"Everything will be okay in the end, if it's not okay, it's not the end."
This quote has been on my mind a lot lately, as I have been struggling with some things. The big thing that I have been struggling with is school, but not in the traditional sense. I owed the school some money, so I couldn't sign up for classes. I couldn't apply for my loans to pay the money I owed the school because I couldn't sign up for classes. It was a ridiculous and terrible cycle. Eventually I was able to find the people I needed to talk to, and started to get things sorted out. Holds were supposed to be removed so I could register for classes, but they weren't. The deadline to add classes passed, so I had to petition to add my classes. The petition passed, but there was still a hold, so I had to get in contact with the collections folks at school and get the hold lifted. Then I finally got into the classes I needed, then we were able to get the ball rolling on the financial aid, and hopefully after all the back and forth everything will be squared away. The point of the story is this. It was a struggle that lasted a month and a half and there were several points where it felt like nothing would work out. It was difficult to keep pushing and I was worried that I might not make it. I thought I was going to lose my financial aid, get kicked out of school, and still owe the University a couple thousand dollars. But those times that I felt that way, I knew that it wasn't really the end. There was still more that I could do and I could keep persevering. It couldn't be the end because everything wasn't okay yet. Now as things are finally coming to an end, I know that the stress and frustration I felt during the whole process were just a passing thing. The end must be near, because, at least in regards to this ordeal, everything is turning out okay.
On Sunday, I took a little trip up into the mountains east of Heber City. There is a national forest and several trails that go all over the place. I took a trail that went up Heber Mountain and was rewarded by an awesome view of Heber Valley that stretched all the way to Mt. Timpanogos. Here's the picture:
For more pictures from the trip, here is the link to the Picasa Album.
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