So I've always been the optimistic type that could see potential in the worst of people or would give second chances to someone who shows evidence of being reformed.
Yet, is it best to always see the glass half full or is there times when its neccessary to see the glass half empty?

When I was growing up my Aunt raised me and I remember her being the most pessimistic person. One report card day I said " I got 2 B's, an A, and 2 C's and she automatically wanted to know what classes I got my lowest grades in. She always focused in the bad news....she could always tell you what a persons weaknesses were a lot quicker than she could tell you their strengths. Because I noticed this when I became a teenager, I refused to view people that way. I was always told that I was "slow and that I daydreamed too much." I would set aside time throughout the day to just stare out the window and daydream. Aunt Evonne didn't like that I would zone out into my own little world and she began to tell me I had a "mental problem."

As I started high school I started to believe what she said about me....I started to believe I was dumb. Aunt Evonne even had my sister believing I'd never graduate from high school. Which is kind of strange because I was never in special education classes. However I would leave school early (skipping class) hanging out with the wrong friends and they just lost hope for me. Aunt Evonne even told me I wasn't college material. Yet, I graduated from high school at the age of 17 and I was accepted into a 4 yr university here in Texas. I began to reject the negative things that were said about me and gained a new perspective of myself. it worked for me because I ended up landing a nice job and getting my own place and turning into a christian. I'm the only female of all my cousins that hasn't had children out of wedlock and hasn't gotten hooked on drugs, because my relationship w\ Christ helped change my mindset not to believe how man saw me as the half empty cup....but to see myself as what the word of God says my life could be.
So now I view things in life with hope as though the glass is half full. I don't crumble under the weight of lifes burdens. Now of course I do realize that there are times when its neccessary to be more of a realist than a optimist. Yet, I will have a balance that still hopes for the best with anyone or any circumstance.

I am the person whose father committed crimes for a living and now he has life in prison.

I am the woman who grew up without a mother because she passed away when I was just a toddler.

I am the woman that statistic's say I should be a drug addict or a criminal by now.

I am the 26 year old virgin, whose never been in prison and never been convicted of a felony.

I am the woman who always wanted to experience being drunk, but never did.

I am the woman who wondered what smoking would be like, but has never smoked ciggerettes.

I am the inexperienced one who didn't get my drivers license till I was 24 years old.

I am the one who was raised by an over protective aunt and uncle, who I'm so thankful for today.

I'm the woman who didn't grow up in a christian household, yet I decided to be baptized at age 18 at a christian assembly during my freshman year of college.

I am the person who began to study about Christ and started to pray daily.

I am the woman who began to experience God changing my heart.

I am the woman who had unforgiveness, strife, wrath, fear and impatience in her heart, but I don't anymore.

I am the woman that God has freed from these inner struggles.

I am the woman who was anti social and didn't trust people who I felt would hurt me.

I am the woman who became friendly after I began to trust God with my life and no longer allowed peoples actions to have any power over me to bother me.

I am the person who befriends, loners and people from all walks of life.

I am the friend who shows you love even whn your trying to be unlovable.

I am the woman who is desiring to budget my finances better.

I am the woman that has chosen not to date though I have met great guys.

I am the celibate sister who is focused on serving God and the community while finishing her college degree.

I am the daydreamer who thirst for travel and mission trips overseas.

I am that friend you make that try to get rid of but I'm still there, getting you gifts and showing I still care.

I am the person who crys and smiles when I read hallmark cards

I am the woman who wants a family someday.

I am the poetry lover, the red velvet crumb snatcher, the Christ fanatic, the hopeless romantic, the conversationalist when others get quiet, the truth speaker, the sentimental weeper, the family embracer, the no facial expression maker when others try to bring me down, the forgiver of those who have hurt me, and the admirer of God who breathed life into everything we now see.