I Like...

YOU

I can’t let YOU go.

Impossible.

LOVE

Why is it so amazing?

Why does it make us cry?

Why does is make us want to jump off the roof?

Why does it make us want to scream louder than everyone in the room?

Why does it make me feel complete?

Why does it hurt so good?

Why can’t it just be simple?

Because it’s LOVE.

Interpersonal Communication

I recently took an interpersonal communications class at Santa Clara University, and it was by far the best class I have ever experienced.

My professor was a 34 year-old father of two. He had been married for about five years, and he said that this was the happiest time in his life.

He had gone through a serious bought of depression for about a year right after college. He had no idea what he wanted in life, he stopped going to parties, hanging with friends, he didn’t date, he didn’t even surf. Instead he started going to bookstores, and he just read… all day, almost everyday for a year. 

He said that he learned more about himself, the world, relationships, money, everything you could think of in that year than he had in his entire life. This was his therapy. He reliazed that he wanted to help people realize their full potential. He is currently a professional life-coach, charging $200.00 an hour no less, but the work he does is a direct result of his own inner findings.

His story was very inspirational, and as I experience different levels of depression in my life, or whenever anyone feels this way, we must realize that we are the only ones who can change it. We have to be active in the pursuit of happiness. This has been extremely hard for me to understand, relying on other people and substance to make me happy.

In order to become an individual, we have to find ways to be happy within. I think as young adults, it is one of the hardest things to try to stand alone, because we don’t trust ourselves yet. We don’t truly believe in our abilities, we second guess ourselves and discover fault much more than sucess.

Even as I write this, I know it is going to be much harder to do than I think right now. Being an individual is necessary because it allows us to develop better and more personal relationships, being an individual is not easy.

I have learned so much about myself in the past four months. Things I want to change, things I need to change, yet I have discovered strength when it mattered the most.

My communcations class aided in these discoveries, and I know I will be able to stand alone when I need to the most.