Restart and let the adventure begin again...

So the title on this one is there or a reason,it also happens to be the title of my favorite (for now) playlist i have on spotify.

(Ive talked about most of this before but i feel that now i need to repeat and clarify to get points of where im at now across)

My reason for that sentence that frame of mind pretty much started this last summer. My life had been pretty "OK" for quite a while truly mediocre nothing really exciting happening. running i felt like was a loss and the only reason i was doing it was for the pure joy of it which to be honest is what i always should have been doing instead of just once and awhile but then i pooped out for running.
i kinda mentally lost it after my sophomore year and never really pulled it back together the rest of the way. When all is said and done, yes im satisfied with my running career,yes i will miss it but when it comes down to it i left nothing.i gave my all and thats all that really ever maters.

the rest of my life kinda fell to kapooy after well i dunno it was like a steady degradation with various punctuations of good times i let myself get too caught up in girls and running and kinda forgot to have fun,it was all stress all the time be it girls crazy classes running driving life all of it. life was just stressful. i would go hang out with my buddies every so often go out and just be stupid you know have fun be teenagers like we are supposed to but even then i always felt like i was somewhere else distracted and whatnot then winter came along i kinda got distanced from most of my friends and made questionable choices (as per my thoughts lol) with the company i spent time with,good people just not the most uplifting and smart for me.

Things kinda started turning around and life was stabilizing then. 1/14/12 jeepy. freaking crappy night it was already a pretty crappy night then the accident happend.no freaking warning it was just ok and then...not bang right into the other car and my jeepy my friend (yes i called it my friend it really was cuz it was like an extension of me,it was my baby and it gave me a connection to a grandma i love and miss) but yeah that sucked and brought my life down.

I was contained and stuck in my house for i dont even know how long with nice snow outside that i wasnt supposed to play in (i did once before the concussion hit lol) thennnnnn the concussion hit.
greatly simplified and to the point.LIFE SUCKD lol really though i laugh now but i was soooooo miserable constant headaches no real physical activity and every time i tried it made it so freaking bad. They say recovery takes time and you cant speed it up and i agree now.to a degree. when it came to track i wasnt going to screw up my season lots of positive thinking and luck let me run.
Life got back to. well not normal but better,i was back in school but not very much, i was back in running but super cautious about it.
the thing that really sucked was that my best friend also happend to be my biggest source of stress in life so being around her or talking to her drained me. heck life in general drained me more than usual but stress took more of a toll than usual. and so life went on. it was rocky but life went on.

Fast forward just before graduation.
Life is stable
Yoga helped me get on my feet and feel normal, physically mentally and mostly emotionally lol
Friends stood by me and holy crap the old friends who i went too long without contact with are life savers.

Summer.
DANG. like seriously dang this summer was... interesting it was like nothing before and yet...familiar and good.
I reconnected with old friends,made new starts with some and made new friends that i never saw coming.

Fireworks.
My first job of the summer i got because of my cousin Erin and it was definitely a good experience, i got to know her better and be friends with her which is really good now because it gives me a new friend here in rexburg to have someone to talk to and spend time with, family is great =)
the job itself was a blast...see punny =) it was a ton of fun and i worked with some characters
i was in olympia all but weekends and that put some stress on friendships but oddly enough that was the week that mara and i reconnected and i had one of my best friends back in my life and it was so good,to have someone there in my life to listen and just be a friend,it had been a while since i had a no stress relationship with a friend not worried about if they were pissed or if they liked me or if they were using me just knowing that we both cared about each others problems and were there for each other.

Airport.
One day at church james told me about a job he had at the airport so i looked into it got the papers together and got my interview. got the job on the spot and hoooorah i had a job close to home starting the following monday.
it was work it killed my life but it was good i loved it. the management could be stressfull but it was nice. the downside was that i was going to miss my family reunion
So training begins and it sucks sitting in a classroom all day annnnnd then we get to the end of the week and  mom and dad had left already i had no idea if i would be at work the next week and was living each day expecting a phone call telling me the next day was my first day of work.
that went on till wednesday or thursday. then i got a call telling me i didnt have work till monday. frustrating.
but all in all while im frustrated and sad that i didnt get to be with my family it was an amazing week and it was the week that made the rest of my summer acceptable.
i got to spend time with all my friends i got to go run i got to have fun and relax and be happy. it was a nice change. one week of peace and happy in the midst of being too busy to breathe.
my favorite nights by far were the first with mara when we got to go to the movies and then walk around for a bit at the lake just talking about life and everything then the second night lol freaking awesome i havnt gotten to spend time with brendan in freaking forever and both of us were always too busy but i pretty much go back from mutual and spent the night watching movies and doing stupid guy things like the 12 can challenge it was just good and fun to have my best friend back and really reconnect for real after so many years of being friends. i feel like since sophomore year weve only really gotten to be around each other a few times every year. and this was good because we both knew with our jobs and me leaving for school that we wouldnt get very much time before my mission.
so that was my week of relaxing,movies and friends.soccer games.
and then work started. the airport was an excellent experience hard work, freaking hard work but i loved it. it was fun and i had a mostly good experience once i got over my cold half way through. freaking got a cold and swapped crews at the same time so i was useless and grouchy when i got pulled from a group of guys that i got along with really well.
fast forward.end of the summer.friends leaving college approaching work over.
wisdom teeth out.

College.

as i said this was the summer.this was it.

restart and let the adventure begin again.
graduation was the restart button and this summer was the kick start to the new beginning.

My life gets its second chance its new beginning.
restart and let the adventure begin again.

School.
My first stretch of life on my own, yes i depend on my parents and everything but im still on my own and having to deal with things myself and learn how to be my own person being responsible and making choices.
a whole new set of friends and situations.its going to be hard but all the same .
bring it on.its time to start this new adventure.
restart and let the adventure begin...I WILL SURVIVE!
-EPJ