invite y'all table suggest great coffee nice chocolate enter interview thing love talking answering questions dear friends journey back time day-to-day life markedly today made feel enjoy enjoy mind back journey accepting time life shaping loved things enjoyed understood happy pivotal moments knew change negative claim important happened moment made pivotal speak phases speaking part moved love list project pivotal moment life back depressed claim dramatic life death continue live life living deep fight knew choice time life pivotal moment kristin wrote found claim things loved constraints place frustrated working full time university full time life work studying read entry realized needed pair glasses needed claim things good promising life needed find things made happy essence made claim things make working studying worth creating formal love list time back major life decisions impacted driven love life find setting loved started revelation therapist time started drawing tree looked time find roots drew tree made roots started listing things root things people things make happy things bring happiness connected moments started setting things loved made confident chased dreams finishing degree realizing things claiming back happy feel called cookie cutter christian decisions make heart make tick life today worse what's responsible making worse life today work hard things matter mentoring good word days things days feel worse days learning indifferent worse lens choosing good love list project stops moment longer compromise play gained you're making choices vocalize feels pure accident biggest thing learned drop reconnect easy involved class balance full time full time student learned honest simple moment refreshes move kinds things showing love list days love list things connected things community oriented accident rough forget things teaching students unique lessons teach embrace love list amazing journey community love list inspired aware moment entered space make real life based love find pursuing things found love bump road frustrating find driven things match love love bridging people love activist speak list builds words love list pushed surface things things make difference wisdom advice share give week disappointments failure important find moments drive things love find ways walk world tells find love happy independence personally found pursuing love impact people empty feeling feeling energy zapped places hold things love things love recapture life richest place darkness pair glasses things thought 