Over the past few weeks, I feel like I've had a bit of a life-changing period in my life. Nothing extraordinary, I suppose, but enough to make me feel like something important has happened. I don't think that anything necessarily set off this off (ooo, ending sentences with prepositions), which is kind of odd. I just felt... overwhelmed. And I just kind of all of a sudden decided that I'm just... DONE with my life being stressful. I'd say that more than half of the stress in my life is self-inflicted, which just seems silly now. I'm not going to sweat the small stuff anymore. It's going to take a lot a LOT of work on my part but... I want to do it. And the rest of the stress in my life... the stress inflicted by people other than myself... well, they're not really worth the hassle, are they? Why should I continue to allow people into my life that do nothing but cause me headaches and heartaches? It sounds a little dramatic and a little cold-hearted but I'm not going to cut people out of my life forever. I don't have it in me to do that. I'm not good at just cutting people out of my life. But I'm not going to allow people who do nothing but bring me down CONTINUE to do so. It's going to be incredibly hard, I'm afraid. And I hope I'm strong enough to do it successfully. I have to, for my sanity. Maybe for once I'll put my peace of mind before my loyalty to some friendships. I don't have the time or the energy anymore to be brought down by others anymore. And I definitely don't have the time or the energy to be brought down by myself. So my summer/fall/forever resolution to myself has officially started... to not let myself fear what MIGHT happen, and to not allow others to stress me out, either.