3 Year Mark

Justin and I are coming up on our 3 year mark. Boy, does it seem a whole lot longer than just 3 years!!! We started going out on July 4, 2007. It took him 3 years and 3 times asking me, but he finally got me! And I'm sure glad he never gave up. Ever since I started dating him my life just turned upside down. It's like God finally opened up my eyes. My whole life was focused on music and then Justin came along. I saw another life with him. Another path to where I wanted to go and who I wanted to be. I knew then that God had other plans for me then what I was anticipating. Everything just started to fall in place.
Even though I could see the path plainly laid out, there were some obstacles in the way. Telling my family that I wanted to drop out of college and marry a man I had only been dating for a year wasn't exactly easy. Family means a lot to me and telling them news that I knew would disappoint was heartbreaking and honestly pretty scary. Would they throw me out of the house? Would they ever talk to me again? Millions of things were running through my mind. Those were some of the hardest months in my life. But I got through them. And now here I am, living in Hawaii with my best friend I am so lucky to call my husband.
The path I took may have been hard and a different one than what most people my age take, but I have never nor will I ever regret making that decision. It reminds me of one of my favorite poems written by Robert Frost:

The Road Not Taken

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I marked the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.