Hello, everybody. Welcome back to another edition of the I'm Tired podcast. I'm your host, Grace Valentine. I'm an author, blogger, speaker, and podcast hosts, but most importantly, I'm a friend. Today on the podcast, I have actually one of my good friends. And if you've been at any of the colleges that I travel to, you probably met her too,

because she's my favorite road trip, buddy. And we're going to talk about lowliness. So whether you're feeling lowly in college or in post grad or in high school, then this is for you. But Ketley, why don't you introduce yourself and say something about yourself, like the first day of school? I know, right? I'm like, oh, hi, my name is Katley. No, but for real. My name is Katley, like Grace said. I'm a 24-year-old grad student. I've been doing grad school online. So my second semester, absolutely love it. But with grad school, it'll be online. It's so funny because it really, you know, goes along with the loneliness thing. Like I have had to learn how to put myself more out there for my,

for my other cohort members, who were only along with the whole loneliness thing. Like I have had to learn how to put myself more out there

for my other cohort members who were only contacting like online. So it's been like the weirdest thing

of, you know, taking classes online only and like trying to like create this relationship with

people I'm only doing discussion post with and that we all know goes so far of like, wow,

great post, great insight. That post great insight that was great that

was great and that's literally all we have but um that's been super cool um yeah so that is basically my

life is just school work meeting up with friends i mean back home after college and like back home

in Orlando which has been so fun of just reconnecting with old friends but truly just you, you know, loving life and taking on with the fullest. No, I love that. And Ketley is the person that I bring on all my road trips for a reason. If I can, if they let me bring to people, I'm like, Ketley's coming with me because she can just so good at meeting friends. But I think that's cool you're already admitting yeah it's been hard doing online school like you understand that like the college

students do it makes it hard to put a face to the name when you're just looking at zoom you're like

how deep can I get like how can I even live out the gospel for this person and makes you wonder all

that but my favorite thing about Ketley is people will always ask how we became friends. And I always say I really don't know. No, literally. Yeah. Because I just think one day, I was like, this girl's just really acting like she's my friend. And so I don't know if you remember Ketley. But what I remember is just that sir. So we served at, well, I was on staff for a church and she was one of the volunteers and Kelly was a known girl that you could put her with any age group. You're like, we'd bounce around when we had gaps. It was like senior girls, maybe, 11th grade girls, maybe like six grade girls, who knows, we could do it. And she could do any age. But she came in early and she just sat next to me and I ended up telling her to

work at my summer camp because like, this girl's cool. But then afterwards, I was like, what was

her name? Like, she just acted like my best friend. I tried to text people like, anyone know what that girl's name was who was talking to me? Was like, hey, Grace, what's up? Do you remember that at all? I think I do.

Like I remember, okay, it was so funny.

You were using me to get a spot, right?

I really was.

I'm going to be honest.

Okay, this is what it was.

Okay, so it it was so funny. You were using me to get a spot, right?

I really was.

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