What event changed your life for the better?
Submitted by Kasey.
I really enjoy doing these question of the day things. It's kinda like our daily journal entries we did in my high school creative writing class. I liked those alot. So here I go! I'm gonna try to do at least 4 entries on here a week. I think it makes me feel like I have accomplished something...I don't know why. So anyway...
The event that changed my life for the better...two come to mind, but one has kinda been done in my other blogs, so I'll skip it (meeting Hannah). The other event is going with Hannah to her church. When I agreed to go, I'll be honest, it was mostly to please her family and to make her happy. After all of my problems with religion I had given up on it. When I went that night, however, all of that kinda changed. It has since changed my life. I go with her almost every week, have started to have faith in God and overall it has made me a better person already. I still have a long way to go, but I'm trying to accept and understand these changes in my life. I'm trying to accept my past as being my past and trying very hard to understand that Hannah is just trying to help me be a better person and although it's hard, I'm trying to take it as such rather than as an attack when she brings up religion. Walking into church with her that night absolutely changed my life.
I've been having financial issues lately, which is something very new for me. I've always been very responsible with my money, I've never really been in debt and I've never really had to worry about it. Things have changed though and now I'm forced to face a reality. I really need to do something to end this problem. I've tried selling old stuff that I don't want anymore and I've actually made quite a bit of money that way, but it doesn't solve the problem. How do I know this? Because everytime I make some money in that fashion I find myself a month later looking for more stuff to sell, desperate for money. I really don't have that big of a problem. In fact most people would probably say that I'm doing ok, but I HATE being in debt to anyone and I hate borrowing money or taking money from anyone. I also find myself unable to buy things I want for the person I care most about. I know she says it's fine, and I know she loves me for more than the things I buy for her, but it is important for me to be able to take her out to dinner and do little things like that. Right now that's pushing the limit. So I need more of a long term solution, which has turned into my project over the last week. I'm not sure how to approach the problem, so I started with a few small rules...
I am keeping myself from making any purchases over $50 at a time. Part of my problem started when I moved home and bought a PS3, games, and an HDTV. Recently I spent almost $200 on Rock Band, $100 on Guitar Hero and $200 again on guitar gear. It needs to stop, and so far it has stopped and isn't a big problem. The next thing I'm trying to do is to put money into savings from each paycheck I get. I don't have a set % or amount, but it has really helped to just put in something, anything at all really. It's nice to finally have some money in savings, even if it isn't much. The third part is hard, but it is necessary. I do need to start watching out for how often I take Hannah out to dinner and more importantly where we go. I might write more later, but for now I have to go...
