Being a college student is not easy. Not even in the slightest. I mean, no one ever said it was going to be easy. In fact, everyone pretty much said that college was going to be tough and that you'd have to work really hard, but I'm going for it anyway. It's funny cause anytime anyone said how tough it was going to be, it never really sank in until about two years ago when I started as a freshman at my college. Now every weekend it's like homework overload and I fully understand the true meaning behind the concept of "not understanding until you experience." And not only am I going to school, but I'm also working and sometimes trying to find that balance can be really tough because being a college student means that you're on a tight budget whether you commute or dorm.

There are times where it can get extremely overwhelming, and there are times where it feels like the whole world is gonna collapse on me because of the weight of every due date and every exam getting heavier and heavier. If I'm being honest, there have been so many times where I just felt like all I wanted do was quit and I'm sure that I speak for many others when I say that I just felt like I couldn't do it anymore. But here's the thing. Did I get this far just so that I could quit now? Am I really going to throw away every sleepless night of studying, every tear of stress, every bit of frustration, or that unbelievable feeling when I saw that test grade that was proof of all my efforts? Not a chance. If I decided to quit now, I'd be throwing all of my hard work away and I won't do that to myself.

Now, this doesn't mean that it's a bad thing for someone to end college to pursue something else that they really want to do, or that anyone has to feel bad because they don't feel the need to go to college to meet their dreams. If anything I respect anyone who just "does what they have to do" and goes for what they want. But the dreams I have require finishing college in order to catch them, and I won't cut myself short from getting to where I want to be.

Like someone very special to me said, "college is a reflection of life", and one thing I've learned is what I said before; no one said it was gonna be easy. So, my message to you is this: It can be very easy to fall under self doubt because of feeling helpless or that it feels like no matter what you do, you're never going to get there, but you can't look at it that way and you can't think like that. Switch out the words "I can't" with "I can". Push yourself to do more and surprise yourself with what you've accomplished. Don't settle for just anything. Motivate yourself to do what you want. And once you reach all of these goals, don't just stop there. Set some new goals for yourself because everyone is capable achieving so much and that includes you.

I hope that if you're reading this and connected with everything I said that I was able to inspire you and you can take this message with you and that you can feel like superman or wonder woman conquering any obstacle that gets in the way including yourself, because it's like they say, everyone is their own worst enemy. And once your kick that part of you away, the world is yours.