I graduated!!!

"Even though you're growing up, you should never stop having fun." -Nina Dobrev

Hello, I'm Madison! Nice to meet you.

It's been sooo long. I know.

This past week had been absolute madness. I graduated high school (finally), WOO! These last 4 years have been the hardest, but most insightful years of my life so far. I've discovered a lot about myself as well as others. I've got a long way to go, my friends, but I know that no matter what hardships there are, it will be worth it in the end. Experience and perspective. That's what it's about.

I've already talked about how excited I am to start college. It's all moving pretty fast, actually. I'm already getting a list ready for the doom room. Luckily, I've already found myself a roommate and she's amazing. All of my friends are talking about fast it all went. At first, I didn't agree, but looking at my friends who are younger than me, it really has! Last year, my friend was a freshman, and in two months, she's already going to be a junior!! That's insane for me to think about. I can't even call my freshman friend "Freshie" anymore. Ugh, I couldn't imagine being a parent watching kids grow up. I feel more emotional thinking about them than I do thinking about the fact that I'm not in high school anymore! It's pretty funny.

As for the gym, Zumba has officially become my life. I love it! I get so excited to go and I feel amazing when I leave. I don't even feel like I'm working out, but I know I am from how much I sweat, haha. Also, I love of mine is BodyFlow! I took it before, but it was such a tough workout, I didn't know if I wanted to go back for a while, but I did yesterday and I love it! It's relaxing without being too slow. The toughness of pilates mixed with the peacefulness and fluidity of tai chi and yoga. I couldn't ask for a more perfect class.

So, right now, that's all I'm doing. I'm actually pretty bored, haha. Eat, Sleep, Gym, Netflix. That'll be my cycle for the next couple of months. And also blogging. I've finally got the time again. Oh, and before I forgot: I almost got hypnotized!!! I got called up, but it didn't work on me and a lot of other people. I'm pretty bummed out about it, but I'm determined for it to work on me one day! I'm not giving up! Mwahahaha!

There wasn't much of anything to be learned from this post, except what I've been up to, but here's a couple of things my BodyFlow instructor told our class yesterday.

1.) Don't even let anyone take your peace.
2.) "No" is a full sentence.
Thanks, Krys.

-mad

Myself and I

"The value of life can be measured by how many times your soul has been deeply stirred." -Soichiro Honda

For probably over 5 years now, the 42 Ideals of Ma'at has been hanging on my fridge. I've read them a number of times, I've nodded and taken a few of them into consideration, but I've haven't thought about which I really value. Since I am on a journey, I want to do that today. Going through some of the ideals, I thought about which ones I valued most and I made three groups: What I Have, What I Want, and Most Valuable. I chose 5 ideals, organized them into my categories, and I'm challenging myself to really thing about why I value these ideals so much. This is what I came up with...

Hatha Yoga & Rachel Brathen

"The best way to predict the future is to create it." -Abraham Lincoln

Over the weekend, I joined a gym for the first time! I'm super excited and, even though I've already highlighted every class I want to take, I can't stop looking at this month's schedule! Who knew there were so many kinds of Zumba? One class that I can barely wait for is my first yoga class. It's called Hatha Yoga. I knew already that there were many types of yoga, but I had no idea what this was, so I looked it up. According to this article by Ann Pizer on About.com, "These days, hatha is most often used to describe gentle, basic classes with no flow between poses. A hatha class will likely be a slow-paced stretching class with some simple breathing exercises and perhaps seated meditation." I will admit, I'm a little turned off by how slow I'm expecting it to be, but I am highly highly inflexible (I can't even touch my toes! How sad is that?) and I want to get comfortable with yoga before stepping up to Vinyasa.