This past weekend I went back home to Santa Cruz for a little family time. It was a much needed weekend home and a much needed time to put things that I care about into perspective. Sometimes, I get so lost in the San Diego lifestyle that I forget about the sole reason that I am down here.
Going home was refreshing. Hanging out with my older brother Nick is probably the best curative treatment any person could ever receive. I swear he has an abundant amount of serotonin flowing through his brain because he is always happy. When he walks into a room people can't help but smile and talk to him. He lights up so many people's lives and is the center to our family. Nick has Down Syndrome and Apraxia. Apraxia is a disorder in which he is not able to coordinate movement of the motor movement of his mouth-- in short terms he can't form words so basically when he talks it sounds like a lot of mumbo jumbo. Since, I grew up with him I can understand some things however the common person would not be able to understand Nick for the life of them.
However, this being so, it does not set Nick back in anyway. If I could tell you the one person I know who lives their life the way every person wants to and hopes one day to that would be Nick. He finds happiness, love, and passion in everything that he does. His favorite being dance. Nick is the reason why I don't let small things.. even big things get to me. Nick was born with a disability and yet he is able to find more happiness then anyone I know. He literally is an angel that was sent to show people how to live life. He is the most amazing person I know and I am the luckiest person to be able to call him my older brother.
Stop for a minute and think. Is their something that has been bugging you constantly? Are you holding a grudge that you just can't seem to let go? Are you upset by an action of another? Realize, that in a year, even in a few weeks this feeling will not exist anymore, it will not matter-- so do yourself a favor and just let it go. Maybe you can't let it go because then you do not have a backbone. (I have heard this said many times about myself.) Who made up this theory of 'having a backbone' anyways? It is just a feeling, feelings go away, change, and come again. Let it go-- live carefree and happy. Free your mind.
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