day 2.

-the meaning behind your blogger name
like i explained when i first started this blog, it was easy to think of a name. embrace change has so many meanings to me. when i was younger and my parents got divorced, my father told me that things were going to change. i was only five at the time and didn't clearly understand what he meant until he wasn't living at the house anymore. i began telling myself that i hated change and wanted everything to stay the same forever. every time it came for something new (new school, new friends, new teachers, etc), i would have panic attacks, dreading what was coming next. little did i know that once i got through the first few days, everything went back to being routine and i was okay. it hit me this summer that college is right around the corner and i need to man up and deal with the fact that i will be away from home, especially if i decide to go to san fran. i told myself i need to accept change and embrace it, because change is good. change makes life interesting. change makes you the person you are today. because i had this epiphany, i decided i am getting a tattoo of a cherry blossom tree on my ribs with the japanese symbols for "embrace change". cherry blossom trees stand for rebirth, change, a new person. i am getting it on my 18th birthday when i am finally an adult, beginning a new life with college ahead of me. with change tattooed on my body, there is no way to escape it. i have to embrace it.