Hey guys! (for those of you still tuning in...) I know it's been a while, but I've FINALLY returned with another peak into the twisty-turny mind that is yours truly. I have lots of ideas of stuff I want to talk about it's just putting those ideas into the right words, you know? I'm sure you writers out there understand. Haha. So. I hope you guys have been well and had a safe Labor Day last week. Oh! Also school started for me! I've started my major classes and am taking classes like 2-D Design and Drawing 1. And Art History. And classes like that. This school's art department is incredible and has some amazing talent in it, not including myself. My stuff is okay, but everyone else's work is just stellar.
So last week for Labor Day, my family and I visited Orlando, Florida to exercise our season passes to Universal Studios. Besides being completely drenched in the mandatory daily 15-minute torrential downpour Florida seems to NEED, then being forced to sit in an air-conditioned Bubba Gump restaurant for over an hour, it was a completely wonderful experience! I finally got to see the new addition to the Harry Potter universe: Diagon Alley and folks. It was absolutely incredible. So. Much. Detail. Into EVERYTHING. I didn't get to ride the new Gringotts ride but... NEXT TIME.
Being in Orlando also meant plenty of time to sit in traffic. (In fact Ms. Cindy Davis and I traveled about 12 miles in the course of 50 MINUTES trying to get to Downtown Disney.) Coming to a really large city, such as Orlando and going to theme parks really makes me realize just how many people there are in the world. And I know that's a fairly gross understatement. 'Duh, Hailey. There's 7 billion people in the world.' Yeah I know, but 7 billion is the kind of number that doesn't really seem real until you see what just 100,000 people looks like. (Spoiler: it's a LOT of people.) I come from a really small town where I know just about everybody and I go to school in a fairly small town. College was a bit of an eye opener to me because I found that everyday, I never saw the same face twice. And to others I am that same passing face that they see walking around on campus. They know nothing about me: my upbringing, my family, my circumstances, and I don't know anything about them. But coming to a huge city such as Orlando where there are hundreds of thousands of people - FAMILIES sometimes of 15 to 20 people - are visiting places like Disney World and Universal Studios. Then there are the people that actually live this HUGE city. There's always a line for everything in this town: traffic, restaurants, rides, even the BATHROOM. I'm not complaining; with this many people crammed into one city, there are bound to be lines. Here I am sitting in bumper to bumper traffic with my family of four visiting Orlando for Labor Day. My parents are happily married, my sister is a sophomore in high school and I'm a sophomore in college. That's our story. What about these other thousands of cars and the people inside them? Is this their first time to Orlando? Are they from a different country? Are they rich or poor? How long did they have to save up to come to the bustling city of Orlando, Florida? Is their home situation a good one? Do they actually live here? Everyone here has their own life, story, family and circumstances just like me. A part of me wishes I could know these peoples' stories. I think about it all the time on interstates and highways too. I pass a car and wonder what their story is. Do they have crazy grandparents like me? Are they late to meet their parents? Or significant other? With over 7 BILLION people on this Earth, of course I won't know everyone's stories. But Heavenly Father does. He knows everything about everyone: our interests, our fears, the desires of our hearts, our past, present and future. And it completely boggles my mind. He knows me, my family, my friends and their families, these foreign families we walk past at theme parks with the screaming children, the locals, and all those people I pass on the interstate. Our Heavenly Father knows and loves every single one of us on this Earth. Everyone how has come, the 7 billion+ on this earth right now, and all those who will come. Not only does he know all of this about us, but he LOVES us ALL. Unconditionally. I marvel to know that I am loved by an all-knowing, all-loving, just God. And so are you. As for me, even though I sit here among hundreds of thousands of people and I can't know their stories, I'll still love them just the same. I'll treat them like the human beings they are.
Sorry again about the space between entries. I've been bouncing around ideas for weeks about what to post next. Thank you Cindy Davis for encouraging me to make this my next entry. Friendlies, know that you are important. No, you can't know everyone on this planet, but there are people in your life who do know and love and care for you. So know, love and care back. Take care of yourselves. And be good to yourselves, okay? You're the only you you've got. I'm off to go ponder some more.
See you next time guys!
Hailey
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