And you thought I wasn’t going to finish didn’t you?

Day 14 → A hero that has let you down. (letter)

Would you belive me if I told you I’ve never had a hero? I didn’t grow up with a daddy that I looked up to. As much as I love everybody who had a major piece in who I am today, I never considered them a hero. What’s sad is I’ve actually watched the people in my life that I should look up to for their faults and made notes on how not to be.

With having no hero I’ve haven’t had many let downs. I’ve tried to do this my whole life…. not expect to much, look up to someone too much and in turn no disappointments can occur.

Day 13 → A band or artist that has gotten you through some tough ass days. (write a letter.)

– um, not sure how to write a letter on this so I’ll just talk about the subject…

Mariah Carey just downright knows how to sing it! Through many of my life’s trials she’s been the one singing straight from my heart. When I went through my first heartbreak, when my marriage was on the rocks, it seems like Mariah just knows. I’d listen to her music over and over and over again. During my first real heartbreak I actually won her Rainbow CD off the radio and listened to it OVER AND OVER AND OVER again.

There’s something about music that is borderline magical. It has a way of doing things to your inner soul that regular words just can’t do. It also has this way of hitting you with a ton of bricks when you hear a song from your past. It brings back all of those emotions and feelings that you once had back when that song was significant to your life.

I love that about music and couldn’t fathom a life without music.

These I feel are short enough to be combined into 1 post.

Day 11 ~ Something people seem to compliment you the most on

My eyes.

Day 12 ~ Something you never get compliments on

Being a good mom.  I’m not going to elaborate on this, I just think it’s funny how I come from a family with not the best mothers in the world and I don’t get complimented by them on what a good mom I turned out to be.

This 30 days of truth challenge has been an extremely within the depths of your soul reaching experience for me. Some posts have been extremely difficult for me to write, some have left me in tears, some have made me smile and appreciate my life. If you are interested in jumping on board and doing the 30 Days of Truth on your blog Angel Believes has all of the topics on her blog {HERE}. Just start at the beginning, go at your own pace, and enjoy it.

I tweet my posts using the #30daysoftruth hashtag, since there is no linkup for this. There’s a few other awesome bloggers that are using this hashtag as well.

Day 10 ~ Someone you need to let go, or wish you didn’t know

I don’t think I really have “letting go” issues. If you’re in my life, you’re in my life for a reason. If you’re not… then I’m sure there’s a damn good reason as to why you’re not.

I don’t wish I didn’t know anybody. People who are in my life are here for a reason, people from the past that were in my life had their reason as well… it’s just their time was up. There are bigger and better things for the both of us out there and we didn’t require each other in our lives anymore…. I guess.

I don’t have regrets. So if you were in my life and close to me once, then I appreciate everything you brought to my life, including the bad. We are fortunate enough to have this life to face our challenges and to grow from them. Without the bad that people have brought me, I wouldn’t be who I am today. I must say, I do quite like who I am today ~ versus oh, 5 years ago. Who I was and who I surrounded around me 5 years ago was HORRIBLE, but I took the opportunity to learn that that person and those friends are not who I want to be. So, I packed up, moved my life and keep a nice, padded distance. But I am grateful to them for teaching me that I can be a better person, and that I can choose more for my life and be an even more amazing example for my children. Without learning that from the negative people in my life I wouldn’t be who I am today.

Day 9 ~ Someone you didn’t want to let go, but just drifted

This happens in life. We have people that enter at the time they are meant to enter, and then drift away when their time with us is completed. I don’t think that I’ve ever experienced a time when someone I didn’t want to let go just drifted ~ unless you go back to my teen years. I now understand that people come and go for a reason. People I once wish never drifted away actually opened another door for my life to begin.

God uses his people to do his work, and this is something I truly believe with every single core of my being. People come and go when they’re supposed to, and while at times if someone might drift away that we just didn’t want to drift away ~ we have to know that there’s a reason for it. What their purpose was for is already completed and you should anticipate the exciting arrival of what new things and people await ahead for you. Treasure the past, but don’t live in it.