Introduction

Since this is my first time ever posting I'd like to introduce myself. I'm Kelly, a 17 year old girl who has decided to document her journey through life. Not that I really expect for anyone to read it, it just seems like a good way to leave my mark on the world, and also a very good way to vent about my hardships and happy times. Life has never really been an easy road to travel, but so often I find that people either focus completely on the hard times or completely on the good. Where is the balance? Life is full of ups and downs. Sure some people may have had more bad times than good, but doesn't that just make the good times worth holding on too?

My life for instance, though most would say is just the beginning, has been rough.  But I do remember the good times I've had. I try to keep my focus on those good times, and it seems to help me get through.  When I'm sitting in my room with my face in my hands, wondering why I even bother to keep going, I think about the wind in my hair as I was a child riding on the back of the four wheeler with my cousin, or the buttery smell of freshly popped kettle corn from long girls' nights with my sister and some friends. Sometimes, I even just think of the few times that somebody noticed me crying and they gave me a hug or offered a smile. That has shown me that goodness does exist in the world and even when you are completely in the darkness, you can keep moving on towards that light at the end of the tunnel that you can see in many people around you.

All in all, if only one person is saved by the kindness of somebody, isn't that enough? Doesn't that prove that life is worth living? That there is a light at the end of the tunnel and that the grass is greener on the other side? I think that it does.

Thus, in my sharing of my life, and my life's philosophy, I hope to have given encouragement to at least one person. But even if I don't, I will have tried and that alone gives me a reason to wake up every day. That chance of making a difference in the world.