Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes..

Change.  Depending on the occassion this one little word can be the best of beautiful, or it can be the worst of  ugly. Spring coming and ending this dreary winter we have had... Beautiful!  Utah Jazz changes as of lately.. Ugly! "Be the change you you want to see in the world." "Change brings opportunity." "If we don't change we aren't living, if we don't live we won't grow." "Change is inevitable."  These are all quotes that we hear quite often.  Maybe it's because spring is just around the corner but lately I have thought a lot about this funny little word called change.

The other day I was talking with a girl that I went to high school with but didn't know very well.  I learned so much about her and how much she had changed.  In high school she became addicted to meth, got pregnant,  and had been arrested several times.  She told me how much she hated her life in high school.  Now she is majoring in Nursing, is married, raising two cute little boys, has a job, and just got sealed to her cute little family she has a few weeks ago in the Logan temple.  How amazing is she?!  We got into a deep conversation and I asked her how she did it.  How in the world did this girl seem to go from the ugliest of circumstances to the beaautiful position she is in right now, and all in only three years?  She told me that she just wanted to change the guys she was dating.  She said she dated guys that weren't into great things, but that the worst part was that they didn't respect her in any aspect.  So she wanted to date guys that were better for her. She then said that she realized that if she wanted to date guys that had all these great qualities that she herself would have to try to be better.  She went on with her story making it clear that she just changed little things here and there.



Ever since speaking with this amazing girl, I have reflected on my own life.  There seems to be so many things that I want to change.  I want to be a better daughter, a better friend, a better sister,a better student, a better employee, I want to be more positive, I want to help others more, I want to be more friendly, I want to be a better missionary, I want to be a better example.  I'm sure that we all have things that we want to change in our lives.  Today is the day that I hope to make one small change for the better.  I hope that I can always 'Be Myself"  but I hope to change a little every day.  I hope I can become the kind of person that I hope to become through these small, but ever so important changes.

Taylor Swift- Change