Do We REALLY Have Control?

~ We Have No  Control Over Most Things That Happen To Us ~

Everyday we wake up and we have a choice to make:

~ Am I going to do the right thing
OR
~ Am I going to do the wrong thing

Weather you know it or not, you subconsciously make this choice.

You choose weather you are going to be in a good mood or a bad mood.
You choose what clothes you wear.
How you are going to style your hair.
But, what it comes down to is...
You have a choice, you are dictator over what happens in your life.

It's pretty hard to understand, so let me go a little deeper.
You have a choice weather you want to get involved with drugs.
Some people claim that it wasn't their fault, or that they were pressured to do it, but you can't just blame things that happen on the situations that occur almost recently.
You have to take it back to the beginning.

You have to take it back to when it was your choice weather or not to hang out with that group of people who did drugs.
 You have to take it to when your friend offered you your first blunt, or cigarette.
Ultimately you put yourself in the position to be involved with drugs.
You associated yourself with "friends" who do drugs.
Who you hang out with will determine your actions.
Your friends "rub-off" on you, weather you like it or not.

So, yes. You have the power to control anything that happens to you, if you allow yourself the POWER to not engage in situations that may lead up the things that initially happen to you.


This doesn't happen in all cases.
You can't ALWAYS control what happens to you, but in MOST situations you can.
You can't control weather your parents get divorced, or you get in a car wreck.
Some things you can't control.
And that's okay.

But, there are things that you can control and I think that today, society has taken advantage over the fact that they "don't have control" over what happens in their life.


Xoxoxo ~ Riley 

A True Friend

~ A True Friend Is One Who Will Tell You The Truth, Even When You Don´t Want To Hear It. ~

This is a statement that I feel very strongly about. 

Not only is it true, but I have had first-hand experience with this and know am very thankful for the girl that was a true friend. 

It was in 7th grade when I became hospital home bound for the remainder of that school year. 

I was not able to go back to that school after I was discharged from hospital home bound. 

So, the start of my 8th grade year I had to enroll in a different school.

 I got involved with drugs and boys and I started to do things that I should not have done.

 I was looking to for happiness and I seemed to get a high with drugs and sexual things with guys. 

It put me in a bad place. 

While my other friends were shaming me and hating on me, I had one friend who stood up for me. 

She is the only one who knew what was really going on. 

I thought that I had a lot of good friends because I was considered ¨popular,¨ but all of those friends were never truly there for me when I needed them to be.

 When I was up at 2:00 in the morning with a blunt on my desk, crying because I don´t want to smoke it but the addiction was so strong... they were not there for me. 

They laughed and made fun of me, and made up rumors and lies. 

They told everyone my deepest secrets and made everything worse. 

But there was still that one friend. 

She is the one who stayed up on the phone with me at night when I really wanted to smoke that blunt, or sneak out to be with a boy. 

She was the one who told me that if I kept going down this path I will have nothing left, besides an orange suit and a roommate because I will be in jail. 

She is the one who told my parents when I smoked, or when I would sneak out of the house. 

She did not tell on me so that I would get in trouble, she told on me because she cared and she did not want me to end up in jail.  

She always told me the hard stuff. She told me how it was, and she did not sugar coat it. 

She really cared. 

She cared enough that she would put me through hell with my parents, if that meant that I would stop doing drugs and getting into trouble with boys. 

So, Yes, A true friend will tell you the truth even when you don´t want to hear it. 

Why? 

Because they care. 

Xoxo ~ Riley 

Heritage Interview

Have you ever wondered where your family is from? 

Am I related to any famous people?

Is my family in the blood line of royalty?

Were any of my grandparents in a major war?

These are questions that I have often wondered throughout my life. 

So, I took it upon myself to interview my Grandma, and see if she knows anything about my family's heritage. 

I asked her about life when she was younger and how it was different from how we live today. 

I asked her about what she knew about older relatives from our family. 

I learned so pretty interesting things. 

We are related to the Hatfields. 

When my grandmother was younger she didn't have indoor plumbing, and she didn't have a cellphone. 

Cell phones didn't even come out until after she had her second child. 

I was able to hear about her Mom and their life growing up as a child. 

I figured out how our family got to be where we are today. 

Xoxo ~ Riley