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
