Everyday in the life of a “normal” human being leads to new experiences and challenges everyday. They might be small or they might be some of the biggest things of your life. As I have heard many times throughout my life, life is like a roller coaster and you never know where it is going to take you. In my junior year of high school, I had actually wrote a "This I Believe" essay which is where you write about what you believe in as a person. I ended up getting to write about the power of time and the power of events in that time. That was what I believed in and I had a lot of things to talk about on that topic. One of the main things I said was that time flows like water in a river, it always keeps going no matter what. It never stops moving and that’s how I see life and time in my eyes.
As time moves forward, new things come for you to face. For me at the moment, I am exactly a week away from going into my freshman year of college. It is a bit of a scary thing, but at the same time, there is a lot to be excited about. There is a new atmosphere, new people to meet, and even a new place besides your tiny hometown with a graduating class of about 60 (yes that’s right, 60). There is a lot going through my head as I am getting ready to move into my dorm, which I actually wasn’t expecting to do at all for my freshman year. In my mind since freshman year of high school, I was planning to go to my local community college that was considered ‘Grade 13’. This just means another year of high school pretty much. This past senior year of high school, I went and got to see a few things about other colleges where I would actually go away. After that, I went and actually toured a college and I knew that I wanted to be there. It just felt so right, like I belonged there. I had to go!
But, with wanting to go somewhere about two hours away from home comes with the price of leaving your family behind. For me, I come from a very strong family unit. We do just about everything together, so even thinking about leaving them is something very hard to even fathom. I love my parents and my two younger siblings, and I have been with them through everything. I absolutely love them all. They are the best things that my life has given me. Meanwhile, time must go on like the water in the river and move in day has been a day that I have been preparing to face.
I have been feeling sad for this day because of leaving my friends and especially my family. Then again, this day will be filled with many other emotions that I have been feeling throughout these past few weeks like excitement and nervousness. I am feeling excited to start this new life, but also nervous about starting this new life. Who really doesn’t get at least slightly nervous when starting something new, right? New things come with the nervous feeling or fear of starting them and also the excitement of starting them.
With these feelings all mixed together in my life with new things, I have truly learned that you, most of the time, just have to face new experiences in life head on when they come to you. When they come your way, take them head on. Seriously, just go for it and do the best you can with everything you do! As long as you are living and breathing, everything will be okay when facing new experiences.
