Taking Life For Granted.

Have you ever gone throughout your day and at the end, never realized that you took advantage of your life? I never had until recently. Yesterday, I did homework that I could've spaced out throughout a whole week but never did because I knew that I had that whole time to do it. That gave me time to think about all the other things I took for granted. Things that every human being takes advantage of every single day. I thought about the friendship that was thrown in my face, family arguments and fights, and a move that changed my life.

Even though this only started with homework not being done, I thought about my life. I thought about how I lost a strong friendship because I was too wrapped up in myself and believing that I would never lose that friendship. And because I constantly told myself that I would never lose my friends, I made a stupid mistake that ruined my life. However, breaking that friendship and that bond made me stronger. Because I was able to see that I took it for granted and that's why it was taken away from me. I'm a strong believer that everything happens for a reason. And at the rate I was going, there's a good possibility that the reason that friendship was taken from me was because I would not be where I am right now if it hadn't been.

Another thing that I seemed to take advantage of was family. It went from just being me and my parents living upstairs from my grandparents. Then, both my parents brought it roommates so then there were five of us. That was all well and fine until mom's roommate brought in their son because he had no where else to go. Him and I had never really gotten along to begin with but now he was living with me. We fought constantly and he always called me his sister and he always called my mom his mom. So needless to say, it bugged me because he's always been a troublemaker; suspended from school nine times, almost expelled last school year and just an all over asshole. So I didn't think he'd earned the right. So having my parents always around and not having anyone else to interfere in my home life was also a thing I'd taken for granted.

And finally, the last thing I took for granted was my grandparents always living downstairs or at least nearby. That was until they got sick of my aunt and uncle's constant nagging and just decided one day that they were going to move to Arizona. It broke my heart because I knew that it was my aunt and uncle's fault they were leaving. I cried for days. I tried to be so strong but it just hurt so bad. We decided that me, my father, and his roommate were going to move into their downstairs apartment, which is where we're at now. However, that means more money, because we're buying for both homes, utilities, etc. So we're having a lot of money issues, especially since my grandparents aren't chipping in their rent every month anymore. So I know that money is another thing I've been taking for granted my whole life too.

So anytime people say that they can't do something, think of the people that may have it worse off than you. Or think of all the things in your life that you had but now all of a sudden don't because of a sudden change that was unavoidable. That's what I did and that just started from doing homework and realizing that I had an entire week to do it. I knew that I had homework but since I had a week to do, I waited until last minute and then opened up the assignment notebook and realized I had three hours of homework to finish in two. So the lesson in this is just flat-out, don't take the small things for granted because you'll never get it back to the way it used to be.