Life's not going to stop while you figure out your next move

I don't think I have ever taken another photo with the Bruin Bear but this one is a keeper

For my dads father's day present I had my wondering boyfriend take pictures and edit them. My dad says this is the photo of the weekend and has proceeded to text it to everyone in our family. 

And as promised I'm writing the gist of Ann Meyer Dyrsdale's speech but I'll post a link of the UCLA graduation so you can check it out for yourself. (that is if anyone actually reads this if not then in 10 years when I come back to read these I can watch my graduation all over again.)

She began with how title 9 was passed the year she was suppose to attend college and was the first woman to receive a full ride athletic scholarship to none other than UCLA for basketball. Her lists of accomplishments continue to this day and you can hear it in the actually speeches should you need something to procrastinate with.

She says one thing that has helped her become so successful is stepping out of her comfort zone "I encourage you to take risks and go after your dreams. Life's not going to stop while you figure out your next move. Stay ahead of the game and just go for it. Don't worry about failure. You've just accomplished a major goal and now you'll slow down? Wait for someone to offer you your dream job? That's not reality for most of you. The key to success is finding your passion, working hard, taking risks that others are to scared to take and have faith that it will payoff. It doesn't come without fear and struggles. Even though you are simply trying to follow your dreams others might try to tear you down, but as John Wooden says fear of failure is the greatest failure of all. Have the courage to stand outside your comfort zone. Life appears easy and simple to some people. Life just seems good to those people who breeze through life because they are doing what they love, working hard, taking chances making sacrifices and willing to fail in order to succeed. It's not always going to workout but passion to succeed will never fail you. There are times you be defeated..." Mrs. Drysdale gives an example of the American people persevering like after the Boston bombing the tornadoes in Oklahoma and fires in Denver. She highlights how we overcome with the help from family and friends and in some cases perfect strangers. She tells us to look around Pauly Pavilion at all the family and friends the people who supported us, maybe paid for school or fed us but they got us through college somehow and we wouldn't have been here without their help. 

She continues "Show appreciation to your team" and quotes John Wooden one last time "It's amazing what can get accomplished when nobody cares who gets the credit."

Check out the whole thing if you're bored, I believe her speech is around 1:10:00

UCLA Graduation

Upon Graduation

Now I realize that I actually graduated 6 months ago but to appease my fabulous father I decided to walk at the commencement ceremony as his Father's Day gift. I know I'm such a generous daughter. Nevertheless I can tell he was pretty proud and that whole shabang kind of made me graduating real to him I suppose. I think I probably would have regretted not walking so I'm glad I finally decided to.  Reasons why I was debating against walking? Well for starters I was suppose to be living in Las Vegas working at the hottest night club or day club however I failed to realize that to Vegas standards I'm obese and lack the necessary qualifications i.e. giant fake boobs. Needless to say I didn't get hired, and if you promise not to tell my best friend who I was going to move with I'll let you in on a secret...I didn't really try to get another job after my appearance awakening and rejection. I was very torn as to what to do. This silly boy who I had liked then didn't like etc (you know the age old story I don't need to repeat it) had decided he did like me but moving to Vegas was kind of a deal breaker. Not that he would stop liking me but we didn't want to do a long distance relationship especially if one of us would be partying and getting rowdy up in Vegas. FYI I'm more of the home body type despite what people may think and the title of this blog. I've grown up and put those days behind me? Sort of...Now I just do wild and crazy things with my boo thang by my side. In honesty he is probably the main instigator for my crazy behavior now.  But I digress back to reasons why I didn't want to walk. Reason 2 I felt a huge disconnect from the whole campus. Although I was in a sorority and love my beautiful campus I hadn't talked to my sisters or been to the campus in those 6 months. Going back felt strange like it wasn't my campus anymore. Who would I walk with and sit by. And while going through the whole process I did feel this way. I found my sisters to take pictures with and walk with and laugh at all the silly people with (by silly I mean a. funny looking or b. their stupidity) but I still felt out of the loop.

But nevertheless I'm glad I walked I think had I not it would have been just one more thing to add to the list of things I missed out on in college. I'll be posting Ann Meyer Drysdale's speech soon, because it was very inspirational to me so stay tuned for that!