Day 54: You Win Some, Ya Loose Some

    As everyone knows, and has heard in every kind of cliche, life consists of cycles of ups and downs. Sometimes you will have months of bad things happen to you and then all of a sudden things turn out for the better or vice versa, you have the world in the palm of your hand and one wrong move and everything comes crashing down. But in other cases, mine in particular, you have one day that amazing things happen to you and then you hear some really bad news. You want to be happy, but you can't stop thinking about the bad. Or I am focused on what I missed out on but feel bad for not appreciating all the good that I have in my life.
    This morning I got a call from the Manager for the Urban Outfitters that will be opening in State College this month that informed me that they were offering me the job of a Sales Associate for Urban! I have no experience in any professional work field and there were so many people that applied to the job, argo I screamed on my way to class when I received the news (my apologies to anyone walking on Allen street this morning).  Immediately I called my mom to tell her, but my mom had news as well. The news that no one ever wants to hear. My neighbor and father to a dear friend of mine passed away late last night/early this morning. He fought a long and hard fight against cancer and my thoughts and prayers have been going out to their family for a very long time. (I also just saw that I didn't win the trip to Paris... kind of the least of my worries at this point).
     Today is a day I don't really know what to do with myself. I have things I know I should do and get done: homework, celebrate birthdays, enjoy the first football game of the season. But these things seem so trivial compared to what I'm feeling. So I'm going to head home for the weekend and hug my dad .

-M.