Life.

We are doing peer edits on our final essays in my composition class.  I'd have to say, I am very proud of my 14 page personal essay.  I enjoyed writing it.  I am finding more and more that I truly do love to write.  I read three of my classmate's essays for the peer editing workshop.  One was about her battle with anxiety and depression.  One was about how her best friends accidentally hung himself the day of their middle school graduation.  The final one was about her best friend who died in a boating accident when she was ten years old.  It is crazy how sooo many people have these terribly tragic stories to tell. As they say, life's a bitch.

But life is also amazing and beautiful and what you make of it.  There are numerous cliches about life, such as "life is like a box of chocolates. One of my favorite quotes about life is "Life begins at the end of you comfort zone." However, now that I really think about this quote, it is somewhat untrue.  You are "living" until the day that you die, regardless of if you are doing anything big/productive/meaningful with your life or not.  You don't only live once, you live everyday.  You only die once, which is probably why so many people are so afraid of death.  

I have been on a runner's high all day after running the Illinois Half Marathon this morning.  However, I have felt slightly sickish all day and now have a head ache.  Yes, I am currently feeling that life is both amazing and a bitch at the same time.