Archive for Friends
April 21, 2011 · Filed under Career, Family, Feminism, Food, Friends, Home, Love, People, Priorities, San Antonio, TX, Self-Realization, Sisterhood, Social Services
As a person…
I am: empathetic
I hope: to succeed
I believe: in giving everyone a chance
I wish: that people could be generous to one another
I fear: losing my family
I give: up sometimes
I need: to get motivated
I want: to be self-sufficient
I am unique because: of the way I look
My secret talents are: cutting hair and baking
I feel best about myself when: I’m with my friends and family
The things I like most about myself are: my sense of humor and strong personality
I’m worth respecting because: I care about others
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I encourage teen moms to share their answers to the questions above. I decided I should too. Sometimes being honest is hard, but its never wrong.
-VC
March 29, 2011 · Filed under Family, Feminism, Friends, Higher Education, Love, Poverty, Priorities, San Antonio, TX, Self-Realization, Social Services, the Future · Tagged deadbeat dads, Life, making lifelong friends, relationships, strong women
When I awoke this morning, I expected the day to turn out ordinary. A typical Monday.
Aside from my soy latte, there was nothing typical about it.
I think back to a time where I was lonely, even surrounded by everybody, to a time where I was lost and the future looked cloudy, and I relish the fact that I am no longer there. I am here. I am who I am. And I know what I am supposed to do.
I will continue to make mistakes, to say hurtful things probably and speak before thinking. I will drive too fast and still bite my nails. I will jump the gun. I will criticize people’s ways of cleaning.
I am pretty sure the state of enlightenment I experienced today will stay with me forever. Today I truly fell in love with being human.
I am optimistic about growing older.
-VC
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September 5, 2010 · Filed under Family, Friends, Home, Love, Priorities, Self-Realization, the Future
Adulthood and doing something because it needs to be done not because you want to do it. Following through – it hurts like hell but oh well.
I’ve always had to be serious one. I’d like to play for the other team one day.
-VC
July 25, 2010 · Filed under Career, Family, Friends, Priorities, Sociology
Maybe I’m not cut out to work in social services. Working through people’s problems at work is one thing but when it creeps on into my “life”, I just can’t handle it. I’m overwhelmed. I just want to chill sometimes, but its like I’m on the clock non-stop.
Anxious. Exhausted. Annoyed.
I wish I could be more patient with the people that I love. I’ll try. Because I guess this is how it’s gonna be. Are you in, Vanessa?
Yes!
-VC
July 10, 2010 · Filed under Friends, Health, Love, Priorities, Self-Realization
for a good while, I wore contact lenses that were at a prescription too strong for my eyes, that also have a tendency to be overly dry.
but then I visited my optometrist and put in a new, fresh pair of lenses:
and I felt like a new woman.
I could no longer feel my eyes working harder than they needed to, nor did I even feel as if I was wearing contacts at all!
My optometrist seemed very please to hear this.
But it was bittersweet experience for me because while I was happy to see and feel better, I was also upset that I’d spent so much time wearing something that was both uncomfortable and harmful for me.
I loath making mistakes. I’ve learned from them, sure. And, obviously, the lessons learned and the experiences lived are forever beneficial to my well-being, but I have a lingering feeling…
What if I get the wrong prescription again sometime in the future? I am no doctor. How can I know better? What if I spend precious time with something that hurts me instead of helping me? How will I know? What can I do?
Question everything?
-VC
July 4, 2010 · Filed under Art, Career, Education, Family, Friends, Love, Self-Realization, the Future
I thought the best things in life were supposed to inspire me.
-VC
May 4, 2010 · Filed under Art, Friends, Love, Music, Photograhpy · Tagged creating, Friends, Love, Music, Photography
I do not possess any great talents, unless an ability to organize efficiently is a talent, then. Yes. I do possess one. But I do have many interests. And while they have pushed me to try a variety of different things, they’ve also kept me from concentrating on just one or two and becoming really, really good at anything. Maybe mediocre is ok.
Lately, I’ve been thinking more and more about playing/recording some music, making photographs, and putting to use the things I’ve learned from the creative and talented people around me. They’ve gotta be good for something, no? 
I find it peculiar that humans find it so important to leave a legacy – to make a mark on this world.
If feels so great to want to create something – anything. And I know that actually doing so will feel even greater.
-VC
September 20, 2009 · Filed under Friends, Mexican-American, Multi-Ethnic, Texan/Tejano · Tagged Friends, Mexican-American, Multi-Ethnic, tejano, Texan
It seems like the littlest things make me homesick. But, I guess they’re not so little after all. Familiar faces, places, & spaces are, thus, big deals to me.
-VC
