To the end of another school year:
In a blink of an eye, in a flash and just a movement, you're gone. Time and time again I wonder how it went so fast. And how being an adult is coming up so quickly. With only one week left, and almost halfway into the actual year, a little part of me panics. I just started understanding how to do my laundry, how will I do my taxes? I'm still on a joint credit card with my parents. And to think one day soon I'll be counting down the actual years, the decades and centuries instead of just another fall or spring semester. A little part of me nervously cries thinking about paying for an apartment, a car, a house, a dog, a cell phone, a microwave! Even though microwaveable dinners are not adult and can't consistently happen until you're senior citizen-aged.
As I move closer and closer to graduation, I come up with more questions. Will I be happy with my life? Will I have a nice paying job? Will I like where I live? Will I be friends with my coworkers? Will I have that corgi named Napoleon and bearded dragon named Putin?
But, I guess that's the thrill of life. Or of not being able to see the future. As of right now, it's more of a trigger than a thrill.
Looking back on my school year, I've learned a lot. And most of what I learned wasn't from that one philosophy or psychology class. It was more from life experiences, conversations with friends, peers, teachers and other adults. Conversations with people aspiring to the same things as you, competing for the same jobs or people with completely opposite interests. I've learned to live in the present and enjoy each hour you have. I've learned to listen to others because you never know what they've experienced or lived through. I've learned to accept the good and bad because everyone has it. I've learned to let go - let go of stress, of anxiety, of bad people, of bad situations.
So maybe school has taught me some things, like how to communicate with a variety of people and how to write a six to eight page research paper in MLA format. But, overall, it's others that have taught me the most.
To end another school year, I'll end with this - be grateful for your opportunities, don't take experiences or people for granted, live to the fullest and take a class on how to do your takes because seriously, I have no idea how to do taxes.
