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I don’t really like to go into the full details of my own personal “hard times”, I mean, we’ve all had hard times it’s a part of life. I guess they are the things that define us as people, how we get through them, how they change us or improve us, make us stronger or weaker. I have had to deal with some very hard times. I lost my brother, who was truly my best friend, to a very, very long battle with cirrhosis of the liver and alcoholism. I held his hand while he left this earth. I found my father in the nick of time after a suicide attempt once when he lost his job and then again after he felt he couldn’t find his place in this world this past October. I lost my house and I lost my brother’s house. I lived through all these hard times while trying to go to college, to be the first in my family to get a degree. I was in and out of school, dropping classes and complete semesters just to trying to attend to these obstacles in my life. I kept going, saying, as soon as I was done with school, I would deal with it all. I finally graduated from ASU this past December. Don’t get me wrong, I may have more anxieties, stresses and fears than I did in my earlier years, but I don’t think I have had it any worse than anyone else; these were just the battles I had to make it through in my own life. I am happy today, I am proud that despite everything, I was able to accomplish the things that some people in my situation may have just given up on, chalked it up to something that just wasn’t supposed to be. I may not have been a straight A student, but I did it.
You ask why I think I deserve a free float. It’s not that I think I deserve it above anyone else, surely these days we all deserve one. I had the pleasure of being able to afford one float at your spa through groupon and it was the first time, in a long time, I felt relief, it was the first time I remember in such a long time sleeping (after I got home) so care free. I made a promise to myself that I after I was done with school, I would take care of me. It would just be nice to have a little piece of that feeling again, until I can afford to float whenever I need it.
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