GUEST BLOG BY SARA: The Choices You Make....

"Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years."~ Richard Bach


For today's guest blog Friday, we have my dear friend, Sara! I usually explain how I met my guest blogger, but Sara's whole blog is about that, so I'll leave that part out. I will say Sara is one of my favorite people....she's funny and beautiful and I love her to death! When our group of girls gets together, you just never know what is going to happen! We've been through a lot...good and bad.... but she's so sweet and positive and just all round great!

So.....here's Sara!

Well when Tiff asked me to do a guest blog I was very excited, but unsure of what I would write about. Now I’m not the type of person that has all this great advice to give, or is good at writing interesting stories, so this is quite a challenge for me. With that I have racked my brain all week trying to decide what to write about, and I have decided to share my first encounter with Tiff.

Tiff and I didn’t grow up together, go to high school together, and if it wouldn’t have been for my BFF’s boyfriend we would have never met. You see Tiff attended a Junior College in Kansas and I attended a Junior College in Oklahoma and somehow our paths crossed and she will be in my life forever. Since growing up, moving out of the house and going to college I realized real quick that all the choices you make are for a reason. And, in my experience it is to meet people that will change your life…

To set the background, I grew up in very small town called Copan, OK, which is an hour North of Tulsa, OK right on the Kansas border. As a young lady all I wanted to do was graduate High School and go to a College far far away from home. So, I decided to attend Eastern Oklahoma State College with my high school best friend. This school was located in another small Oklahoma town called Wilburton, which is 3 hours from Copan down by the Arkansas border. This was no great College that all the kids in the surrounding high schools dreamed of going, but it was far away from home.

While there I met my best friend for life and through her ultimately I met Tiff. You see my BFF and I decided to go back to Straford, which was the town my BFF is from, for the weekend. You may ask why any college kid would want to go home for the weekend and they would tell their parents it’s because they miss them, but we went home so we could meet up with my BFF’s boyfriend at a hotel in once again another small town called Pauls Valley.

You see my BFF never dated anyone from Eastern and was known for her long distant boyfriends. Well this one defiantly fell into that category. The boyfriend went to a small junior college in Kansas. And the reason we were able to meet him at a hotel was because he was on his way to a college livestock judging contest. You may be asking how he was able to convince his judging coach to stay at this hotel and I to this day still don’t know…

Well, once at the Hotel my BFF and I get escorted to a room full of livestock judgers. My BFF and I get introduced to everyone, and then I got left in the room alone with all these strangers. If you find yourself asking what happened to my BFF and the Boyfriend I have no idea… All I know is that I was in a room full of complete strangers. In the room was the livestock judging coach, a very loud and opinionated girl from Canada, Tiff and some other random boy from Kansas. Needless to say Tiff and I hit it off and became close friends.

Tiff was a life saver that night and has become one of my all time closest friends. If I had chosen to go to just some junior college close to home I would have never met my BFF, and would have never went to some random hotel in Pauls Valley with her to meet a random livestock judging team were I met Tiff. So, like I said in the beginning of this story the choices you make are for a reason.