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I have been waiting for the day that I get to introduce to you driver Kaylee and that day is finally here. It definitely needed to wait a few weeks for you all to get to know me and understand that I am a pretty chill and nonchalant chick. But you see, driver Kaylee is the total opposite. She is a crazy bitch with an extreme amount of road rage. I could probably credit that to being born and raised in Miami. All I could tell you about Miami drivers is that everything you hear about them is one thousand percent true. Personally, I would consider myself one of the more calm cool and collect ones. However, you move that girl to Ann Arbor, Michigan and that chick looks like she learned how to drive on GTA. Sometimes, I think I am getting better and then I try to drive on campus, where we have the smartest students but not the smartest people, and I lose it all over again.

I drive a Mustang and not that it is a part of my identity whatsoever, but it matches my personality so perfectly, and those who know me understand and totally agree. However, driver Kaylee and her Mustang are simply used as a reference for the topic today. The analogy is going to be perfect, especially since it is as hard as just trying to go the speed limit. But since Michigan got its very first snow yesterday, which I completely forgot how to drive in, I figured there was no better time to talk to you all about being present and staying present.

So here it goes…

I wouldn’t exactly consider myself to be your typical Mustang driver. I don’t race or go on sport mode+, at least not all the time. But I do like to get to places quicker than usual, especially since I always find a way to leave my house late. I also like to occasionally go on the highway, just because, and really air it out. The fast lane is my happy place, but I go from 0 to 100 emotionally in seconds when somebody cuts me off and forces me to go slow. So now let’s add snow into that factor, and you can forget all about the need for speed.

It truly is so crazy how much this driving analogy is actually so accurate with my personality. I am beyond impatient, and I believe the hardest thing for me to do on a daily basis is stay present. So it really comes as no surprise to me that the next hardest thing is to drive the speed limit. However, there are so many favorable things about driving the speed limit that make it absolutely wild. I mean the first obvious one is for your safety. Let’s start looking at that from a life perspective though. Looking forward and planning future events bring you stress and anxiety, and continuing to live in the past is only going to leave you depressed. I know that is something you have probably heard a bunch of times, but when are you going to just stop hearing it and start actually applying it?

I am in the very same boat and trust this is something I heavily struggle with. My patience was truly tested during my gap year, specifically speaking of the first half of leaving school and softball. Then if my patience wasn’t tested enough, my surgery is something I am currently still dealing with and I am almost an entire year post-op. Clearly, I didn’t think it would be this long but it is just something I have come to understand is just going to be at its own pace. Nevertheless, about two months after my surgery, the reality was really settling in of how slow I will have to be moving for a while. This is where I started to see the beauty of going the speed limit. Mainly speaking about life here. I can assure you the speed I lost in my legs, I made up for it in my car. Now with Michigan weather though, I get to drive 15 mph tops and see all the trees and snow and buildings. It is beautiful, I will admit, especially when I am running on time.

But you see, the beauty is in the day-to-day. The beauty is living every single day. The beauty is getting to make memories with people you love and adore. The beauty is the unexpected people you meet. The beauty is making it through days you never thought you could. The beauty is trying something you would have never seen yourself doing. The beauty is learning more about who you are and how amazing that person is. The beauty is in the journey. You will get to that destination eventually. Or maybe you will end up at a different one instead. But to get there, you have to start living and living in the now.

As always God bless you all and have a wonderful week.

xoxo,

Kroddyrich 💋