As time passes and days go by, you finish a semester to start another semester. You unpack your bags to pack again for college. You quit your summer job to find another. You leave your hometown friends to make new school friends. You leave your house to get an apartment. It all seems like you are closing a door but opening another. Everything is rushing and there’s no time for you to absorb all of it in. You (on the other side) are growing older which means you are about to finish college to live the adulthood life and have your career. Although some changes are good for us, but some might leave us feeling lost and thinking of how did the time go by so fast?
Change means you leave a certain environment to live in another. For me, it means I’m leaving my comfort zone to be in an unknown zone where I’ll have to find new friends. It is hard to accept the fact I’ll not be doing my normal routine schedule anymore but rather walk in a new unfamiliar place.
Somehow, the beginning of this change phase makes me not feel good in my own skin. It makes me feel I’m not a member at my house but rather a guest in strangers’ house. But with that all, you form a strong attachment to your family and friends as they are your only source of home, but sometimes we need to let go.
As much we all hate it, we’ll still have to go through it because without change there will be no new experience and no new adventures. And without these, we cannot learn how to act when we face challenges, and how to not make mistakes.
There’s nothing we could personally do to stop a change from happening. It will happen if we wish it or not, but what we can do is have faith. Having faith that change can be for the best. Maybe this change will be the better for us, and maybe it will provide us better opportunities in life.
But just like you and me, we are scared of the first day and of the first step. It is certainly not a fear of change, but rather a fear of unfamiliarity (the unknown life). But sometimes the best way to overcome it is just to take a deep breath.
