly.  Anyway, I am terrible at prioritizing.  For instance, I am currently writing a blog post instead of studying for finals which start Tuesday.  That should make you guys feel good about yourselves.  I am prioritizing your obvious happiness which will result from seeing that I once again have blogged about nothing so that you could read it, over my future.  You are welcome.  As if that wasn't enough proof that I am bad at prioritizing, think about this blog.  The moment I came to college, a place crawling with blog-able experiences, I stopped blogging because I got distracted.  I literally forgot that this even existed for the past 5-ish months.  Rude.  Sorry about that guys.  I know how devastating it must have been.  Day after day, week after week, checking this blog, hoping and praying that I posted, and continuously being disappointed.  Don't worry.  I don't think that actually ever happens.  But it makes me feel better about myself so just play along.  Anyway, with the ever quickly approaching "Apocalypse," (which I really hope is an "Alpaca-lypse" where wild Alpacas take over the government.  Wouldn't that be funny to see?  Like an Alpaca election... no?  too weird?  Ok.  I will end these parentheses now then...)  Like I was saying, with the so called "end of the world" approaching so soon, I started thinking.  I don't actually believe the world is going to end, but what if it did?  Would I be happy with the life I have gotten to live?  Thats when I realized that I absolutely fail at prioritizing.  Ok maybe I don't "absolutely fail" but I am not great at it.  I think I need to remember what is most important to me and who it is I want to be.  The truth is, I am happy with how my life has gone.  I am surrounded by people that I love, I have so much to be thankful for and I have gotten to do some really awesome things.  But when it comes down to it, I need to remember to nurture those relationships, to actually be grateful for things and to not get so caught up in the little stuff.  So as we all start hoarding canned goods and building bomb shelters in our backyards or whatever people do that freak out about this stuff, lets remember whats most important to us, and prioritize those important things over all the hoopla that distracts us every other day.