“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished"

 Not a post since January...woah, guess I've been too "busy" to blog it out. It's taken me almost three entire months (from the beginning of the semester until now) to realize how to manage my time during my last semester of College. It's difficult to even know where to start with my life epiphanies and how things have changed. New internship, new courses, and new perspective. 

Words can't describe these three

:)

Not to get all sentimental, but life as a college student rocks. As busy and shitty it may be at times, think about ALL the life lessons you've learned in the last four years of existence on this earth, my god, I could go on forever. I think most importantly, the value and belief that was reinforced to me most was understanding yourself before anyone else. If we really reach inside to the core of who and what we are and why we are here, everything will fall into place. This goes along with the title of this post, written in the "Tao te Ching" by Lao Tzu. Life's pace may change at times, but it is all the same for the most part. We live day to day trying to improve ourselves through various aspects, but life goes on and it all works out, bad or good. 

      I guess it is hard to write a post about life lessons learned in the last few years, but I guess I will write a few that personally hit home for me:

New and old friends reunited

 1. Be yourself...always. 

 2. You are not able to give yourself to others until you love yourself.

 3. Save time for yourself, everything else around you will fall into place.

 4. Be assertive.

 5. Being future oriented is good, but being in the present is more    important.

 6. Today is a new day.

 7. Take risks.

 8. We don't need materials for happiness; we need compassion, love, and  self-acceptance.

 9. Believe you are capable of doing the "impossible."

The beautiful children of Hope Community
Orphanage that taught me so much

10. Dreams become reality with motivation and confidence.

11. Don't be scared to show vulnerability.

12. Be open about yourself with others.

13. Go for it.

14. Understanding your passion only comes when you begin to love and really know yourself.

15. Self-reflect daily.

16. Step out of your comfort zone.

17. Smile.

18. There's an up to every down.

19. Don't be scared to reach out to others for yourself.

20. Love who you are. 

Just a little snapshot of aspects in life I have improved on and grown from in the last couple of years. This is not the end all be all. Life's new chapter is about to open up. 

My plan: no plan, just live & be. 

Beginning of the Beginning

       My goodness....this year has begun better than I would of ever expected. First, a weekend in NYC with my best friends in the entire world. Next, a weekend up to Burlington, reuniting with old friends that I haven't seen in half a year is amazing. The best part of it is the outlook on life that I have taken, and seeing things in this familiar place in such a different light. It makes me emotional thinking about how prime this time is. The last semester in college, it is that quintecential grey area. In between this "fun/not real life" & "the real world." The question is, what is this real world? It is what we make of it of course! I really am realizing it, and living it because of this "pressure" students feel to find that job after graduation. I am doing the best I can in school right now, starting an internship that will teach me things I know I will need, because that is real world life right? Yes, it is, but the "real world" is living with these "real people" you choose as your friends and acquaintances. I've been living in this real world for the past twenty one years. There is no such thing as fake and real life. I find myself chatting with friends when we are in euphoria of happiness asking "Is this real life?"Seriously though, it IS real life. With that said, I guess I'm not ever going to enter this "real world" if that does even exist. 

America's society puts this pressure on us. I want to live my life the way I want, and I am not going to care anymore about what is right or wrong, or what you think of my "wasting" of time. I want to live, that's it...and how we choose to live is up to one person, and that is  y o u, and only you. It is only you in the end, and what you do with your life is not up to anyone else. People will constantly judge...but if the world hypothetically ended this year, would you really care what those people thought when you started living for yourself and no one else? Didn't think so. 


A wise man once said:
"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.”
- Dr. Seuss