I'm The Author Of My Life...

My name is Shannon, but that's not who I am. I am made up of years worth of lessons, mistakes and experiences. I am what other people have made of me and taught me; what I have taken from them and molded into my own. I am made up of a little part of every person I've ever met. I am my passion for life, my love for other people and every song and lyric that's ever made me want to give a damn.

My name means nothing. It doesn't tell you who I am, nor what I've done or what I'm capable of doing. You won't remember me for my name, but you will remember the impact I have upon your life; you'll take a part of that away with you, and that part will add to who you are.

My name is merely to help distinguish me from all the other souls who wander around this Earth; ironic that mine is a very popular name and there are billions named likewise.

Call me something that means something to you. Something that represents who I am, something that is attributed to me and only me in your life. Because I am so much more than just a name.

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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

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People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness.
Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I ended up where I needed to be.
~Douglas Adams