How many times have you heard the words, ‘these are the best days of your life’? If you’re like me, more than you can possibly count. If I’m studying and I whisper to myself about how much I wish school would just be over already, it’s like a trigger, and any adult in a five mile radius will come running and say, “You don’t know what you’re saying, stop wishing the time away, these are the best days of your life!”
Yeah, I get it.
Except are they? Are these years) where I’m living off of granola bars, stale cereal, and anxiety) the best days of my life? Are these years when I’m having occasional tearful breakdowns and trying to figure out who I am the best days of my life? I sure hope not. I hope that each year gets better and better for me. I hope that in 20 years I won’t be sitting at a job that I hate looking back on my time in college and wishing I could do it all over again. I hope that I’ll love where I’m at.
Just because I’m not saying that these are the best days of my life doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy them. I love being in college right now. I don’t want the years to speed up just like I don’t want them to backtrack. I want to be right where I am in this very moment.
I don’t want to go through life waiting for the next thing to happen, hoping that it will be better than what’s going on now. I also don’t want to constantly look over my shoulder at the years that have past and wonder why I took them for granted. I want to live for right now.
There are going to be ups and downs at each point in your life. Stop thinking about what could be or what should’ve been and live for right now. Live for this very minute. If we don’t remember to live in the present, we don’t really live.
