Life's Changes

Sometimes Heavenly Father has a different plan for you than you had anticipated.

Growing up I had such high goals and aspirations. At first, I was going to graduate high school, attend The Juilliard School in New York and major in piano performance, then marry my husband in the Mesa, AZ temple. To top it all off, I would perform in Carnegie Hall with my family and husband sitting in the front row. Life couldn't get better.

Once reality hit and some health issues got in the way, things shifted. I then focused my time on photography. I first got into it when I decided to take a photography class in high school because nothing else seemed like fun. I learned how to use a film camera and how to develop my own film. To this day, I WILL have a dark room once we buy a house. No questions. Anywho, I digress. Once I felt like I mastered film, which I know I was far from mastering, I stole...I mean borrowed my grandpa's digital camera. What a beauty that was. After all, he's an electronic junkie, so he had PLENTY to go around. I was sure this is what I was going to do with my life. Heck, I even got one step closer to this goal of being a professional photographer and having my own business, titled Shooting Star Photography. I had been accepted into Hallmark Institute of Photography in MA.  Then reality sunk in again, when I had to come up with $70k. So then I settled for MCC.

Life then took yet another turn. I moved up to Utah. A year and a half later, I met the man of my dreams. My husband is the complete opposite of what I wanted to marry when I was 8. But do you know what? What did I know when I was 8. Apparently I knew all the wrong things, aside from getting baptized. My husband is everything I didn't want when I was younger. But he is everything I need now. My wedding ring isn't anything I had imagined wanting. I grew up knowing I would have a princess cute diamond. But when I saw my ring, a cushion cut green amethyst, no other ring I looked at would surpass it.

Sometimes things don't go as planned. They might not be what you want, or see yourself wanting. But a lot of the time it's for the better.

“So take the good with the bad, smile with the sad, love what you got, remember what you had, always forgive but never forget, learn from your mistakes but never regret. People change, things go wrong, but just remember life goes on." -Unknown