Life can get so busy.

We all have times in our lives when we never get a minute to sit down and do nothing, to go visit a friend who we haven't seen in what feels like forever or to even spend a night out at the movies. Our busy-ness extends up and up and we all know that feeling of when it hits a certain limit and you just can't get any busier. People think you're ignoring them but you really truly don't have any extra time to give. It's stressful and hectic and you feel like you're being crowded out of your head, out of your own life.

I'm here to advise you to take one minute (even if you can't fit it into your busy, busy schedule), and just appreciate the fact that you have so much happening in your life, so many people, so many resources, so much stimuli, that all your time has been filled up. Yes, you're busy, stressed, crowded, but you have things that are yours that you get to do, people who want to spend time with you. You're getting out into the world and making a name for yourself and right now, you don't have time to do anything else. And that's OK.

Be busy, stumble around, appreciate it, because in a few months you'll find your time opening up, and even though that freedom to use your day however you want to use it will feel so good, you'll miss the days when you were the most productive, most chaotic, most demanded version of yourself.

Appreciate the busy-ness, appreciate the freedom, appreciate it all - don't forget that this is your life. Don't look to milestones in the future or memories in the past when your life really begins. Appreciate right now. Try not to forget about the time in between big things, when you're stressed or when you're bored, because that stuff counts. That stuff is just as important in your life as your graduation, your wedding day, the day you get promoted, and the list goes on. Appreciate the in-between, and appreciate the busy-ness.