Every day we wake up and we get to choose who we are going to be. Every day we wake up and we get to decide if we want to be happy or sad, if we want to live in the moment or to tend to our color-coded planners. Then, each of our choices ends up stringing together, one after another. That long strand then becomes our life and our life is who we make each other up to be.

Yesterday morning, it was 8:05 a.m., and I could have decided to go back to sleep and not go to church. But instead of feeling sorry for myself, I got out of bed, made my coffee, drove to church and I chose to do something that would not only be good for me, but for my spiritual life as well.

Just like the same, my roommate got up and chose to attend church. We said our hellos and goodbyes and while we both left to our separate churches, we made our choices. Some people stayed in bed, dreaming, while we left to follow something that we are both passionate about.

I’m not saying that sleeping in is wrong, but just remember what you support today will also decide how you will see your tomorrow.

Last week was also the 15^th anniversary of 9/11 where a countless number of lives were lost. People got up, went to work, and did what they normally did as if it was any other day on September 11, 2001. But little did they know it was going to be their last.

Every 9/11 my family and I gather around the T.V. and we watch the documentaries that was showed the previous year and the year before that. Every 9/11 I cry myself to sleep because of the pain that I feel for the families that lost a loved one, a friend, a class mate, a peer, a husband, a wife, a dad, a mom, a grandma, or a grandpa, etc.

A handful of random people decided that what they wanted to do (i.e. crash the plane, cause havoc and chaos) was better than the choices of the other people that was surrounding them. An endless amount of pain was caused because people didn’t properly value the choices that they were offered. Innocent people who just wanted to do whatever it was that they set out to do that morning lost their lives including the hero’s who helped by trying to save people inside the buildings and outside.

You woke up this morning and I’m so thankful that you did. Remember that each of our days are absolutely so special. I hope you keep looking at your life with so much love and that you don’t stop following your dreams. Fly away little butterfly.