The things I'm SLOWLY learning.

There are a number of things that I am slowly learning as an adult.  Life lessons can sometimes take me a while to learn and they occasionally knock me on my a** before they make it into my brain.  Here are some of the things that I've been learning:     

• I love being in the classroom, I love learning, I love education, and I need to keep that in mind.  When I'm in school I feel as though I am working toward something and trying to better myself, not just sitting in one stagnate spot in my career.  
• Being a "productive member of society" is not fun.  I thought that being an adult would be so much fun.  Getting to chose what I do and when I do it, but it's really not all that my teenage self thought it would be.  Being a "productive member of society" is so much responsibility!   
• Sometimes I forget things.  Yes, it happens.  There are times when my memory does not work as well as I think that it should.  I used to kick everyone's booty at Memory (the matching card game), and I still can if I try.  But now I actually have to work at it, before it just sorta happened.  I refuse to give up my title of Memory Queen so I will work and work to keep my throne!  
• Some things are not important.  Realistically, some things just don't matter, and stressing about them is not going to help.  There are times I need to stop and take my "chill pill" and deal with life in a non-dramatic, calm and collected manner because life's to short to freak out about nothing.  On Tuesday my car broke down.  I didn't even skip a beat or get upset, not for a single second.  I calmly called my dad and asked him what I should do, and then proceeded to continue down the path of his wonderful advice.  My car was fixed within two hours and I continued on with my day.     
• I'm crazy.  We are all crazy.  But we should not stop being crazy.  We should never stop being ourselves.  Even though people think that I am crazy, I will continue being myself, because despite all my craziness, people generally like me.  
• Happiness is a choice.  It doesn't really matter what is going on, shove all of the bad things aside and choose to be HAPPY :)  I have to get up every day and decided that I will be happy, despite that problems that I face at work, or wherever else, I will choose to be positive.  I will choose to smile.  I will choose happiness.