Bad Decisions Led to a Bad Week

This week has been horrible--pain every night. You see, over the weekend, I decided to be stupid and play soccer. That doesn't sound stupid, but knowing me and the above sentence, you're about to see how stupid it was. I know I'm competitive, especially with sports that I feel comfortable with, so I decided to exert myself because I haven't played soccer since Winter semester 2012. So I play and I get body checked, fall on my tailbone, hard; the force making my legs fly up and I roll along my spine to the nape of my neck.
Then Sunday. I ran up and down the stairs 15 times, which is not good for my ankle. I sprained my ankle Winter semester 2012, but it didn't quite heal right, so I've been having problems with it here. Well, running up and down the stairs inflamed my ankle.
So those were the bad decisions. Since Monday, my ankle and back have been bugging me--burning, stabbing pains--that have either been really bad separately or irritating, but mild together. Moral of the story, don't do stupid things or you'll have to pay the consequences for them.

The Roller Coaster of Life

Life is a roller coaster. Period. Life has ups and downs and times when the force is so great that even when you're moving forward, it feels like your moving backwards. This has definitely been one of those weeks. It seems like since my last post, life has been shattered, rebuilt  and shattered again, only to be rebuilt. Or, to phrase it in roller coaster terms, life has sent me through a series of hill and through a loop-the-loop before I've arrived at this point.

Last week started with me being on a high point and being able to help others solve their problems, only to have my own develop the next day...Luckily I have amazing friends who won't let the car stay at the bottom of the track. They helped me to get over the rough patch and begin going to the top of the next hill. Repeat that process once more and you have the basic idea of my week. But, like I said my week has definitely had a loop-the-loop--there was a point where my days had me going crazy, in a good way. I was spinning in circles and wouldn't calm down.

That's about it for my week. I know that it's vague this week, but if there's one thing I want to leave specifically it's this poem:

One night I had a dream--

I dreamed I was walking along the beach with the Lord 

and across the sky flashed scenes from my life. 

For each scene I noticed two sets of footprints, 

one belonged to me and the other to the Lord.

When the last scene of my life flashed before me, 

I looked back at the footprints in the sand.

I noticed that many times along the path of my life, 

there was only one set of footprints.

I also noticed that it happened at the very lowest 

and saddest times in my life. 

This really bothered me and I questioned the Lord about it. 

"Lord, you said that once I decided to follow you, 

you would walk with me all the way, 

but I have noticed that during the most troublesome times in my 

life 

there is only one set of footprints. 

"I don't understand why in times when I needed you most, 

you should leave me." 

The Lord replied, "My precious, precious child, 

I love you and I would never, never leave you 

during your times of trial and suffering. 

"When you saw only one set of footprints, 

it was then that I carried you." 

...Mary Stevenson