Have you ever sat down and really thought about all the people you have come across in your life and do any of them stand out, is there people that no matter how much time has past, you will always remember the things they have taught you? I am a true believer that there are "teachers" that are placed into our lives in moments of need and in times when we ourselves are unaware of how lost we have become. These people are truly angels placed in our path to guide us through life and if we listen, really listen we can find that the power that achieving our 'dream' life has always been within. I can remember the first person that changed the way I saw the world and how I fit into it. She was my grade school librarian and a dear friend of my mothers, she gave me a place to escape to, when I needed to retreat from the bitterness of the world. She let me get lost in the library surrounded by stories of strong heroines, valiant knights and stories of triumph. Never letting me feel weird or different because I was an old soul, instead she nurtured and taught me that what made me different is what made me, me. With that knowledge I was able to let the sting of losing friends and not being 'fun enough' roll off my shoulders. I was given the power to not let the world around me crush me because I wasn't that rowdy, mischievous and rule breaking kid, that the kids around me wanted me to be, I may have spent many a lunch period in the library reading books or having wonderful conversations with this amazing angel that I was so fortunate to know. As I reached high school I had gone through many ups and downs of life and was slowly starting to lose myself. I started becoming like the people around me and before I knew it I didn't recognize the girl staring back at me. That is when my next angel came into my life, in the form of my tenth grade English teacher. She to this day is someone I think about regularly, because she helped me more than she will ever realize. She helped me find myself again, giving me the strength to overcome the bullying of my weight and to give me the outlet of writing, encourging me that there was a writer inside me and if I tapped into her, I could do anything, because that was my gift, that was  the way I could truly express myself, it was through my written words that I could finally tell my story. Even if I was the only one that would ever read it. I had the power to write my own story, I could finally express my feelings, vent about life's hardships and how I really felt about them. She also became my guide to finding my faith again, making me see that real love does exist and is made stronger with the solid foundation of faith. I am so grateful to her for helping me come out of my high school years alive and with a fire ignited in my soul. Life after high school was one of the most fun and devastating times in my life I made friends I thought I would have for life. I made mistakes that led me to be in an abusive relationship but the one person that I will forever be grateful to is an incredibly strong and vibrant person I am honored to call my 'adopted' big sister, she become my only friend at this time in my life that stuck with me and gave my ass the push I needed to leave my toxic relationship and to stay away. She has always been that person who knows me, more than I even knew myself and she pushed me to find the inner warrior that was always there, but I forgot I had. Once I found that inner strength and broke free I focused on rebuilding the pieces of my life that had broken and rebuilding them in a way that they would not break again. I reached the point that I found myself in Cosmetology school and there I met two people that I hope will always be apart of my life and I met one who was the first person to sit me down and ask me what I wanted out of my life not what I wished I could do but what I would do. She told me "I deserved to have all I wanted and I deserved to be loved unconditionally", that resinated in me I did deserve to have that happiness no matter what, I do deserve to have and be loved. Even though I only knew her for a short time her words would help me through the toughest time in my life and allowed me to go on a journey of a lifetime. From that moment on life has been a series of ups and downs, remembering to love myself, realizing that death changes everything but you can and will feel normal again and finally finding my way back to my passion of health and healing people. As I sit in my Medical Assistant classroom, sitting before me is my newest angel, sent to invoke the final lesson I've been shown throughout my lifetime but it never fully clicked. He told us the secret to life, more importantly the secret to a successful life. I have my renewed faith in the power I have always had within, I know that with this new affirmation of "follow what you think about", I can turn my life around and I will have all that I need in life by being positive and continuing to be the change I want to see in the world. Life is a beautiful struggle but by not focusing on the negative and seeing the beauty that is in the world around you, you begin to see that seeing and appreciating the positive blessing in your life will bring in positivity. I am truly grateful to the many teachers/angels I have come across in my life, without them I would not have grown into the person I am and will become. Life is truly a beautiful thing and it's our duty to fill the world with love and positivity and not fall into to the easy rut that is negativity.