Learning Life Lessons

Well you guessed it! Things did not work out for E. She didn’t get more hours nor a second job. Her and her roommate fell out over something. She had made friends with another co-worker and moved in with her. Things with E and I got very bad. Of course she wasn’t able to keep her agreement to pay me back on what I loaned her or pay her part of the cellphone bill.

I want go into all the little things that happened. There was one major thing that really hurt my heart with her. Telling an untruth to A about me and it hurt my and A’s relationship. It was something that happened that E knew I was joking about but she told it differently. Maybe she really thought I wasn’t joking but I don’t know how. She had lived with me a year and knew my character.

In the end E went to the state her sisters were living in and she is thriving now. We have spoken and apologized to each other for our parts in our disagreements. I had planned to attend her wedding last year but the trip out west didn’t work out. We still speak occasionally. Ultimately our interactions affected us both. Definitely was a major life lesson.

Some of you who are close to me now maybe thinking, “oh my didn’t your friend just move in with you?” Yes, she did but I am truly not the same person I was in 2017 or 2018. After E moved out guess what I did only a few months later? You guessed it. I took in another young lady who was in need. Guess you are thinking, “didn’t you learn your lesson the first time?”

Well A from Oregon was a different story. I met her the same place I met E. She was in a unsafe place at the time. Living with a much older boyfriend that was not treating her appropriately. She had moved from living with her mom after leaving the foster care program because she too aged out like E.

Another friend from the site moved vehicles and items across country for a living and he agreed to pick up A from Arizona and to bring her to my house. I did do things differently with A. We had a written agreement about her coming to live with me. What her responsibilities were and mine.

I really wanted to help those in need. I have always since I can remember been like this. I had been thinking about trying to start a home for those in need. Like have a separate house that would take in people then help and teach them life lessons and how to get back out in the world and make their own way successfully.

I can see now all along my journey I have been working toward my calling or mission while growing and learning life lessons. That is why we are here to grow our soul and have human experiences. Each time I have learned something from my attempt to help others. Each day I try to be a better version of the person I was the day before. I do my best to look at what each event in my life teaches me.