relax

This weekend, I went to Florida to play in the UPA Regionals Ultimate Tournament with a team from the Rio Grande Valley. On my way home, I met a girl my age who had been in the Army for 1. 5 years. She's married to a man who is also in the Army, and her brother is being deployed next month for Iraq.

In the next six months, she will be deployed to Iraq for 18 months. That is only 9 months less than my stint with the Peace Corps. Reality check. People leave the people they love for this amount of time a lot more than I think.

I'm not the only one.

I tend to make things into bigger deals than they actually are. My goal for this season is to relax--to enjoy what life brings me and not overthink it to death. I won't let my brain ruin the good things that are happening in my life right now, and there are some really good things happening in my life right now.