I have come to the realization that the older I get, the faster time goes by. It seems like just yesterday that I moved into my new apartment and started my last semester as a college student. Graduating is definitely bittersweet for me. I've come to love school and I very much enjoyed the past few years of my life, but I am also excited for this change in my life. But as I already know, before I can wrap my mind around everything happening in my life, I will be graduated and on to the next season in my life. Where has the time gone?
Don't get me wrong, I'm so ready for this change, but I never imagined i'd reach this place so soon. This May marks the fifth year of my college career. If someone would have told me the day I graduated high school that i'd be in school for another five years, I would have told them they're crazy. But here I am. After May, I will have graduated college twice.
I can only imagine how much more fleeting the days will be when I am older. I'm still fairly young but it already seems like i'm running out of time. Out of time for what? I'm not exactly sure. Someone once said, "with everyday that passes, we are one day closer to the day of our death." Although that is a very depressing way to look at it, it is quite truthful. And not knowing when that last day will be, it's crucial that we live every day we get as if it may in fact be our last.
I will never forget the night before I turned 16. It was the first time I realized that I will never be 15 again. Before that day, I was so eager to turn 16 that I completely disregarded being 15. Well, that night I was talking to one of my sister and I was telling her how excited I was to FINALLY be 16. She said something so simple yet it shook me to the point of tears. "After tomorrow, you will never be 15 again." I never looked at it that way and after hearing those words, I regretted every moment that I desperately wanted to be 16 already because I realized I had completely neglected and lessened the value of being 15.
Every day we wake up to is a new chance we get to live the life we love. We ARE running out of time and our lives are too short to live in regret, in fear, in shame, and in worry. Life is messy, yes, but it is so beautiful as well. There is beauty in everything but it's a choice we have to make everyday if we want to seek and ultimately find that beauty or if we will just give into the "glass in half empty" way of seeing this world. It's up to us.
Don't get me wrong, I'm so ready for this change, but I never imagined i'd reach this place so soon. This May marks the fifth year of my college career. If someone would have told me the day I graduated high school that i'd be in school for another five years, I would have told them they're crazy. But here I am. After May, I will have graduated college twice.
I can only imagine how much more fleeting the days will be when I am older. I'm still fairly young but it already seems like i'm running out of time. Out of time for what? I'm not exactly sure. Someone once said, "with everyday that passes, we are one day closer to the day of our death." Although that is a very depressing way to look at it, it is quite truthful. And not knowing when that last day will be, it's crucial that we live every day we get as if it may in fact be our last.
I will never forget the night before I turned 16. It was the first time I realized that I will never be 15 again. Before that day, I was so eager to turn 16 that I completely disregarded being 15. Well, that night I was talking to one of my sister and I was telling her how excited I was to FINALLY be 16. She said something so simple yet it shook me to the point of tears. "After tomorrow, you will never be 15 again." I never looked at it that way and after hearing those words, I regretted every moment that I desperately wanted to be 16 already because I realized I had completely neglected and lessened the value of being 15.
Every day we wake up to is a new chance we get to live the life we love. We ARE running out of time and our lives are too short to live in regret, in fear, in shame, and in worry. Life is messy, yes, but it is so beautiful as well. There is beauty in everything but it's a choice we have to make everyday if we want to seek and ultimately find that beauty or if we will just give into the "glass in half empty" way of seeing this world. It's up to us.
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