Sweet Emotion
by Holli Foster
(Posted 3/3/2010 10:28 am)
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by Holli Foster
(Posted 3/3/2010 10:28 am)
Opinion. Opinion can be defined as a personal view, attitude, or appraisal; a belief or judgment that rests on grounds insufficient to produce complete certainty. When I began writing this column I was so excited because I can finally express my inner monologue, or lack thereof, to the rest of the world.
If I am excited I can announce it right here. If I am happy I can express it right here. If I am angry I can blast the individual that provoked me right here. After all I am an emotional girl and sometimes, girl or not, our emotions get the best of us.
For me, this weekend was full of emotion. Friday was the first day of the Regional Basketball Tournament for the Falls City Beaverettes. My sister plays, she loves the game, and though I am not very sporty, I love my sister and have become very emotional about the game.
Having a cheerleader background, which is hard to overcome, I love to cheer for the girls. Having family on the court, I tend to yell at the refs. When the girls lost, we all lost. It was an emotional afternoon.
The kind of support this community brings to a UIL event is astounding. I always said my senior class was small but we were like a big family. Not one team Falls City has faced over these last three weeks came close to bringing the amount of fans we had cheering in the stands. That is something instilled in us from a very early age, and today I am so proud to be a part of it.
Saturday I was reunited with four of my very best friends from high school. It was emotional. There was a 30th birthday to celebrate and it was the first time we have all been together since…we could not remember when.
Something in my soul feels warmer to know these ties have outlasted time, distance, and life in general. For me, divorce was a sobering experience. It has taught me not to take these experiences for granted. These moments when your childhood meets adulthood, and though things have changed there is a constant.
I drove home late Saturday night because I promised my children I would take them out for breakfast on Sunday morning. Yes I slipped into bed around 2, yes my babies were wide awake a little before 8 and yes, I am a woman of my word so we went to breakfast.
It just so happened we bought kites the day before and Sunday turned out to be a beautiful day for flying them. We went over to my parents horse pasture and basked in the beautiful day. There was also some horseback riding. And in the sunlight of a beautiful Sunday afternoon I realized something.
These are the moments that define my life. These people, from the community as a whole to my children who do not realize the impact they have on my life every day; they have contributed to my attitude, my personal view, or what one might call an opinion.
If I choose to focus on the negative emotions, I might miss out on these special moments that give me an opinion that surpasses judgment. It is easy to let your emotions get the best of you and for the more difficult past moments eat away at the present.
It is not always easy to stay positive, but I am going to try, because if I do it is much easier to appreciate these moments that I am quite certain will be with me forever. Those are the emotions I hope always get the best of me.
