Let me just set this up for you.
What happens after high school is just a basic timeline.
You graduate and you have a graduation party.
People call you "high school graduate" for a couple weeks, and then suddenly in the midst of it all your title of "high school graduate" switches to "incoming college freshman."
You start buying items for your dorm, you meet other people going to the same school as you, and you start cleaning out your room so moving out isn't as big of a pain.
In the beginning it all almost felt natural.
It doesn't seem like what's happening is that big of a deal.
But then there's this moment. I know I'm not the only one that can attest to this because it happens to everyone.
In the middle of planning, cleaning, and moving there's one single moment where what's happening actually hits you.
I call this the "oh sh*t" moment.
This is the moment where all that has happened in those past few weeks actually settles within you. All that you've done and all that you've accomplished finally catches up to you. It's as if all that you've done was just a blur before.
So my moment happened a few days ago.
It wasn't that big of a deal. Things just got overwhelming and I just had to take a few moments to breathe. After that, I just kept moving forward.
What makes incoming freshmen most nervous is thinking that they're the only one walking into college nervous. Reality is, you're never going to be the only one nervous. Everyone actually is going through the same thing as you.
With that mentality, it makes pushing forward just a little bit easier.
As the summer continues on, I'm sure I still have plenty more "oh sh*t" moments to come. But the thing to always remember is at the end of the day, I'm not alone.
