Personally, I’ve always been someone who has been more comfortable with what’s normal. From the way I live to the people I interact with and where I go. All of that is a part of my routine, and I’m not one that welcomes change all that happily.

I thought I was excited about school. I thought I was excited to be away from my family and have the opportunity to start over.

But that wasn’t the case at all.

The second I got to campus was the second I realized that everything was about to change for me, and I flipped. I’m a homebody and extremely close to my family so the idea of being four hours away and in a place that I didn’t know was terrifying.

I had no idea what to do with myself when my parents left.

Long story short, I realized that change wasn’t all that bad. I met so many amazing new people, was taught by some pretty awesome professors and even learned a few life lessons along the way.

Now I know that I'm transferring, and you might be thinking, "she's talking to me about accepting change when she's moving back home to go to a different school?"

Change can come in all different shapes and sizes. The decision for me to officially transfer was honestly one of the hardest decisions for me to make.

I didn't know whether God was calling me to stay at the school I started at or whether the signs were pointing in a completely different direction.

I had also grown accustomed to the way of living at my school. I found a spot in the library that I loved to study in, I woke up early enough to beat the Chick-fil-a breakfast line and I even got good at driving long distances because if you wanted to do anything in the town I lived in you had to be willing to drive a little.

I had gotten so used to it that it became my normal way of living, and the fact that I would leave again would mean another whole time of change.

I’ve come to the realization that this life is all about the choices we make. We choose to have a certain perspective, and we choose to make certain decisions. Life is too short to dwell on the changes that it brings along.