In response to Kevin Markley's Weekly Letter

I was given the assignment to face an issue or challenge that I have been faced with head on and in response, explain what I learned from this process.

First of all, I would like to state that I thoroughly enjoyed this weekly letter and may or may not have read over it a couple of times. I am even more pleased by this assignment given. Yes, it is similar to taking a leap of faith and whether I fall and hurt myself or land gracefully I must record what I personally learn. But at the end of the day no matter how much I may fear completing this assignment, homework is homework and thus I had to be up for the challenge in order to truly experience what Mr. Markley would have liked me to.

I started by reflecting on the challenges that I am faced with in order to select a perfect mountain to climb and overcome. I decided on something simple but utterly humiliating that I could not face something like this regularly. Therefore, I decided to overcome my slight embarrassment and stare the issue in the eyes. This issue being bonding, or lack thereof.

To further explain, I have a younger sister, Becca. She is 3 years younger than myself and besides our exchanges in the hallways of our home and laughs at family outings we have never really gotten to know each other, talk to each other, honestly learn who one another are. Now, you may be thinking- so your fear is of your baby sister? What a joke! That's no fear! Well, on the contrary it is. I wanted to established a chain/bonding of friendship between my sister and I. While yes she is my sister, I wanted to make a friend by choice.

To be honest, what terrified me most was my inability have established this bond already. But my mind was set this fateful Saturday, I would make a friend. And not just any friend, but a friend that I will no doubt have for life.

We decided to spend a day in Santa Monica. We got lunch, talked, shopped, talked, took pictures, talked and talked a bit more. I learned three important things in specific within the plethora of important lessons on Saturday.
1) My sister is an extremely talented person who shares many similar traits and quirks as myself
2) I really like tomato soup (never tried it and ps she liked it to!)
3) By the 5th effortless conversation I realized this friendship was going to be tremendously easy as well as make our lives less irritable with each other as sisters

So what can I take away from this? Simply, my sister is an awesome friend who I am lucky to have and cannot believe it took me this long to reach out to her. Broadly, even the smallest fears that prevent me from experience/friendship/knowledge/memories are never worth stopping me and will never be big enough to stand in my way.

I hope that answered the question, it sure as heck benefitted myself! Thanks for reading this Blogging By Talia. I would now like to pass on the challenge, go ahead, try it! It will 100% be worth it.