Push it to the limits

I learned over the past weekend an important lesson.  Everyone has a point at which they will not, I repeat NOT, budge past.  Lately, I have dealt with a lot of pressure coming from many sides in my life, relationships with family and friends and just college in general.  I thought that I was basically a pushover, that I'd slide with anything and just roll with any punches life - or people - threw at me.  I guess it took a whole bunch of things falling on me at once for me to reach that point where I said no, I can't carry all of this anymore - it's too much.

I put my foot down to a lot of people, and I realized that I can say no to certain people, and it's fine; it's really not as complicated as I was making it out to be.  I had an awesome conversation with my aunt and uncle last night, and I realized just how much certain things in my life mean to me, and that I should defend those things with all of my heart.  It saddens me how, over time, our values and ideals can deteriorate, and we can fall away from the things we've always wanted because the going either gets too tough or we feel that it's no longer important, even though we know deep down that we still desire it intensely.

It is important to stay true to who we are, no matter who comes around and tries to make us to otherwise.  They may never know just how important something is to us unless we show it, and not showing it would be basically lying to ourselves and them, saying it's okay when really it's not.