My entire life I have been the center of attention. I know that sentence makes me cringe too, but its true! As the youngest daughter I was always singing, dancing, being a flower girl, and generally made things about myself. Once I began college however, I quickly realized that sometimes it is ok and necessary to allow yourself to fade into the background a bit. Just a bit. I have always been a talker. When I was little my parents would joke that I would never be kidnapped because whoever took me would send me back once I started talking to them. I was always the one at family parties sitting with the older relatives that no one wanted to converse with. I guess I have just always had a lot to say. Hence my starting to write a blog. It’s easy to get everything out of my head and type it all out. In college, I met my best friend Becky. She was so different from me. I came to college with pink everything, talked to everyone and made friends very easily. She was shy, preferred to play on the computer, and was afraid to talk to anyone. As roommates, it would be a challenge to build a friendship in the beginning. We were so opposite of each other but our personalities helped bring out different sides of the other one. We were both Christians, attending a Christian college, but we had been raised very differently, or so we thought. My family had always spurred me on as the “star”. In sports, in dance, in school, whatever I did they encouraged me to the best. Sometimes too much, but that’s a blog post for a different day. Becky’s family had also wanted her to be the best, but she had a hard time seeing that in herself. Once we worked through some growing pains we became the very best of friends. We are . basically the modern Lucy and Ethel. If you don’t know this reference, please google it 🙂 We were always getting into something, having a blast and making people laugh. Everyone has been telling us that we need our own show and that we are so funny. We have so many stories from college about climbing on the roof of the library, to skinny dipping in the pond, to riding a scooter (not sober) around campus at 2am. I encouraged Becky to push the limit and live a little on the edge, while she encouraged me to tone it a bit and relax. The perfect match! 10 years later and we have both settled down a little bit, but we still talk pretty much daily. Now that we are both engaged and planning weddings we are busier than ever but I would be lost without with her friendship.
Since so many people have told us we need our own show we are going to be starting a podcase in the next few weeks. Something about millennial culture, some witty banter, reality shows, and general musings of two 29 year old young women about to get married. It will be entertaining, I promise!
I love the idea of having a creative outlet that I get to work on with one of my very best friends. Just creating a space that is all ours. A fun project just for us to be ourselves. Life is getting busier with every passing day but as I wrote about in an earlier post, I am learning to enjoy every minute. Take it all in, breath, hustle, and have fun! We only get one chance at life, better make it worth it! Ugh so cheesy but so true.
JustJessica 