A New Year

So as you all know a new year is arriving! 2013! My graduation year! I am super excited because this is the year that I will pretty much have to change lifestyles. Since I am going off to college in the fall, I have to prepare myself to take that big step without my parents or family around. I still have another several months left of my senior year, but that will come to a closer fairly quick, and I won't have time to make the changes I need to in my life in order to live at school and away from home. It will definitely be hard and I'm sure I will get homesick quickly, but college is what it is all about. It is going to be an amazing experience that I am ready (or will be) to challenge. I will make friends that will become the best of friends and even maybe meet my future husband! I don't know what college will have in store for me but I know that it will make me, well, ME! Wish me luck! I love all of my followers, well the 2 that I have! Byeee
Lauren <3

Alexandria

          Alexandria is my best friend in the whole world! We both have CF and she has been my inspiration for 5 and a half years. We met on youtube and after a couple awkward video chats, we pretty much know each other's families and friends :) We have had a few sleepovers and we had our most recent one last night! We video chatted for almost 17 hours straight! That was our first video chat in 4 months! We haven't been keeping in touch very well for the past couple of months because of how busy we both are. It's my senior year of high school and she is a freshman in college, but she also is very busy with the hospital visits and keeping up with her treatments and healthcare. No one will ever know me the way she does, or will be able to make me as happy as she makes me. I owe a lot to her and I try to support her as much as I possibly can because that's what best friends do. I hope that one day we will be able to meet each other in real life once we are either cured or she gets her double lung transplant. She fights so incredibly hard to just take a breathe everyday and if I could, I would take her place in a heart beat. It has been extremely hard for me to watch her deteriorate over the past 5 years and I know what will inevitably happen sooner or later. I know that she is strong enough to hold on long enough until she is at the top of the transplant list. I only wish the best for her. I have to be positive because I know that God has her in his arms. He will do what he has to do and I trust his choice. Alex was placed on this Earth for a very important reason. That reason is to inspire everyone she meets or even sees on the street to be a better person and to be grateful for the life they live and especially the air they BREATH.  Breathing is something that too many people take for granted in this world and it is her duty to spread awareness of Cystic Fibrosis. People are dying everyday from it, so they only thing we can do now is keep our heads up and wait until it is our turn to leave this Earth and go to God, or to hopefully beat this disease and live to inspire others to as well. Alexandria is my best friend in the whole world, and I will never let her go. I don't know what I would do without her. 

Alex, I am so proud of you for making it this far.

I love you.

You and me together,

Always and forever,

Nothing can tear us apart,

You'll always be in my heart. 

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