Car rides are where the best conversations happen.

UGH. SUNDAY NIGHT.  I just got back from Northern Virginia, visiting the honey.  i could write pages and pages of nauseating detail about how much I loved my weekend.  But, alas, I am back at school and need to get focused to finish up the next week really strongly.  I drove back down with my friend Holly.  The trip back was nice because we talked the whole time; getting my mind off of Omar, and strengthening my friendship with a great girl.  She is one of those friends that lifts you up and makes you realize your selfworth.  Holly is truely a free spirit and grabs life by the horns.  She said to me in the car, "you should do something everyday that scares you."  Advice like that makes people end up in the hospital.  Or, It could make you realize that so often we strive to just be safe.  We like the safety of our comfort zone and often find ourselves settling to maintain security.  Fuck that.  Not to say that stabililty isn't great, but too much of it is just boring.   Another such conversation occured this weekend when i was driving with Youseff.  I asked him how he got into real estate, as we were driving home in his REALLY fancy mercedes.  It all boiled down to taking a risk.  He could have stayed in his secure job, but instead, he put his trust in his family, God, and himself.  By taking a risk, he has reaped incredible rewards.  Time to do some risk taking of my own.  I need to start asking myself, what are some of those things that i want to do, that i'm just too scared of?  What if I just tried?  What if I tried?