American Dream

Watching girls and boys cheerleading and how hard they work day after day for hours you can see how dedicated my sister and her team are.
I am so proud of my sister and how she has grown up as a young lady.
Going for something she loves to do.
I can see how I love to go travel and support her.

When they work hard from morning to night they put 120%  in their practices and they
get to have free time to go swim or go to the parks.
It is so amazing how a team can come together and look awesome on the stage they
 perform on and be one of the finalist.
My sister lives and breaths cheer day in and day out.

Mismatch Negativity

All my life growing up I felt like I wasn't adding up to family expectations like being a certain weight. Not that i was over weight all my life.Everyone was telling me, "Madeline you should be exercising everyday." I usually try to exercise as much as I can. I always heard that too much exercise is bad.
Why can't some people understand? Does it seem like Americans these days are brain washed of everyone especially women these days have to be skinny.

It really hurts me that my family can't just tell me the positive thing I'm doing and not be so negative. Sometimes I feel like going to a therapist will help.

Sometimes I feel like the only people that give me good positive things are my dad,brother, friends, fiancé, and fiancé's family.

I just hate criticism from people you love just shoot you down and even when you are trying to look at the positive things in life.