My Name is Jali

So I'm reading through the book of 2 Chronicles, and I came across a vaguely familiar passage. 2 Chr. 10: 3-18 I won't paste the whole thing, but the short version of it is that the people of Israel came to King Rehoboam (son of King Solomon and grandson of King David) and asked him not to work them as hard as his father had. Rehoboam was unsure of how to respond so he told them to come back to him in 3 days and he'll give them an answer. He went to his father's advisers first and they told him that if he lessened the people's workload, they would love and serve him. I guess that wasn't good enough for him (or his ego) because he decided to ask his childhood friends for advice. They told him to work the people even harder and to be even harsher on them than his father was. He took that advice and caused all of Israel to rebel against him. He tried to send an overseer to force them to work and they killed him. Rehoboam ended up running to Jerusalem to save hi...

So I'm sitting in my parents' home in Brooklyn, and I just started to think about how far I've come in the last year. It's not hard to see what sparked this trip down memory lane, since I just came back from visiting my Alma mater, which I have not seen since I graduated almost a year ago. Anyway, I'm thinking back and I am amazed by how much I have changed from the person I was a year ago. In March 2011, I was: In love with someone who had a curious affection for me at best Waiting to hear back from 3 graduate schools I had applied to, and VERY nervous about getting in Worrying about my grandfather because I knew at any given moment he could get sick again and go back to the hospital At a school that I never wanted to go to in the first place and counting the days until I could finally graduate and leave for good Trying to make sense of my life and experiencing NO success whatsoever! In March 2012, I am: No longer in love, although I will always have a sof...