Learning how to take "maybe," as an answer might be harder than it seems.
I heard a rumor last spring semester that the College of Charleston and MUSC were considering a merger which would be pretty cool…except for the fact that CofC would be renamed “Charleston University George Street Campus.” Why would that even be an option to rename the College? Seriously, the College is older than the United States, you can’t just change the name. Why change a perfectly good thing? I could sit here and criticize whoever came up with the absurd idea to change the name of a historical landmark, but I have just realized I am no different.
My whole life has been a series of questions and for the majority of those questions there has been a yes or no answer. Sometimes the answer took some time to come by, but it has always been a clear “yes,” or “no.” Should I say this? Should I start a blog? Should I fall in love? Should I go to a different school? The questions are never-ending, my life has always consisted of yes or no. So you could imagine my confusion when, for the first time in my life, I’m faced with a question that has no clear answer. Should I stay with the person I love even if it's hard in college? I’m slowly but surely learning that in relationships that exist because two people are in love with each other no question is so quickly answered with “yes,” or “no”, especially when it’s your first love. In fact the answer always seems to be “maybe so,” or in other words, time. I’m learning that time is the answer, which is a strange concept to me and I don’t know why.
Not everything is so easily right or wrong, yes or no, not everything has a clear answer. For those questions that leave you awake at night, for those questions that distract you periodically through the day the only clear answer is time. But even time can’t always give you a clear answer and that’s okay, some decisions are hard to make. It is not in my nature to simply accept things as they come and carry on blindly into the future, I like to at least know which direction I’m headed in. Although direction is important, learning to go with the flow and see where time takes you is just as equally important.
